An introduction to twenty Persian musical texts written in India which included both Persian and Indian music

This article focuses on recording Persian music by the German record companies during the interwar period and social, economic, and political motivations behind it.

This article focuses on the history of European military music in Persia and shows how this history was twisted by French/Artesian patriotism and self-promotion. In order to provide an alternative history, this article explores various sources and introduces several European musicians who worked in Persia in the nineteenth century, including the…[Read more]

An upper-level seminar on contemporary negotiations of Germany‘s Cold War and National Socialist pasts, as reflected in literature, film, architecture, visual art, and political discourse from 1989 to the present. (As taught at UCLA, 2013.)

Seminar on conceptions of “race” in classical German thinkers (including Leibniz, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Kleist, A. von Humboldt), and their reception in twentieth-century North American, Francophone African, French, and Caribbean political thought. (As taught at Princeton University, 2013)

A delineation and critique of the posthumous construction Goethe and Kant into rival “antipodes” within German intellectual culture in the early twentieth century.

“Senghor’s Other Europe,” Savannah Review, vol. 1 (November 2012)

When examining a particular creative work, one has to be aware of a number of hidden relationships embedded within that work as a whole. Who created this work? What was their goal in doing so (if there ever was an established goal)? How am I supposed to interpret this work, given the nature in which it was created? Going down these paths of…[Read more]

ABSTRACT Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk’s innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference between con…[Read more]

This article presents the results of implementing a musical/multimodal/multilingual pedagogical approach to foster literacy practices in an ESL composition classroom at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus. Based on the students’ written reflections, multimodal texts, and subsequent interviews, this qualitative research study hi…[Read more]