Katharina Uhde, DMA, PhD, is Associate Professor of Music at Valparaiso University. She is the author of The Music of Joseph Joachim (Boydell & Brewer, 2018). Her articles on Joseph Joachim have appeared in journals including Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and The Musical Times, and The Musical Quarterly. Uhde has written […]
Adolfo Estrada is an Assistant Professor in the School of Music and Director of Latin Music Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. His research focuses on historical and contemporary mariachi performance practice. Utilizing Victor Turner’s notion of communitas, his dissertation, “Ritual and […]
Mariachi Nueva Generación (MNG) became a class at Texas State University in the fall of 1997. MNG is dedicated to the study and performance of all genres associated with mariachi, including, among others, the son, the huapango, the bolero, and the polka. Since its creation, […]
The acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as […]
Chris Flicek is a professional videographer and photographer living in Cincinnati, OH with his wife Erin. He graduated from Saint Olaf College in 2017 with a degree in Economics. Connecting with people and helping tell their stories through video and photos is his passion. When […]
Dan Groll is a Professor of Philosophy at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He works in ethics, with a special focus on family ethics and gamete donation. His book Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation was published by Oxford […]
Louis Epstein is Associate Professor of Music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. His book The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France was published by The Boydell Press in 2022. His articles appear in Music & Politics, Journal of Musicology, and The […]
North Georgia native Rob McMaken has developed a tasteful and exciting accompaniment style on lap dulcimer, mandolin, guitar, and banjo-uke, effortlessly shifting between note-for-note melody, harmonic counterpoint, and rhythmic drones harkening back to the Old World. Before immersing himself in old-time music, Rob traversed musical traditions […]
As a youngster, Jason Cade began learning rare tunes and an older style of playing from master fiddler and tune-catcher Bruce Greene, his neighbor growing up in Yancey County, NC. Jason’s old-time music is also heavily influenced by his mother’s fiddle teacher, the late Byard Ray […]
Evan Kinney grew up in a family of old-time music in his native Kennesaw, Georgia. He learned from his father at an early age and has continued to hone his skills by studying the eccentric playing of 20s recording artists such as John Dilleshaw, The […]