Theodore Gracyk

Theodore Gracyk is Professor of Philosophy at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He was co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from 2013 to 2023. He is the author of several philosophical books on music, including Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock Music (Duke University Press, 1996) and On Music (Routledge, 2013). He received the 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize of the American Society for Aesthetics for Making Meaning with Popular Song: Philosophical Essays (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He is co-winner of the 2002 Woody Guthrie Award for I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity (Temple University Press, 2001), the book award of The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch. With Andrew Kania, he co-edited The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (2011). More recently, he co-authored Jazz and the Philosophy of Art with Lee B. Brown and David Goldblatt (Routledge, 2018). He has been a department chair, an acting college dean, and from 2011 to 2015, he served as Faculty President at his university.