Marathonpacks is me, Eric Harvey. When I’m not blogging, I’m a PhD candidate at Indiana University, in the departments of Communication and Culture andEthnomusicology.  My dissertation will focus on the ways in which new technologies have impacted music circulation and value; I’ll be researching and writing it for the next few years.  During 2010-11, I’m a Mellon Graduate Fellow for IU’s Sawyer Seminar, titled “Rupture and Flow.”  Expect a lot of what you see here to pertain to that sort of thing. Recently, I’ve written a chapter for the volume Managing Media Work (Sage).

For beer money: I’ve written a bunch for Pitchfork.com, reviewing albums, tracks, and writing a short-lived column for the site.  I did one review that ended up on ABC News, and it’s here.  There’s also The Social History of the mp3, This is Not A Photograph (about found photography as album covers), The Soundtrack of Our Lives (music in Rear Window), and Bad Moon Rising: The Practical Lessons of Sonic Youth.

I’ve written for a few other places too, including Rolling Stone, Spin, the Atlantic, theVillage Voice, the Onion A.V. Club, the Arizona Republic, and SF Weekly. I kept a South by Southwest diary for North Carolina’s Indyweek, and scrawled some stuff for the dearly departed Stylus and Idolator.

From 2000-2002, I shot and edited quite a few documentaries for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and PBS, on everything from the Army’s sniper school, to UFO fanatics in Roswell, to demolition derby drivers in Wisconsin, to the best vineyards in the midwest, inter alia.  I never want to do that again.

If you’d like to see some examples of what I do here, check out the archives.  If you’d like to see who else I like to read online, dig the blogroll.

If you’d like to get hold of me for any reason, hit me up at marathonpacks at g mail dot com.  I have an annoyingly hyperactive Twitter account here, a Tumblr here, and if you dig, I’m on Facebook too.