Jarek Paul Ervin
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About

Jarek Ervin

I am a writer, editor, and teacher.


I currently work as Managing Editor for Alternative Press magazine. In the past, I was an editor for iaspm-us.net. Additionally, I worked as a teacher for a number of years, offering courses at Temple, UVa, Westminster Choir College, and Rowan University. I went to Temple University and University of Virginia and was also a research intern at Library of Congress.


My writing has appeared in a number of places, including Alternative Press, 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
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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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