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Blair Bohannan Kaneshiro
Adjunct Professor, Music
Casual - Non-Exempt, Research Staff - OtherBioBlair Kaneshiro is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music and Research & Development Associate in the Graduate School of Education. She completed the BA in Music; MA in Music, Science, and Technology; MS in Electrical Engineering; and PhD in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics, all from Stanford. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford (Music), Research Scientist at Stanford School of Medicine (Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery), and has held industry roles at Shazam and Smule. Research interests: Multivariate EEG decoding, ecologically valid stimuli, musical engagement, user studies, music information retrieval.
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Charles Kronengold
Assistant Professor of Music
BioSpecial Fields: Music since World War II; American Popular Music; Film and Media Theory; Comparative and Counter-Modernities; Music and Poetry. Current research concerns the ways that modern artistic genres condition, depict, embody and help to transform the activity of thinking.
Articles and book-chapters published and forthcoming on Schoenberg, John Cage and Elliott Carter, soul, funk and disco, urban cinema, and such philosophical subjects as composers’ intentions, the role of accidents in theory, Theodor Adorno’s aesthetics, and the relevance of African American music to current debates about the "post-secular". Completing two books, Live Genres in Late Modernity and Different Methods, Different Signs: Crediting Thinking in Soul and Dance Music.
Doctoral Fellowship at the UC-Humanities Research Institute; Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University.
Taught music, film and cultural theory at Wayne State University. Undergraduate courses include World Music and Globalized Culture (Stanford), The Soul Tradition (Stanford), History of Music: 1800 to the Present (Wayne State), Music and Representation (Wayne State), Ethics and Communication (Wayne State). Graduate courses include Genres and Politics in the Late-Modern Work (Stanford), Analyzing Modern Song (Wayne State), Music and Urban Film (Wayne State), Sensing Thinking (Cornell).