Arved Ashby

Arved Ashby is a Professor of Musicology at The Ohio State University's School of Music within the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Musicology from Yale University (1995, 1989) and dual degrees in Music and English from Northwestern University (BMus/BA, 1987). His research explores 20th/21st-century art music, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus on composers like Alban Berg, Frank Zappa, and Benjamin Britten. He received the Alfred Einstein Award (1996) for analyzing Berg's ties to Schoenberg. His books include Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction (2010) and Popular Music and the Post-Music-Video Auteur (2013). Current projects examine music discourse and Mahler's epistemic challenges.

Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses, including online History of Rock 'n' Roll (Ohio State's first online music course) and seminars on Berg's Lulu and cinematic auteurism. His work bridges musicology with critical theory and media studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to cultural history.

• Awards: Alfred Einstein Award (1996)
• Publications: Monographs on media and music, edited collections on modernist music
• Teaching: Courses on Greek antiquity to Matmos, rock to Philip Glass film scores