Jarek Paul Ervin
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About

Jarek Ervin

I am a writer, editor, and teacher.


I went to school at Temple University and University of Virginia. In addition to working as an instructor at Temple, UVa, Westminster Choir College, and Rowan University, I’ve been an editor for iaspm-us.net and a research intern at Library of Congress.


My writing has appeared in a number of places, including Popular Music & Society, Popular Music, In the Muse, and iaspm-us.net.


See Writing and Blog for samples of my work.

Contact

Mail:

Boyer College of Music & Dance
Temple University
2001 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Electronic:

E-mail
Twitter
Academia.edu

Design:

Web design by BJ Cantlupe.
Headshot by Zave Smith.
Background from NYPL Digital Collections.

Vita

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Music – University of Virginia (May 2017)
  • MA, Music – University of Virginia (December 2015)
  • MM, Music History – Temple University (May 2012)
  • BM, Music Performance – Temple University, magna cum laude (May 2010)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  • I Hold the Key to the Sea of Possibilities’: Patti Smith Group." Punk & Post-Punk. October, 2019.
  • "Punk and the Concrete City." Enviro-History. April 22, 2019.
  • "Westworld's Choice." Jacobin. May 13, 2018.
  • "Tim Lawrence's Life & Death on the New York Dance Floor." iaspm-us.net. November 1, 2017.
  • Review of One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock, by Dave Laing. Popular Music and Society 39:04 (October, 2016): 476-478.
  • Review of Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool, and Sheffield, 1975-80, by Nick Crossley. Popular Music 35:02 (May, 2016): 291-293.


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Peter L. Paige Grant – The Serpentine Society (2016-2017)
  • PhD Fellowship – University of Virginia (2012-2017)
  • Battestin Fellowship – Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (2016)
  • Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2015)
  • Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Award – UVa (2015)
  • Milton Sutter Memorial Award – Temple University (2012)
  • Dean's Grant – Temple University (2011 & 2012)
  • Frances Hutton Memorial Award – Temple University (2011)

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Roundtable: The Spirit of ’77: Punk at 40. International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH (February 23-26, 2017).
  • Historical Materialism and Popular Music Studies. AMS/SMT. Vancouver, BC (November 3-6, 2016).
  • ’Are You a Boy or Are You A Girl?’ New York Punk in the 1970s. IASPM- US Annual Conference. Calgary, AB (May 28-30, 2016).
  • Lukács, Mahler, and the Antinomies of Musical Meaning. South Central Graduate Music Consortium. UNC Chapel Hill (September 19-20, 2014).
  • On Art's Right to Exist. Left Forum. New York, NY (May 30-June 1, 2014).

For full CV, click here.

Blog

  • Mar 1, 2019 Revenge Of The Aesthetic: Velvet Buzzsaw
  • Feb 13, 2019 City As Subject In The Wire
  • Mar 29, 2018 How To Build A Night School
  • Mar 22, 2018 Teaching Update
  • Feb 9, 2018 Punk As The Horror Of Nonidentity
  • Oct 14, 2017 Blade Runner 2049
  • Feb 21, 2017 The Spirit Of 77: Punk At 40
  • Nov 4, 2016 Historical Materialism & Popular Music Studies
  • Oct 27, 2016 On Love And Labor
  • Oct 16, 2016 Genre & Historical Materialism
  • Sep 16, 2016 Against Contorting Bodies
  • Aug 23, 2016 Best Of Mahler
  • Aug 8, 2016 Best Of Bond
  • Jul 17, 2016 Critique Unlimited
  • Jul 11, 2016 Punk Rock Puppet Show
  • Jul 3, 2016 Obligatory Inaugural Post

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Writing

"Tim Lawrence's Life & Death on the New York Dance Floor" (iaspm-us.net)


"Review of One Chord Wonders" (Popular Music & Society)


"Westworld's Choice" (Jacobin)


For more work, click here.

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