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Adam Krims

Professor of Music Analysis, Faculty of Arts

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Expertise Summary

Adam Krims specialises in Marxism, urban geography, and recent music history. He has also published on critical theory, cultural theory, and African-American musics, including hip-hop. He is author of Music and Urban Geography (Routledge, 2007), as well as Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He has contributed to Music Analysis, Nineteenth-Century Music, and numerous other journals and essay collections.

Research Summary

Prof. Krims's publications address issues that cut across music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology, focusing on urban change and music in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century. Among… read more

Recent Publications

  • KRIMS, A.P., 2012. Enablers of, and Challenges to, Urban Musical ‘Creativity’. In: KERSOVAN-BARBER, A., KIRCHBERG, V. and KUCHAR, R., eds., Music City: Musikalische Annäherungen an die 'kreative Stadt' Transcript Verlag. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2012. Norah Jones and Well-Being in Urban Space. In: ANDREWS, G., KEARNS, R., KINGSBURY, P. and FORRESTER, N., eds., Medicinal Melodies: Places of Health and Wellbeing in Popular Music Ashgate. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, AP, 2012. Music, Place, and Space?. In: CLAYTON, M, HERBERT, T and MIDDLETON, R, eds., Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction 2. Routeledge. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2011. Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and the Significance of Cities Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. 7(3), 241-259

Current Research

Prof. Krims's publications address issues that cut across music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology, focusing on urban change and music in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century. Among the topics addressed in his publications are urban geography, Historically-Informed Performance (HIP), hip-hop and other popular musics, music videos, and film music.

  • KRIMS, A.P., 2012. Enablers of, and Challenges to, Urban Musical ‘Creativity’. In: KERSOVAN-BARBER, A., KIRCHBERG, V. and KUCHAR, R., eds., Music City: Musikalische Annäherungen an die 'kreative Stadt' Transcript Verlag. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2012. Norah Jones and Well-Being in Urban Space. In: ANDREWS, G., KEARNS, R., KINGSBURY, P. and FORRESTER, N., eds., Medicinal Melodies: Places of Health and Wellbeing in Popular Music Ashgate. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, AP, 2012. Music, Place, and Space?. In: CLAYTON, M, HERBERT, T and MIDDLETON, R, eds., Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction 2. Routeledge. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2011. Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and the Significance of Cities Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. 7(3), 241-259
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2010. The Changing Functions of Music Recordings and Listening Practices. In: BAYLEY, A., ed., Recorded Music: Performance, Culture, and Technology Cambridge University Press. 68-86
  • KRIMS, A., 2009. Studying Reception and Scenes. In: SCOTT, D., ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology Ashgate. 397-410
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2007. Music and urban geography New York: Routledge.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2007. The Role of Recordings in Society. In: , ed., Recorded Music: Society, Technology, and Performance Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A., 2007. "What Does It Mean to Analyze Popular Music?". In: ALLAN MOORE, ed., Critical Essays in Popular Musicology Ashgate. (In Press.)
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2006. Eminem and the measurement of a master MC. In: HUNTER, J.W., ed., Contemporary literary criticism, volume 226 Michigan: Thomson Gale. 168-176
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2005. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity. In: Music and Culture Harlow: Longman.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2004. “Postmodern Musicology in Combined Development” Twentieth-Century Music.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2004. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity. In: RIVKIN, J. and RYAN, M., eds., Literary Theory: An Anthology 2nd. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2003. What does it mean to analyze popular music? Music Analysis. 22(1-2), 181-209
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2003. “Marxist Music Analysis Without Adorno: Popular Music and Urban Geography”. In: ALLAN MOORE, ed., Analysing Popular Music Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2002. The hip-hop sublime as a form of commodification. In: QURESHI, R.B., ed., Music and Marx: ideas, practice, politics New York: Routledge. 63-78
  • KRIMS,A.P., 2002. “Preface: Sounds of `La Cité’”. In: DURAND , A.-P., ed., Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the Francophone World Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2002. ÃSpace,Ã ÂPlace,Ã and Popular Music, in Cura‡ao and Elsewhere In: Keynote address, Popular Music and American Culture.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2002. Rap, Race, the "Local," and Urban Geography in Amsterdam. In: YOUNG, R., ed., Music, Popular Culture, Identities Critical Studies, 19. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2001. ÄMusic and Ideology In: Invited Chair.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2000. Music, Subjectivity, and Urban Geography In: Keynote address, Society for Music Analysis.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2000. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2000. ÄOn Cultural Studies and the Critique of Institutions,Å In: Participant,.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2000. Music, Subjectivity, and Analysis In: participant, Society for Music Aanlysis.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 2000. "Music Theory as Productivity" Canadian University Music Review.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1999. ÄA Semiotic Model of Atonal Motive Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. Recorded Classical Music in Changing American Cities In: American Musicological Society.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. "Music and Urban SpaceÅ In: Chair,American Musicological Society.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. ÄIntroduction: Postmodern Musical Poetics and the Problem of ÂClose ReadingÃ. In: Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic Routledge, London and New York.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. "`Represent': A Nexus of Signification in Rap Music,". In: Musical Signification Between Rhetoric and Pragmatics
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. "Materialisms in Music and Dance" In: Concrete Matters: Feminist Materialisms Across the Disciplines,.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. "Disciplining Deconstruction Music Analysis.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1998. Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic. In: Critical Voices London: Routledge.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. "Black, White, and Dialogics in an Ice Cube Song," In: Conference on Popular Music and Culture.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. "Hip-Hop and the Commodification of Black Poverty" In: Annual convention of the American Musicological Society.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. "Music Theory as Productivity" In: University of British Columbia.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. "Black, White, and Dialogics in an Ice Cube Song," In: Annual International Ballad Conference.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. "Constructing Identity in Hip-Hop: A Case Study," In: University of Iowa.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1996. ÃRepresentÃ: A Nexus of Signification in Hip-Hop In: International Musical Signification Project.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1995. ÄOn the Fear of Losing Our Tools: A Response to Joseph Straus" Music Theory Online.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1994. "Gangsta Rap and the Ethics of Form" In: Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1994. "A Sketch for Post-Structuralist Music Theory" In: Musical Signification, Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1994. "A Semiotic Model of Atonal Motive," In: Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1994. "Bloom, Post-Structuralism(s), and Music Theory" Music Theory Online.
  • KRIMS, A.P., 1991. "Some Analytical Comments on Text and Music in Martino's `Alone'," Perspectives of New Music.

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