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Brian Fairley is an ethnomusicologist and media historian specializing in traditional music from the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. His research brings together approaches from historical musicology, sound studies, and media archaeology, exploring the idea of polyphony in world music, the history of multitrack recording technology, and the role of musical comparison in producing racial ...
Brian Fairley. Brian Fairley is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College. His work explores the history of sound-recording technology, anthropological theories of race and evolution, and the traditional vocal music of the Republic of Georgia. His monograph in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in ...
Brian Fairley (born 18 April 1959) is a Scottish former association football manager. Fairley was born in Falkirk . His coaching career began at Whitburn Juniors before going on to manage Stenhousemuir , however after a dispute with the board over a signing he resigned in October 2001. [1]
The Unanswered Question: A Charles Ives Fantasy (at Double Edge Theatre, dir. Brian Fairley, 2008) Original performance employing the songs of Charles Ives (with live piano accompaniment by the director) and a textual montage featuring cowboys, college men, and transcendentalists.
Jul 1, 2020 · Brian Fairley is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at New York University. His dissertation traces a media history of multichannel recording experiments in Georgian traditional music while critically examining the emergence of “polyphony” as the dominant paradigm for hearing and understanding Georgian music.
The misty, rolling foothills that rise from the Black Sea to the Caucasus mountains might seem an unlikely origin point for radical experimentation in recorded sound.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Collections. The Texture of a Nation: Excavating Polyphony in the Caucasus. Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory (forthcoming).
