John Covach - Speaker

John Covach is Arthur Satz Professor in the Humanities and Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music as well as Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He has published several dozen academic articles and chapters on topics dealing with popular music, twelve-tone music, and the philosophy and aesthetics of music. He is the principal author of the college textbook What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock Music (W.W. Norton) and has co-edited Understanding Rock (Oxford University Press), American Rock and the Classical Tradition (Routledge), Traditions, Institution, and American Popular Music (Routledge), Sounding Out Pop (University of Michigan Press) and The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones (Cambridge University Press). He is editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Prog (Cambridge University Press). Professor Covach has appeared widely in the media, including the BBC radio and televison, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Time.com, Foxnews.com, and many other outlets. As a guitarist, Professor Covach has performed and recorded both classical music and rock in North America and Europe. He is also an accredited meditation teacher, having studied a wide variety of approaches and received numerous trainings and initiations in North America and India.