Tom Johnson
Music Theory PhD Student
I am a second year PhD student. My current research interests include the intersection of semiotics and genre in pop/rock music. My MA thesis (University of Washington, 2013) was a smorgasbord of analyses on music ranging from Stockhausen’s Kreuzspiel to mashups. Find my website with more recent work here: https://tjohnson.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Contact
Education
University of Washington, MA, Music Theory (June 2013)
Colorado College, BA, Physics (May 2009)
Positions
Conferences
May 2015 – “Mashups and the Mediation of Multimedia Meaning.”
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Ca, University of Ottawa, ON.
November 2014 – “Mashups, Meaning, and Form.”
Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT), Milwaukee, WI.
February 2013 – “Mash-ups: Meaning and Artistry in Configurable Culture.”
Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Student Conference, Victoria, CA.
February 2012 – “Kreuzspiel: A Closer Look.”
Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Student Conference, Vancouver, BC.
