On Not Letting Sounds Be Themselves Available to Purchase

Holly Watkins is Chair and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. She is the author of Musical Vitalities: Ventures in a Biotic Esthetics of Music (forthcoming in 2018 from the University of Chicago Press) and Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought: From E. T. A. Hoffmann to Arnold Schoenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her articles on Romantic and modernist aesthetics, ecocriticism, and intersections between music and philosophy have appeared in such venues as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Nineteenth-Century Music, Women and Music, Opera Quarterly, and Contemporary Music Review. In 2010–11, Watkins held a Harrington Faculty Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2014–15, she received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in support of her most recent book.