Sumanth S. Gopinath

Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (MIT Press, 2013) and is editing, with Jason Stanyek, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). His essays, articles, and reviews on Steve Reich, minimalism, sound and new media, Marxism and music scholarship, academic politics, the ringtone industry, Bob Dylan, and Benjamin Britten have appeared in various scholarly journals and the edited collections. He is working on a book project on musical minimalism and researching sound in new and formerly new media, Bob Dylan's musicianship, and the music of James Dillon.