Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D
Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D., is Professor of Music Theory and Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of North Texas’ College of Music. His primary interests center on the music of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Schenkerian theory, and politics and music. He has published on a wide range of topics, especially on theories of form and large-scale tonal structure, in a broad array of academic journals and books. He teaches courses on music theory and the politics of classical music, and has actively directed the “Lost Composers”
Project, which seeks to revive the music and theoretical work of composers eclipsed or lost as a result of the Holocaust or Nazi-era cultural policies. From 2004 until 2020, he published
The Journal of Schenkerian Studies until he was subjected to a massive cancellation attack for his defense of Austrian-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker against charges of “white privilege” and “racism.” In spite of his cancellation, he continues teaching, publishing, and pursuing justice in the courts for violation of his academic freedom.
A Cancelled Professor Reflects on Academic Nazism
November 2023:In 2020, the author explicitly warned that anti-Semitic rhetoric and blood libels promoted in academia could lay the ideological groundwork for a second Holocaust against Israeli Jews. Three years later, his dire prediction has come true, as eliminationist anti-Semitism has now triumphed at many top universities in America.
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