- Saturday, March 28, 2015
- 4:00 PM–5:15 PM
- CFAC 222
with Jewly Hight, Stephen Deussner, and David Dark
Three gifted writers will discuss the form and function of music criticism, including the dimensions unique to approaching criticism as a christian.
Panelists:
Jewly Hight is a freelance music journalist and critic based in Nashville. She’s contributed to NPR/NPR Music, Billboard, Rolling Stone Country, Wondering Sound, CMT Edge, The Nashville Scene, The Oxford American and numerous other outlets and been a talking head on PBS, CMT and On Point with Tom Ashbrook. She published her first book, Right By Their Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs, in 2011, has a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School and teaches Entertainment Reporting and Writing at Middle Tennessee State University.
A Tennessee native who was raised Southern Baptist but became obsessed with pop music as a teenager, Stephen M. Deusner grew up to be a freelance music critic and part-time record store clerk in Bloomington, Indiana. A long-time staff writer for Pitchfork Media, he has also contributed to Salon, American Songwriter, CMT/CMT Edge, the Village Voice, the Memphis Flyer, and Wondering Sound, among other print and online publications. His work has appeared in two books: an essay on Okkervil River and unreliable narrators in The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) and The Pitchfork 500 (Touchstone, 2008).
David Dark teaches at Belmont University and Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. He's also the author of Everyday Apocalypse, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, and Life's Too Short To Pretend You're Not Religious (forthcoming from IVP).
