Bryan Parkhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Parkhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkhurst |
| SIGNATURE | PARKHURST B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sins of the Son: A Response to Megan Lavengood
Sins of the Father: Schenker, Schenkerism and Ewell's On Music Theory
So, if one argues that the hierarchic thinking that lies at the core of Schenkerian theory is white and racist, what is one to make of the fact that in West Africa, too, modes of hierarchic thinking are pronounced and functionally indispensable to an understanding of many an expressive structure, musical as well as non-musical? The worst consequence of claiming technical procedures for whiteness is denying the existence of shared ways of proceedi…
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory: Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn
Unfree Labour and Value Productivity: Challenges for the Marxian Labour Theory of Value
This paper explores the question: does unfree labour produce value? The paper does not answer the question. Rather, it contends that, no matter how Marxists answer the question, they end up either (1) relinquishing the view that labour is the only source of value or (2) appealing to an apparently bogus distinction in order to hang on to the view. Both of these alternatives will be unacceptable to the orthodox Marxian economist. For the choice is …
Pitch, Tone, and Note
This chapter recasts the terms “Pitch,” “Tone,” and “Note” as far-reaching historical-materialist categories, with a view to expounding and defending the following ideas: (1) there is an immanent developmental logic to the way that Pitch, Tone, and Note have changed over time; (2) this trajectory of development is open to empirical investigation and to explanation anchored in the concrete features of human practices and institutions and their env…
Music, Art, and Kinds of Use Values
This essay uses musical and artistic examples to raise questions about Marx's conception of the nature of use value. I uncover some respects in which concrete use values can be economically consequential in ways that go beyond simply constituting an abstract precondition (as the basis of demand) for the saleability of commodities. The categories of 'production-tracking' and 'really unsubsumable' use values are described and analyzed, also with th…
Digital Information and Value: A Response to Jakob Rigi
In a series of recent articles, Jakob Rigi has formulated an articulate and sophisticated Marxian view about the relationship between digital production and value theory. Anyone interested in the economic dynamics of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon) needs to come to terms with the position Rigi stakes out. In this article, I challenge Rigi’s thesis that profits from the sale of digital information (DI) constitute rent. I do s…
Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art
Book Review| January 01 2018 Art Rethought: The Social Practices of ArtBook reviewssBook reviews Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 325 pp. Bryan J. Parkhurst Bryan J. Parkhurst Oberlin College and Conservatory Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 130–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4230117 Cite Icon Cite Sh…
Fraught with Ought: An Outline of an Expressivist Meta-Theory
In this paper I develop a theory about language and musical analysis. My project is to defend a thesis about the meaning of the linguistic building blocks of musical analyses, which I call "analytical utterances." The theory applies meta-ethical expressivism to the domain of musical aesthetics. I try to understand analytical utterances as expressing attitudes of approval or endorsement, rather than as, in and of themselves, issuing statements of …
Fraught with Ought: An Outline of an Expressivist Meta-Theory
In this paper I develop a theory about language and musical analysis. My project is to defend a thesis about the meaning of the linguistic building blocks of musical analyses, which I call "analytical utterances." The theory applies meta-ethical expressivism to the domain of musical aesthetics. I try to understand analytical utterances as expressing attitudes of approval or endorsement, rather than as, in and of themselves, issuing statements of …
Fraught with Ought: An Outline of an Expressivist Meta-Theory
In this paper I develop a theory about language and musical analysis. My project is to defend a thesis about the meaning of the linguistic building blocks of musical analyses, which I call "analytical utterances." The theory applies meta-ethical expressivism to the domain of musical aesthetics. I try to understand analytical utterances as expressing attitudes of approval or endorsement, rather than as, in and of themselves, issuing statements of …
Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art
Book Review| January 01 2018 Art Rethought: The Social Practices of ArtBook reviewssBook reviews Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 325 pp. Bryan J. Parkhurst Bryan J. Parkhurst Oberlin College and Conservatory Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 130–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4230117 Cite Icon Cite Sh…
Digital Information and Value: A Response to Jakob Rigi
In a series of recent articles, Jakob Rigi has formulated an articulate and sophisticated Marxian view about the relationship between digital production and value theory. Anyone interested in the economic dynamics of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon) needs to come to terms with the position Rigi stakes out. In this article, I challenge Rigi’s thesis that profits from the sale of digital information (DI) constitute rent. I do s…
Pitch, Tone, and Note
This chapter recasts the terms “Pitch,” “Tone,” and “Note” as far-reaching historical-materialist categories, with a view to expounding and defending the following ideas: (1) there is an immanent developmental logic to the way that Pitch, Tone, and Note have changed over time; (2) this trajectory of development is open to empirical investigation and to explanation anchored in the concrete features of human practices and institutions and their env…
Music, Art, and Kinds of Use Values
This essay uses musical and artistic examples to raise questions about Marx's conception of the nature of use value. I uncover some respects in which concrete use values can be economically consequential in ways that go beyond simply constituting an abstract precondition (as the basis of demand) for the saleability of commodities. The categories of 'production-tracking' and 'really unsubsumable' use values are described and analyzed, also with th…
Unfree Labour and Value Productivity: Challenges for the Marxian Labour Theory of Value
This paper explores the question: does unfree labour produce value? The paper does not answer the question. Rather, it contends that, no matter how Marxists answer the question, they end up either (1) relinquishing the view that labour is the only source of value or (2) appealing to an apparently bogus distinction in order to hang on to the view. Both of these alternatives will be unacceptable to the orthodox Marxian economist. For the choice is …
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory: Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn
Sins of the Father: Schenker, Schenkerism and Ewell's On Music Theory
So, if one argues that the hierarchic thinking that lies at the core of Schenkerian theory is white and racist, what is one to make of the fact that in West Africa, too, modes of hierarchic thinking are pronounced and functionally indispensable to an understanding of many an expressive structure, musical as well as non-musical? The worst consequence of claiming technical procedures for whiteness is denying the existence of shared ways of proceedi…
Sins of the Son: A Response to Megan Lavengood
Art (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Musical (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works)