Alexander Carpenter, PhD, MA, BMus

Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities
Director, Faculty of Arts - Wirth Institute

Personal Website: https://alexandercarpenter.academia.edu/

Contact

Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities
Email
acarpent@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 679-1571
Address
Founders' Hall
4901 46 Ave
Camrose AB
T4V 2R3

Director, Faculty of Arts - Wirth Institute
Email
acarpent@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-4326
Address
300-B Arts Building (Main & Conv Hall)
113 St and 91 Ave
Edmonton AB
T6G 2E6

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Musicology popular music film music aesthetics psychoanalysis zombies


About

I am a musicologist, music critic, and rock musician. I studied voice and music history at Brock University, music criticism at McMaster University, and historical musicology at the University of Toronto, where I earned a PhD. At Augustana, I have served as Director of Music and as Chair of Fine Arts and Humanities.

At present, I am the Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the Edmonton campus of the University of Alberta.



Research

Research areas: Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, fin-de siecle-Vienna, popular music, music and psychoanalysis, zombies in popular culture, film music. 



Teaching

Teaching areas: music history/musicology, cultural history, popular music, aesthetics, theory/harmony, interdisciplinary studies


Courses

AUMUS 170 - Tuning In: An Introduction to Music

Development of listening approaches and techniques for understanding and appreciating a variety of Western and non-Western music, and an examination of the ideologies that prompt the sampling of such music. Music studied includes Western art music, African music, First Nations music, North Indian music, and popular music.


AUMUS 224 - Music from the Ancient to Baroque Eras

Study of Western European art music from the ancient Greeks to the late Baroque period, in the context of general cultural history.


AUMUS 225 - Music from the Classical Era to the Present Day

Study of western European art music from the mid-18th century to the 20th century, in the context of general cultural history.


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Featured Publications

Jerome Melancon, Alexander Carpenter

Journal of Zizek Studies. 2017 January; 11 (3):203-228


Alexander Carpenter

Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music. 2010 January; 30 (2):5-24


Alexander Carpenter

Journal of Popular Culture. 46 (6):1231-1252


Alexander Carpenter

Popular Music and Society. 40 (3):261-273