Jacek Blaszkiewicz
@jacekbl.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of music history at Wayne State University. 19th/20th-century France, sound studies, histories of (sight)reading, street music. Author, Fanfare for a City (UC Press, 2024). Non-ac words in Exacting Clam, Gargoyle Magazine.
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Jacek Blaszkiewicz
@jacekbl.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Jack Blaszkiewicz
Jack Blaszkiewicz Back to Gargoyle Online Party in Tiltsville, Florida The palm trees flash red and blue. Like the intoxicated driver negotiating with the police, they sway, feigning stability agai…
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My first short fiction has just been published in Gargoyle Magazine. It’s loosely inspired by a recent family trip to Florida.
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
One of my class assignments is to rewrite mvt 5 of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique “but it’s Gen Z.” And it never, ever disappoints.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One of my class assignments is to rewrite mvt 5 of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique “but it’s Gen Z.” And it never, ever disappoints.
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Hannah Smart on the 900-word David Foster Wallace sentence she's spent the last year diagramming, against the advice of well-meaning family
and friends: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
and friends: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hannah Smart on the 900-word David Foster Wallace sentence she's spent the last year diagramming, against the advice of well-meaning family
and friends: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
and friends: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
Coming soon in 19th-Century Music: a cultural history of sight-reading at the Paris Conservatoire
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Coming soon in 19th-Century Music: a cultural history of sight-reading at the Paris Conservatoire
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in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
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November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
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Call for Papers: Global Musical Modernities and Local Agency, 7-10 May 2026, Toronto
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-papers-global-musical-modernities-and-local-agency-7-10-may-2026-toronto/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-papers-global-musical-modernities-and-local-agency-7-10-may-2026-toronto/
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Call for Papers: Global Musical Modernities and Local Agency, 7-10 May 2026, Toronto
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-papers-global-musical-modernities-and-local-agency-7-10-may-2026-toronto/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-papers-global-musical-modernities-and-local-agency-7-10-may-2026-toronto/
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October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"Communism must become ecological. And yet this argument is incomplete if it does not include its corollary: political ecology can become truly revolutionary only by becoming communist"
Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy
[book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it. The first reas...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Communism must become ecological. And yet this argument is incomplete if it does not include its corollary: political ecology can become truly revolutionary only by becoming communist"
Sensory studies 2026: a state-of-the-art review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sensory studies 2026: a state-of-the-art review
Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sensory studies 2026: a state-of-the-art review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
I’m presenting new material—on “The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France”—
at the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter on Oct. 11. The conference will be livestreamed.
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at the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter on Oct. 11. The conference will be livestreamed.
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Fall 2025 Conference
AMS-Midwest Fall 2025 Conference (Hybrid), hosted by Oakland University Date : October 11, 2025 Host : Oakland University, Rochester, MI Note : The meeting will be held in person and virtually...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’m presenting new material—on “The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France”—
at the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter on Oct. 11. The conference will be livestreamed.
amsmidwest.weebly.com/fall-2025-co...
at the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter on Oct. 11. The conference will be livestreamed.
amsmidwest.weebly.com/fall-2025-co...
Intense-looking slide from my upcoming talk,"The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France."The hands are Alfred Cortot's, recorded in slow motion then freeze-framed bar by bar.The slurs in the score are not phrasing; they denote lateral/vertical motion.
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Intense-looking slide from my upcoming talk,"The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France."The hands are Alfred Cortot's, recorded in slow motion then freeze-framed bar by bar.The slurs in the score are not phrasing; they denote lateral/vertical motion.
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Autumn 2025 issue is out! Read articles by Martha Feldman, James E. K. Parker, Anne M. Thell, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Wendy Anne Lee, and Brian Massumi.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Autumn 2025 issue is out! Read articles by Martha Feldman, James E. K. Parker, Anne M. Thell, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Wendy Anne Lee, and Brian Massumi.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...
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Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Dissent Magazine
Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfi...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
A kind review of my book is out in the Journal of Modern History. I’m reviewed by James H. Johnson, whose own book, “Listening in Paris: A Cultural History,” I read as a graduate student and have referenced and taught ever since.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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August 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A kind review of my book is out in the Journal of Modern History. I’m reviewed by James H. Johnson, whose own book, “Listening in Paris: A Cultural History,” I read as a graduate student and have referenced and taught ever since.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
I wrote about pianist John Ogdon's infamous sight-reading abilities, and whether they could be called superhuman or something else.
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John Ogdon’s Rolls
In the history of sight-reading, anecdotes abound. Famous keyboardists were often super-readers of difficult scores. We know this because they wad witnesses. Here is Carl Czerny on his student, Fra…
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August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I wrote about pianist John Ogdon's infamous sight-reading abilities, and whether they could be called superhuman or something else.
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/j...
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/j...
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Today, we designated Wayne State University (WSU) a “Hostile Campus” for its repeated repression of Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and allied students who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Learn more: islamophobia.org/hostile-camp...
Learn more: islamophobia.org/hostile-camp...
August 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today, we designated Wayne State University (WSU) a “Hostile Campus” for its repeated repression of Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and allied students who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Learn more: islamophobia.org/hostile-camp...
Learn more: islamophobia.org/hostile-camp...
Excited to present new stuff at MLA 2026 in Toronto
August 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Excited to present new stuff at MLA 2026 in Toronto
Slightly diminish a band:
The Maybe Maybe Maybes
The Maybe Maybe Maybes
Slightly diminish a band: Aluminum Maiden
Slightly diminish a band: 3.9 Non-Blondes
August 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
The Maybe Maybe Maybes
The Maybe Maybe Maybes
New blog post: sight-reading on the Ondes martenot, and how Kittler could make sense of it.
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Sight-Reading the ondes Martenot (feat. Kittler and Duruflé)
You don’t wing it with technology. Before I can enter the world of media studies—the world of McLuhan and Kittler and networks and interfaces and epistemology and so forth—I have to type, thumb, sw…
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August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New blog post: sight-reading on the Ondes martenot, and how Kittler could make sense of it.
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/s...
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/s...
If only I could write like this
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If only I could write like this
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"As musicology has become more conscious of the monumentalizing forces of canon formation in music historiography, object lessons can offer a 'punctuating' alternative." In its new issue, "19th-Century Music" publishes its first "Object Lesson." online.ucpress.edu/ncm/issue/49/1
Volume 49 Issue 1 | 19th-Century Music | University of California Press
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July 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"As musicology has become more conscious of the monumentalizing forces of canon formation in music historiography, object lessons can offer a 'punctuating' alternative." In its new issue, "19th-Century Music" publishes its first "Object Lesson." online.ucpress.edu/ncm/issue/49/1
My first short fiction has just been published in Gargoyle Magazine. It’s loosely inspired by a recent family trip to Florida.
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
Jack Blaszkiewicz
Jack Blaszkiewicz Back to Gargoyle Online Party in Tiltsville, Florida The palm trees flash red and blue. Like the intoxicated driver negotiating with the police, they sway, feigning stability agai…
gargoylemagazine.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My first short fiction has just been published in Gargoyle Magazine. It’s loosely inspired by a recent family trip to Florida.
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
My last piece of published creative writing was a poem I wrote when I was nine. This feels good.
gargoylemagazine.com/jack-blaszki...
Excited to host the North American Conference on 19th-Century Music at Wayne State University next week! Check out the program here:
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NAC19CM - 2025 Conference Schedule
Wednesday, June 25
8:00–9:00 Breakfast (provided)
8:45 Welcoming Remarks, Jack Blaszkiewicz and Jeffrey Sposato
9:00–10:30 New Approaches to Analyzing and Researching Nineteenth-Century Music
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June 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Excited to host the North American Conference on 19th-Century Music at Wayne State University next week! Check out the program here:
sites.google.com/view/nac19cm...
sites.google.com/view/nac19cm...
My latest blog post discusses new reading-related lit that has had me thinking hard. I also link to my latest review, published in Exacting Clam.
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/s...
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/s...
Surface Studies
It’s been a while since I last posted. Professional and personal life has gotten in the way (okay, to pinpoint it: teaching three courses and raising a toddler), but I have continued to think…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My latest blog post discusses new reading-related lit that has had me thinking hard. I also link to my latest review, published in Exacting Clam.
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/s...
sightliteracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/s...
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Exacting Clam No.17 is here.
Gina DeMartino's A Clam at the Bellagio adorns the cover.
Stunning fiction, poetry, criticism and essay adorns the rest of it.
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Gina DeMartino's A Clam at the Bellagio adorns the cover.
Stunning fiction, poetry, criticism and essay adorns the rest of it.
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June 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Exacting Clam No.17 is here.
Gina DeMartino's A Clam at the Bellagio adorns the cover.
Stunning fiction, poetry, criticism and essay adorns the rest of it.
Subscribe today
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Gina DeMartino's A Clam at the Bellagio adorns the cover.
Stunning fiction, poetry, criticism and essay adorns the rest of it.
Subscribe today
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