TEACHING
Lessons
Luis has a deep passion for introducing students to approaches that will enable them to enhance their artistic output. He offers lessons online and in person.
luismcdougalmusic@gmail.com
Recommended Reading:
Below is an ever expanding list of books that have had an impact on how I view art and the world. I recommend this reading list because I believe artists and art lovers alike benefit from critically understanding material conditions around them.
Music Practice/Concepts:
Learn Better, Perform Faster - Dr. Molly Gebrian
The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Dr. Rashid Khalidi
Expulsions - Dr. Saskia Sassen
A Subversive History of Music - Ted Gioia
Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art - André Breton & Diego River
The ‘Beautiful’ in Music Today - Helmut Lachenmann
Socio-Political-Economic Theory/History:
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
State and Revolution; Religion; Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism; ‘Cultural-National’ Autonomy; On the Jewish Question - V. I. Lenin
Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx
Towards a New Socialism - Paul Cockschott & Allin F. Cottrell
The Wretched of The Earth - Franz Fanon
Soledad Brother; Blood in My Eye - George Jackson
Defying Dispalcement - Andrew Lee
The Unknown Cultural Revolution - Dongping Han
Beyond Time and Changes - Hal Crook