Many Musics of America

Artist Category: Chapter Organizer

Samuel Dorf

Samuel N. Dorf is a musicologist and dance historian. He has published articles and books dealing with the performance and reinvention of ancient Greek music and dance in fin-de-siècle Paris, and queer music reception and has presented papers at history, queer studies, dance history, classics […]

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Virginia Whealton

Virginia E. Whealton is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Texas Tech University. A scholar of nineteenth-century music, her research focuses on two areas: 1) Parisian music, specifically on Romantic musicians’ travel writings and travel-inspired compositions, and their role in shaping musicians’ public image and […]

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Alfred Cramer

Alfred Cramer

Alfred Cramer is a musicologist, music theorist, and violinist whose work encompasses historical, cultural, and cognitive outlooks on the notion of music as a language. His past work has focused on German modernism from Schumann to Schoenberg, and current projects explore the musical significance of […]

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Catherine Provenzano

Catherine Provenzano

Catherine Provenzano’s research focuses on voice, instrumentality, labor, and technology as they intersect class, race, and gender in US popular culture. Currently she is writing a cultural history and ethnography of pitch correction softwares (Auto-Tune, Melodyne), and researching the political economy of sound and software […]

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Rebecca Marchand

Rebecca Marchand

Rebecca Marchand is a musicologist specializing in contemporary American concert music and served as the President of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society from 2012 to 2016. She is Professor of Core Studies at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she teaches topics […]

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Sarah Eyerly

Sarah Eyerly

Sarah Eyerly is Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor and Associate Professor of Musicology at Florida State University. Her first book, Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early America (Indiana University Press, 2020), received the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society, […]

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Robert Shay

Robert Shay

Robert Shay is professor of musicology and former dean of the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. His writings on the music of Henry Purcell and seventeenth-century England are well known, particularly the book Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (co-authored with Robert Thompson), […]

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Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen L. Carlson, Ph.D., is a musicologist and professor of music history and culture at Towson University, where she teaches courses in jazz, film music, and music in the United States, among others. She has authored several articles focusing on jazz and film, featured in […]

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Evan MacCarthy

Evan A. MacCarthy teaches music history in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, as well as late medieval Roman and Milanese chant and liturgy, early modern diplomacy […]

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