Robert Lagueux

Robert Lagueux is associate vice president for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies at Berklee College of Music. A music historian and Fulbright Scholar, he has led teaching and learning initiatives at institutions including the University of Chicago and Northeastern University, and has presented internationally on topics ranging from Leonard Bernstein to medieval holiday traditions. For Berklee Online, he authored Culminating Experience in Music Business 1 and 2, Music Business Research Methods, and Music, Self, and Society.




Writing Songs with Narrative Gaps

Why did Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” create so many myths? Its mood is solemn, even mysterious, and its lyrics are replete with gaps of meaning: it invites the listener to make sense of it.