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Ethan Hein is an adjunct professor of music at NYU and the New School. As a founding member of the NYU Music Experience Design Lab, Ethan has taken a leadership role in the development of online tools for music learning and expression, most notably the Groove Pizza. Together with Will Kuhn, he is the co-author of Electronic Music School: a Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity, published by Oxford University Press. He writes a monthly column for MusicRadar and maintains an influential blog. He recently gave an invited keynote at the Autumn School at the Escola Superior de Educação do Porto, Portugal.

Selected Publications

2024: Hein, E. & Blackman, T. Building hip-hop educators. In L. Eusterbrock, C. Kattenbeck & O. Kautny (Eds.), It's how you flip it: Multiple perspectives on Hip-Hop and music education (pp. 223-242). Transcript.

2023: Fortune, H. & Hein, E. 5 Pop Grooves for Orff Ensemble. F-flat Books.

2022: Hein, E. The politics is in the drums: Producing and composing in the music classroom. Journal of Popular Music Education, 6(3), 1-18.

2020: Hein, E. Chris Thile, Kendrick Lamar, and the problem of the white rap cover. Visions of Research in Music Education, 35(1).

Programs

Music Education

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