Author: Jason Gersh
Jason Gersh completed a PhD in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and works as an administrator at Drexel University in Philadelphia. His research interests include the rhetoric of Renaissance sacred music, the application of evolutionary theory to musicology, and the philosophy of musical analysis.
A Humanist in God’s Country
I am a musicologist who specializes in sacred music. I am also an atheist. For years, I treated these two aspects of my life separately: I could appreciate sacred music as a musicologist and dispute the existence of God as an atheist. There seemed no need to mix the two. But I have come to …