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Dec 11, 2015, 10:46:54 AM12/11/15
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FYI - this looks like a cool class with Ben Harbert for the spring.


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From: Benjamin J. Harbert <bj...@georgetown.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Music as Labor
To: "Joseph A. McCartin" <ja...@georgetown.edu>
Cc: Nick Wertsch <nm...@georgetown.edu>, Jessica Fernanda Chilin <jf...@georgetown.edu>, Alexandros Taliadoros <alexandros...@gmail.com>


Great. Thanks for the recommendation. Glad to connect. My research has been moving from prisons to labor (combined in my work now) so I hope to dovetail with KI more in the future.

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Benjamin J. Harbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Georgetown University
108 Davis Performing Arts Center
37th & O Streets, NW
Washington DC 20057-1063
(202) 687-2438

On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Joseph A. McCartin <ja...@georgetown.edu> wrote:

Ben,
It's great to hear this.  I'm copying KI colleagues so that they know about your course.  I wonder if some selections from a work like Guy Standing's A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens might work as a very general reading on labor and capital that is topical and might connect with students.  If you don't think that works, I'll try to think of something else. 
Best,
Joe 

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Benjamin J. Harbert <bj...@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Hi Joseph,

I wanted to let you know that I’m teaching a course entitled “Music as Labor" that might sync with the Kalmanovitz Initiative. It’s a small seminar that will go through theories on music as a form of labor, hitting different stages of capital (from early Southern work songs to modeling the new worker in a neoliberal age). If you have any students who might be interested, please send them my way. 

In a related note, I’d love any suggestions for good general writing on capital and labor. We’ll be working though recent ethnomusicological literature on the subject, but having clear general frameworks (like Braverman’s work on monopoly capital) might help us wade through the discipline-specific ideas and relate them out. 

Thanks,
Ben

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Benjamin J. Harbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Georgetown University
108 Davis Performing Arts Center
37th & O Streets, NW
Washington DC 20057-1063
(202) 687-2438




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Joseph A. McCartin
Professor of History
Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
Georgetown University
KI website: http://lwp.georgetown.edu




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Nick Wertsch
Program Coordinator
Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor

Georgetown University
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