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Benjamin Piekut
BornMarch 1975
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationColumbia University (Ph.D.), Mills College (MA), Hampshire College (BA)
💼 Occupation
Musicologist
Notable workHenry Cow: The World Is a Problem (2019) Actor-Networks in Music History: Clarifications and Critiques (2014) Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and its Limits (2011) Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane (2010)
🌐 WebsiteBenjamin D. Piekut at Cornell University

Benjamin Piekut is an American musicologist specializing in experimental music and the intersections of music, culture, and politics. He is currently a professor of music at Cornell University, where he serves as the chair of the Department of Music.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Benjamin Piekut earned his Bachelor of Arts at Hampshire College, where he studied music and philosophy. He subsequently earned his M.A. in composition at Mills College. He studied for two years at the University of California, San Diego, and later received his Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University in 2008.[2][3] His dissertation, titled "Testing, testing…: New York experimentalism 1964," was advised by composer and musicologist George E. Lewis.[4]

Career[edit]

After graduating from Columbia in 2008, Piekut became a lecturer in music at the University of Southampton that same year. He remained at Southampton until 2011, at which point he became an assistant professor of music at Cornell University. Following a single-semester stint as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014, Piekut earned tenure at Cornell and was promoted to the status of Associate Professor.[5] He currently serves as chair of the Department of Music.[6]

Piekut's 2010 article "Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane," co-authored with Jason Stanyek, was named one of MIT Press’s “50 Most Influential Articles” across disciplines,[7] [8] and as of 2023 is listed as one of The Drama Review's most-read articles.[9] "Deadness" also won the 2011 Outstanding Article award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for "brilliantly extend[ing] debates in theatre and performance studies about liveness, presence, archives, remains, temporality, history, and futurity into new realms."[10] [11] Piekut's 2019 book Henry Cow: The World is a Problem, an analysis and biography of the English experimental rock group Henry Cow, received a Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock or Popular Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.[12][13]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  2. "Benjamin Piekut: Alumni". The Department of Music: Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  3. "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  4. Piekut, Benjamin (2008). Testing, testing…: New York experimentalism 1964. New York, NY. Search this book on
  5. Piekut, Benjamin. "Curriculum vitae". Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  6. "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  7. "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  8. "Benjamin Piekut: Alumni". The Department of Music: Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  9. "MIT Press Direct: TDR/The Drama Review". MIT Press Direct. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  10. "Past Awardees". Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  11. "Benjamin Piekut wins outstanding article award". Cornell Chronicle. August 25, 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  12. "Henry Cow: The World is a Problem". Duke University Press. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  13. Gourgouris, Stathis (August 9, 2020). "The World as a Problem Never Fully Solved". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 29 May 2023.

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