Joseph N. Straus
Distinguished Professor
Music Department, The Graduate Center CUNY.
Research Interests:
Modernist Music, Post-Tonal Theory,
Music and Disability.
Music and Disability.
Education:
Ph.D. in Music Theory, Yale University, 1981.
B. A. in Music and English, Harvard College, 1976.
Joseph Straus is a music theorist specializing in music since 1900. He has written technical music-theoretical articles, analytical studies of music by a variety of modernist composers, and, most recently, a series of article and books that engage disability as a cultural practice. He written textbooks that have become standard references. Many of his books and articles have received publication awards from the Society for Music Theory (SMT), of which he was President from 1997–99.