LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO JSAM 1/1 (February 2007)
Philip Gentry is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Musicology at the University
of California at Los Angeles, where his research focuses on modernist and popular midtwentieth-century American music. His dissertation explores the relationships among
music, politics, and sexuality during the era of McCarthyism.
Shana Goldin-Perschbacher is completing her Ph.D. in the Critical and Comparative
Studies in Music program at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “Vocality,
Listening, and Intimacy: Gender Transgression in Popular Music, 1990-2005,” explores
performances by Jeff Buckley, Meshell Ndegeócello, Björk, and Antony Hegarty. Her
essay on Buckley will be published in Oh Boy!: Masculinities and Popular Music, edited
by Freya Jarmen-Ivens (Routledge, in press).
Rob Haskins is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of New Hampshire. His
research interests include John Cage, American minimalism, music for film, and cultural
studies. He is currently writing a biography on Cage for Reaktion Books’s Critical Lives
Series and has performed works of Cage at various conferences in the U.S. and England;
his recording of Cage’s Two2 (with Laurel Karlik Sheehan) is scheduled to be released
by Mode Records in 2007.
Joseph Lanza is the author of numerous books that concentrate mostly on popular music
and film. They include Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening and
Other Moodsong; Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy, and Misadventures of
Nicolas Roeg; Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique; Vanilla Pop: Sweet Sounds
from Frankie Avalon to ABBA, as well as an essay for The Cartoon Music Book.
His newest book is Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films (Chicago Review Press).
George E. Lewis, improvisor-trombonist, composer, and computer/installation artist, is
the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. Lewis has
served as music curator for the Kitchen in New York, and has been a member of the
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971. A 2002
MacArthur Fellow, Lewis’s work is documented on more than 120 recordings, and his
published articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes.
Ted Olson is Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies and English at East Tennessee
State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is the author of several books, including
Blue Ridge Folklife and Breathing in Darkness: Poems. Additionally, he has edited
numerous books, including CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, the music section of
The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, and The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang
of Country Music (the latter book was co-edited with Charles K. Wolfe).
Nikos Pappas is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky and the Associate
Director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music. His research specialties
include orchestral, band, and sacred music traditions with a particular emphasis on the
trans-Appalachian West. He is currently completing his dissertation, "Patterns in the
Sacred Musical Culture of the American South and West (1760-1860)."
Howard Pollack is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of
Houston. His most recent book is George Gershwin: His Life and Work.
Christopher Reynolds is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. He
has written extensively on music of the Renaissance and nineteenth-century Germany. He
is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti, and the Humboldt Foundation. His
book Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music (Harvard
University Press, 2003) was a finalist for the Otto Kinkeldey Award. He has held Visiting
Professorships at Yale, Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and the
University of Heidelberg.
Suzanne Robinson is a Research Fellow in music at the University of Melbourne,
Australia. She is the editor of Michael Tippett: Music and Literature (Ashgate, 2002),
and has published articles on Britten, Tippett, and the Australian-American composer and
critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks in American Music, Australasian Music Research,
Musicology Australia, and Music Review. She is currently writing a biography of
Glanville-Hicks.
Denise Von Glahn is Associate Professor of Musicology at Florida State University’s
College of Music, where she teaches courses in American and twentieth-century music.
She is the author of The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape
(Northeastern University Press, 2003). Michael Broyles is Distinguished Professor of
Music and Professor of American History at The Pennsylvania State University. His
most recent book is Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music (Yale University
Press, 2004). Together they have published a critical edition of Ornstein’s Piano
Quintette (A-R Editions, 2005) and wrote Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal
Choices (Indiana University Press, in press).