263
Department of Music
Kevin Clifton
 Dr. Kevin Clifton has been a member of the music theory faculty at ISU since 2007. Previous to his appointment, he taught music theory at Ithaca College, the University of Virginia, Lawrence University and Colby College. Dr. Clifton’s research focuses on the creation of meaning within musical works. He has delivered papers on the music of Francis Poulenc, Bela Bartok, and Tori Amos at several regional, national, and international conferences. His dissertation develops a model for understanding Poulenc’s music by considering structured musical ambivalences, both tonal and stylistic, as well as extra-musical ambivalences, such as Poulenc’s precarious relationship to the aesthetics of Jean Cocteau. He has written on the Broadway musical Wicked in Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum. Dr. Clifton is currently at work on an article for the series Sound in Pornographic Film. In it, he discusses how music helps construct an anti-male narrative in Stanley Kubrick’s film, Eyes Wide Shut.
Ph.D. and M.M. University of Texas at Austin; B.A. Austin College
Office: FA 232
Phone: (812) 237-2731
 E-Mail: kclifton2@isugw.indstate.edu
|
