Robert Fink
Robert Fink focuses on music after 1965, with special interests in minimalism, popular music, post-modernism and the canon, music and urban space, and music in Los Angeles. Repeating Ourselves, a study of American minimal music as a cultural practice, appeared in 2005 under the imprint of the University of California. Other interests include music and technology, sound recording, and the music of Stravinsky. His work appears in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, American Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Popular Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, ECHO: a music-centered journal, and the collections Beyond Structural Listening and Rethinking Music. Before coming to UCLA, he taught at the Eastman School of Music (1992 - 1997).
Professor Fink’s UCLA lecture course on “The History and Practice of Electronic Dance Music” was the first of its kind at a major university; it was named the “Best College Pop Music Class” of 2002 by Spin Magazine. He also lectures on subjects as diverse as 1960s soul music and 19th-century romantic opera. Professor Fink is a frequent public speaker on contemporary art music in Los Angeles, presenting lectures in recent seasons at Disney Hall, the Getty Center, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In Fall 2006 he was a visiting professor of Music at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Professor Fink also has professional experience as a musicological expert in copyright litigation, including informal consulting, written reports, and legal depositions. For rates and availability, please contact him via email.
Professor Fink’s UCLA lecture course on “The History and Practice of Electronic Dance Music” was the first of its kind at a major university; it was named the “Best College Pop Music Class” of 2002 by Spin Magazine. He also lectures on subjects as diverse as 1960s soul music and 19th-century romantic opera. Professor Fink is a frequent public speaker on contemporary art music in Los Angeles, presenting lectures in recent seasons at Disney Hall, the Getty Center, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In Fall 2006 he was a visiting professor of Music at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Professor Fink also has professional experience as a musicological expert in copyright litigation, including informal consulting, written reports, and legal depositions. For rates and availability, please contact him via email.
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Books by Robert Fink
ISBN 9781472473707
This book will be the first edited volume on repetition in 20th- and 21st- century popular music. As such, it offers a multi-faceted view of the subject. The wide-ranging forms and use of repetition - from large repetitive structures to micro repetitions, and even to drones - are explored in relation to both specific and large-scale issues and contexts. Over and Over brings together a selection of original texts by leading authors in a field which is, as yet, little explored. Aimed at both specialists and neophytes, it aims to shed important new light on one of the fundamental phenomena of music of our times.
Papers by Robert Fink
ISBN 9781472473707
This book will be the first edited volume on repetition in 20th- and 21st- century popular music. As such, it offers a multi-faceted view of the subject. The wide-ranging forms and use of repetition - from large repetitive structures to micro repetitions, and even to drones - are explored in relation to both specific and large-scale issues and contexts. Over and Over brings together a selection of original texts by leading authors in a field which is, as yet, little explored. Aimed at both specialists and neophytes, it aims to shed important new light on one of the fundamental phenomena of music of our times.
Sept 15: It Ain't Us, Babe
Sept 22: The Dilemma of the "Postmodern Avant-Garde"
Sept 29: (Don't) Leave It to Bieber