Now he's about to take on rock and roll. By Ray Sawhil Robert Winter is not out for a lazy country drive. He's changing lanes as often as staying in them. He outguns one driver, noses in front of another, rams to a stop, then blasts off again. Well, certainly not your traditional example.
Winter is part of a new generation of scholars who are reinventing music studies.
His head's as full of Middle Eastern music and Tupac Shakur as it is of Schubert. At the same time, he's among the first masters of multimedia. Winter's publisher, The Voyager Company, has produced. Recently, Winter decided to make a run at digital mogulhood. I've too often heard Voyager spoken of as appealing to a niche market.