Jonathan Pieslak

Jonathan Pieslak is a music theorist and composer. His areas of research interest include critical theory, rhythm and meter in metal music, and music and war. As composer, Jonathan was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, a Guggenheim fellowship in 2011, and he has also been recognized with awards and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, MacDowell Colony, among others.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

• Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music of the Iraq War. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.
• “Text, Sound, and Identity in Korn’s ‘Hey Daddy’.” Popular Music 27/1 (2008): 35–52.
• Review of Kevin Korsyn, Decentering Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). Music Theory Online, 14/1 (2008).
• “Re-casting Metal: Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Meshuggah.” Music Theory Spectrum 29/2 (2007): 219–45.
• “Sound Targets: Music and the War in Iraq.” The Journal of Musicological Research 26/2–3 (2007): 123–50.
• “Conflicting Analytical Approaches to Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Tonality: An Archaeological Evaluation.” Theory and Practice 30 (2006): 97–132.
• “The Challenges of Plurality within Contemporary Composition.” The Musical Times 146 (Spring 2005): 45–57.