List of JSAM Contributors (2/3, August 2008)
Contributors
John Bealle is the author of Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (University of Georgia Press, 1997) and other works on Sacred Harp singing and on American music and dance. He lives in Cincinnati.
Walter Aaron Clark is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Riverside, and directs the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. His books include Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic (Oxford University Press, 1999), From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music (Routledge, 2002), and Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is the editor of the Oxford series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.
Carol A. Hess, Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University, researches the music of the Americas and Spain. Her work has received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (2002), the Robert M. Stevenson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Iberian Music (2004), and the Society for American Music’s Lowens Article Award (1998). She has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer (Spain, 1998; Argentina, 2005) and is presently completing a book on Pan Americanism and music during the first half of the twentieth century.
Edmond Johnson is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the nexus of music and technology, as well as the revival and reinvention of early music during the first decades of the twentieth century. He is currently writing his dissertation, titled “Revival and Antiquation: Modernism’s Musical Pasts.”
Tammy L. Kernodle is Associate Professor of Musicology at Miami University. She is the author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams (Northeastern University Press, 2004) and has served as the Scholar-in-Residence for the Women in Jazz Initiative at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work has appeared in The Musical Quarterly, American Music Research Journal, and the edited volume Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds (Northeastern University Press, 2003).
Frederick Moehn is Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University. His research interests include music of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as jazz cultures. In his work he focuses on questions of race, gender, class, and national identity in relation to music technologies and production aesthetics, citizenship, civil society, social movements, and new media and intellectual property. He is a Howard Foundation Fellow at Brown University for 2008–9.
Raquel Z. Rivera is a researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and numerous articles on popular music and culture, she is co-editing an anthology titled Reggaeton with Wayne Marshall and Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
Lauryn Salazar is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research explores the development of the mariachi tradition in the United States from the nineteenth century to its current performance practice. She is also an active mariachi musician and teacher.
Paul Steinbeck earned his Ph.D. in music theory at Columbia University. His research focuses on the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s use of multimedia and the social implications of Art Ensemble performance practice, and has been published in the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. With Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, he is co-author of Exercises for the Creative Musician (Many Weathers Music, 2002), a method book for improvisers. Steinbeck is also a bassist, improviser, composer, and recording artist.
Joseph N. Straus is Presidential Professor of Music Theory at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book, on twelve-tone music in the United States, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He is a former president of the Society for Music Theory.
George Torres received his Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University. His research examines seventeenth-century French lute performance and the Latin American bolero romántico. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Lute Society of America, Notes, American Music, The Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Symposium. He is currently Associate Professor of Music at Lafayette College, where he teaches courses in music history and Latin American music.
Denise Von Glahn is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University. Her book The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003) won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2004. Her most recent book, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, co-authored with Michael Broyles, was published by Indiana University Press in 2007. She has published extensively on Charles Ives.
Mina Yang is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. She is the author of California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads (University of Illinois Press, 2008.