TCC 43. Public Music Theory and Conferences - Professor J. Daniel Jenkins
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features music theorist Professor J. Daniel Jenkins. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Jenkins about his background, time as a regional conference president, the past and future of public music theory and much more!
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Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
Contact:
acdzurilla@yahoo.com
941-773-1394
Professor J. Daniel Jenkins
Music Theorist
He/Him
J. Daniel Jenkins is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Public Music, and Experiential Learning and Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on twentieth-century music, music theory pedagogy, and public music theory. He is president of Music Theory Southeast, the editor of the SMT-V videocast journal, and a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory.
Email: dannyjenkins@sc.edu
