Newcastle University

Introduction

Some brief articles on websites:
http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk/2007/Attinello.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/acustica2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/kagel.shtml
http://www.glbtq.com/

Background

Paul Attinello has taught at the International Centre for Music Studies at the Newcastle University since 2002. He also taught at the University of Hong Kong and UCLA, living and working on four continents in the past decade. He has published in the Journal of Musicological Research, Musik-Konzepte, Musica/Realtá, the revised New Grove and a number of essay collections.

Roles and Responsibilities

Dr Attinello has been Director of Postgraduate Studies for the School of Arts & Sciences, Head of Postgraduate Studies for ICMuS, Degree Programme Director for the MA programme in Music, Degree Programme Director for the Year Abroad Bachelors programme in Music, and and has served on external committees such as the AMS Council and the Philip Brett Award committee.

Qualifications

PhD in Music (Systematic Musicology), UCLA, 1997. 'The interpretation of chaos: a critical analysis of meaning in European avant-garde vocal music, 1958-68.'
MA in Music (Systematic Musicology), UCLA, 1991. 'The strategy of theory, or through the looking-glass: rationalism, irrationalism & domination in music of the 20th century.'

Previous Positions

University of Hong Kong, Assistant Professor, 1997-2001
UCLA, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2000

Future Research

Current projects include a book on music about AIDS, a book on Meredith Monk and performance art, and an edited volumes on contemporary composer Gerhard Stäbler. An edited volume on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been published by Ashgate, and has received critical awards.

Research Roles

Member of Editorial Collective, 2006-, Radical Musicology e-journal (www.radical-musicology.org.uk/).
Member of Editorial Board, 2006-, Music and Politics e-journal (www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/).
Associate Editor and Member of Editorial Board, 2001-, Twentieth Century Music, Cambridge University Press.

Funding

David Tudor Research Grant 2000-01, Getty Institute, Los Angeles ($2,500)
Research Grants Council Competitive Bid Award, 1998-2001, University Grants Council, Hong Kong (£65,000)
Committee on Research & Conference Grants, U. of Hong Kong, 1997-2001 (7 research and travel grants totaling £21,000)
Fulbright Award 1993-4, for study in Berlin, Basel, and Darmstadt

Undergraduate Teaching

Understanding Modern & Postmodern Musics
Musicals
Music about AIDS
Performance Art / Performance Theory
Parody and Music

Postgraduate Teaching

Research Training in Music
Cultural Theories of Music
Studying Popular Music

• Attinello P. AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS. In: Zhall, P, ed. Oxford Handbook of Suppressed Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. In Press.
• Attinello P, ed. Live the Opposite Daring: Gerhard Stäbler - Graphic Scores, Conceptual Works, Recent Projects. Saarbrücken: Pfau Verlag, 2012. In Preparation.
• Attinello P, Halfyard J, Knights V, ed. Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.
• Attinello P. Rock, television, paper, musicals, scissors: Buffy, The Simpsons, and Parody. In: Attinello, P., Halfyard, J.K., Knights, V, ed. Music, Sound and Silence in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, pp.235-248.
• Attinello P. The Universe will Tell You What It Needs: Being, Time, Sondheim. In: S. Baur, R. Knapp, J. Warwick, ed. Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008, pp.77-91.
• Attinello P. chemical bodies. Radical Musicology 2007, 2.
• Attinello P, Fox C, Iddon M, ed. Contemporary Music Review, Special Issue: Other Darmstadts. Oxon: Routledge, 2007.
• Attinello P. Postmodern or modern: a different approach to Darmstadt. Contemporary Music Review, Special Issue: Other Darmstadts 2007, 26(1), 25-37.
• Attinello P. Dialectics of Serialism: Abstraction and Deconstruction in Schnebel’s für stimmen (... missa est). Contemporary Music Review: Other Darmstadts 2007, 26(1), 39-52.
• Attinello P, Osmond-Smith D. Gay Darmstadt: Flamboyance and Rigor at the Summer Courses for New Music. Contemporary Music Review, Special Issue: Other Darmstadts 2007, 26(1), 105-114.
• Attinello P. Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS. In: Sheila Whitely & Jennifer Rycenga, ed. Queering the Popular Pitch. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.221-231.
• Attinello P. Fever / Fragile / Fatigue: Music, AIDS, Present, and. In: Lerner, N., Straus, J, ed. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.13-22.
• Attinello P. Authority and freedom: toward a sociology of the gay choruses. In: Brett, P., Wood, E., Thomas, G, ed. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp.315-46.
• Attinello P. Hieroglyph, Gesture, Sign, Meaning: Bussotti’s pièces de chair II. In: Kendall, R.A., Savage, R.W.H, ed. Perspectives in Systematic Musicology. Los Angeles: University of California, 2005, pp.219-227.
• Attinello P. Lines That Go Outside the Boxes: Mauricio Kagel. BBC, London, UK: Sonic Arts Network & BBC 3 for Cut & Splice Festival, 2005. .
• Attinello P. Mauricio Kagel: Biography. BBC, London, UK: Sonic Arts Network & BBC 3 for Cut & Splice Festival, 2005. .
• Attinello P. Möglichkeiten des Zeichens / The Possible Sign. In: Mueller, T., Shim, K., Stäbler, G, ed. SoundVisions. Saarbrücken: PFAU Verlag, 2005, pp.12-19.
• Attinello P. Review of Iva Bittová Elida (CD). Opera Today, 2005. Available at: http://www.operatoday.com/content/2005/09/bittova_elida.php.
• Attinello P. [dictionary entries] 'Choruses and Bands'; 'Music and AIDS'; 'Bussotti, Sylvano'; 'Henze, Hans Werner'; 'Del Tredici, David'; 'Susa, Conrad'. In: Summers, C.J, ed. The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance & Musical Theatre. San Francisco, California, USA: Cleis Press, 2004.
• Attinello P. 'Choruses and Bands'; 'Musicology'; 'Music Studies'. In: Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture. New York, USA: Scribner's, 2004.
• Attinello P. Passion / Mirrors (A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel / In the Hall of Mirrors). In: Dell'Antonio, A, ed. Beyond Structural Listening?: Postmodern Modes of Hearing. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 2004, pp.154-172.
• Attinello P. Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism. In: Lochhead J; Auner J, ed. Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp.263-285.
• Attinello P. 'Amirkhanian, Charles'; 'Childs, Barney'; 'Hassell, Jon'; 'Kagel, Mauricio'; 'Schnebel, Dieter'; 'Shere, Charles'; 'Stäbler, Gerhard' [dictionary entries]. In: Sadie, S, ed. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2000.
• Attinello P. Music and AIDS: Some Interesting Works. GLSG Newsletter 2000, 10(1), 4-6.
• Attinello P. Geroglifico, gesto, segno, significato: analisi di Pièces de chair II de Sylvano Bussotti (translated by Roberto Favoro). Musicá/Realtá 1995, 46, 111-121.
• Attinello P. Performance and/or Shame: A Mosaic of Gay (and Other) Perceptions. Repercussions 1995, 4(2), 97-130.
• Attinello P. Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia. Journal of Musicological Research 1995, 15(1), 25-53.
• Attinello, Paul. Hearing Stäbler from a continent away: politics and silence in the song cycles. In: Johannes Bultmann & Hans-Werner Heister, ed. Angefügt, nahtlos, ans Heute: Zur Arbeit des Komponisten Gerhard Stäbler - Standpunkte, Analysen, Perspektiven. Hofheim, Germany: Wolke Verlag, 1994, pp.169-87.
• Attinello P. Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Konservative, oder Die Sehnsucht nach der Utopie, translated by Heinz-Klaus Metzger. In: Metzger H-K; Riehn R, ed. Palestrina zwischen Démontage und Rettung. München: edition text + kritik, 1994, pp.60-83.
• Attinello P. Signifying chaos: towards a semiotic analysis of Sylvano Bussotti's Siciliano. Repercussions 1992, 1(2), 84-110.
• Attinello P. A Separate Music: Meredith Monk and Notation, Performance, Voice. In: Kaduri, Y, ed. Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Image in the Fine Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. In Preparation.
• Attinello P. Assassin in a Three-Piece Suit: Slow Fire, Minimalism, and the Eighties. In: Slethaug, G., Ford, S, ed. Hit the Road, Jack: Essays in the Culture of the American Road. Montreal, Canada: McGill University Press, 2013. In Press.
• Attinello P. Singing about words, writing about music: vocal works of Christopher Fox. In: Dodd,R, ed. The Music of Christopher Fox. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013. In Preparation.
• Attinello P. The Graphic String Quartet: Classical Facets of High Modernism. In: Toop, R; Albertson, D, ed. String Quartets since 1945. Taylor & Francis, 2013. In Preparation.
• Attinello P. Who Dies? Musical and Textual Transformation in Derek Jarman's Last Films. In: Subero,G, ed. HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Culture: Strategies of Representation and Remembrance. Surry, UK: Ashgate, 2013. In Preparation.
• Attinello P. The Integrity of Musical Discourse: Schnebel and a Connected Universe. In: Brüstle, C, ed. Schnebel 80. Saarbrücken: Pfau Verlag, 2012. In Press.
• Attinello P. Against History: Defining, & Defending, Systematic Musicologies. Filigrane: Musique, esthétique, sciences, société 2010, New Musicology, Perspectives critiques(11), 25-36.