Michael Borshuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1311734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Borshuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Borshuk |
| SIGNATURE | BORSHUK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3326-2280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction
This essay provides an overview of the many themes that Steely Dan at 50 observes by revisiting the group’s history and distinct musical concept as crafted by Steely Dan’s architects, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Considering Steely Dan’s music and its wide-ranging effects, I historicize their relationship to other genres and their legendary fixation on recording perfection, while I also draw connections to other aspects of the 1970…
Special Issue of Rock Music Studies Steely Dan at 50
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Rock Music Studies on Steely Dan at 50. The year 2022 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Steely Dan, based on the release date of their debut recor
Schoolboy Takes the Stage”
In 1995 and 1996, Albert Murray published two books: a novel titled The Seven League Boots and a work of cultural criticism, The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. The former book extended the ongoing narrative of Murray’s semiautobiographical protagonist, named alternately Scooter and Schoolboy, who in two earlier volumes, like Murray himself, had made his way from an idyllic Alabama boyhood through mat…
The Jazz Bubble
Reviewed by: The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture by Dale Chapman, and: Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon Michael Borshuk Dale Chapman. The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 2018. 282 pp. $18.45. Maxine Gordon. Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon. Berkeley: U of California P, 2018. 279 pp. $29.95. One of the most inv…
Cross-Rhythms
Book Review| December 01 2010 Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature; Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation Michael Borshuk Michael Borshuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 855–857. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-056 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Borshuk; Cross-Rhythms: J…
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Cross-Rhythms
Book Review| December 01 2010 Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature; Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation Michael Borshuk Michael Borshuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 855–857. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-056 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Borshuk; Cross-Rhythms: J…
The Jazz Bubble
Reviewed by: The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture by Dale Chapman, and: Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon Michael Borshuk Dale Chapman. The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 2018. 282 pp. $18.45. Maxine Gordon. Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon. Berkeley: U of California P, 2018. 279 pp. $29.95. One of the most inv…
Special Issue of Rock Music Studies Steely Dan at 50
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Rock Music Studies on Steely Dan at 50. The year 2022 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Steely Dan, based on the release date of their debut recor
Schoolboy Takes the Stage”
In 1995 and 1996, Albert Murray published two books: a novel titled The Seven League Boots and a work of cultural criticism, The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. The former book extended the ongoing narrative of Murray’s semiautobiographical protagonist, named alternately Scooter and Schoolboy, who in two earlier volumes, like Murray himself, had made his way from an idyllic Alabama boyhood through mat…
Introduction
This essay provides an overview of the many themes that Steely Dan at 50 observes by revisiting the group’s history and distinct musical concept as crafted by Steely Dan’s architects, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Considering Steely Dan’s music and its wide-ranging effects, I historicize their relationship to other genres and their legendary fixation on recording perfection, while I also draw connections to other aspects of the 1970…
Art (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jazz (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 works)