Blair Faculty: Musicology & Ethnomusicology

MELANIE LOWE Associate Professor of Musicology; Chair of Musicology and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated Faculty in American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies
A.B. (Smith); M.F.A., Ph.D. (Princeton) E-mail

Publications include Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony (Indiana University Press, 2007) and articles and reviews in the Journal of Musicology, American Music, Popular Music and Society, Beethoven Forum, the world of music, Popular Music Scenes (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003), and The Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Lectures and scholarly papers presented throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Numerous awards, including the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Vanderbilt University, 2001) and the Princeton Graduate Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award (Princeton University, 1993). Member, American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, Society for American Music, College Music Society, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, American Studies Association. Taught classes at Princeton University, 1991-95; Princeton Adult School, 1994; La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), 1996. Blair School since 1998.

GREGORY BARZ Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, African American Studies. Faculty Head of House, North Hall, The Commons.
B.M. (North Carolina School of the Arts); M.A. (Chicago); Ph.D. (Brown) E-mail

Publications include Singing for Life: Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Routledge), Music in East Africa (Oxford), and Performing Religion (Rodopi), Shadows in the Field New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (co-edited, Oxford), in addition to journal and encyclopedia articles and reviews. Lectures and scholarly papers presented throughout the United States, Africa, Great Britain, and Canada. Numerous grants and awards including a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Ethnomusicology editor, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, recording review editor, World of Music. Recent research on music as medical intervention regarding HIV/AIDS in Africa. Classes at Vanderbilt on African Music, Jazz, Blues, World Music. Taught classes at University of Chicago, 1990/91; Brown University, 1993. Member of faculty: University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1993/94; University of Alberta, 1996/97; Ohio State University, 1997/98. Blair School since 1998. Gregory Barz's homepage

JOY H. CALICO Associate Professor of Musicology; Affiliated Faculty in European Studies, Film Studies, German Studies, and Jewish Studies
B.Mus. (Baylor University), M.M. (University of Illinois)), Ph.D. (Duke University) E-mail

Scholarly interests include opera, music and politics, cultural politics in the Soviet bloc, particularly the GDR. Her book Brecht at the Opera will be published by the University of California Press in 2008, in the series Studies in Twentieth-Century Music edited by Richard Taruskin. Articles and reviews published in Cambridge Opera Journal, JAMS, Musical Quarterly, Modern Drama, Opera Quarterly (forthcoming), Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2002), Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth (Wesleyan University Press, 2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (forthcoming). Articles in progress for two anthologies: Wagner and Cinema (Indiana University Press), and The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press). Her current research is on Schoenberg reception in West Germany in the 1950s. Research supported by DAAD, NEH, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, and the American Academy in Berlin. Papers and colloquia presented in North America, Europe, and Australia. Previously on the musicology faculty at the University of Houston (1999) and at Illinois Wesleyan University (1999-2003), where she was also Coordinator of Russian and East European Studies. Blair School since 2003. [Photo: Mike Minehan, Berlin]

DALE COCKRELL Professor of Musicology
B.M., M.M., Ph.D. (Illinois) E-mail

Publications include Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World (1997, Cambridge University Press; recipient of Hugh Holman Award for best book in Southern Studies); Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846 (1989, Pendragon Press; recipient of Irving Lowens Award for best book in American music); Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder (CD); The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie (CD); and other books, articles, scholarly editions of music, and reviews. Lectures and papers presented throughout the world. Numerous grants and awards. Founder and President of Pa's Fiddle Recordings, LLC, an educational enterprise dedicated to producing recordings of the music embedded in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Member: American Antiquarian Society (elected, 1995); American Musicological Society; College Music Society; International Association for the Study of Popular Music; Society for American Music (President, 1995-97). Member of faculty: University of Natal (South Africa), 1974-76; Indiana University, 1978; Dartmouth College, 1978/79; 1981; Middlebury College, 1979-85; College of William and Mary, 1985-96. Blair School since 1996.

CYNTHIA CYRUS Associate Dean; Associate Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies
B.A. (Pomona), M.A., Ph.D. (North Carolina, Chapel Hill) E-mail

Additional Studies: NEH Summer Institute Participant, "A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing (Venice, London, Paris, 1550-1700)," July 2003; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ohio State University 1990/91. Recent scholarly work has concentrated on scribes and libraries in women's convents of late medieval Germany and on musical literacy in late medieval France. Co-director of NEH-sponsored project, "Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Renaissance: Students, Teachers, and Materials of Musical Learning, 1520-1650." Publications include articles and reviews in musicological and historical journals and Festschriften and "De tous biens plaine": Twenty-Eight Settings of Hayne van Ghizeghem's Chanson (Madison: A-R Editions, 2000). Numerous formal papers presented at musicological and interdisciplinary conferences in Europe and the United States; frequent guest lectures on a variety of musical topics. Member of faculty: University of Rochester, 1991/92; SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992-94. Blair School since 1994. Cynthia Cyrus's homepage

JAMES FOGLESONG Adjunct Professor of Music Business
B.M. (Eastman) E-mail

Recitals, choral concerts, television, Broadway, and recording studio work with Fred Waring, Walter Schuman, Ray Charles, and Arturo Toscanini. Producer, Columbia and RCA records for Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Norman Luboff Choir, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Sergio Franchi, and Al Hirt, 1953-70. Artist/Repertoire Department head, Dot Records, Nashville, 1970-73. President: Dot Records, 1973/74; ABC Records, Nashville, 1974-79; Nashville division, MCA Records, 1979-84; Nashville division, Capitol Records, 1984-89. Board of Directors, Howard Hanson Memorial Institute of American Music (Eastman School of Music), 1997-99. Former chairman, Board of Directors, Country Music Association. President: Board of Directors, W. O. Smith Community Music School. Chairman: Board of Trustees, Country Music Foundation; Metro Arts Commission; Board of Directors, Nashville Symphony Association. Blair School since 1991.

JEN GUNDERMAN Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature
B.A.(Vassar), M.A. (Washington) E-mail

Additional studies: Piano study with Blanca Uribe and Todd Crowe. Heidelberg-Mannheim Hochschule fuer Musik (piano study with Eugen Polus) and the University of Mannheim, Germany. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Tours in U.S., Canada, and Europe with Dag (Columbia Records), Jayhawks (American/Columbia Records), and Caitlin Cary (Yep Roc Records). Performances at Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center, NYC) and the Barbican Center (London, UK) as well as clubs, theaters, festivals, ampitheaters and arenas. Numerous radio appearances in U.S., Canada and Europe. Recordings for Columbia Records and Yep Roc Records as well as independently-released CDs. Appearances on The Craig Kilbourne Show, Viva Variety, MTV - Europe, and other television programs in U.S., Canada and Europe. Appearances with Roger McGuinn (Byrds), Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), Vic Chesnutt, and others. Visiting Instructor, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, 1996-7 and 1999. Blair School since 2004.

MICHAEL S. HIME Lecturer in Music Literature and Technology Liaison
B.A., M.M. (Peabody) E-mail

Student of conducting with Thor Johnson. Nashville Chamber Brass Society, 1972-80; Nashville Symphony Chorus, 1973-81; Nashville Jazz Machine, 1975-80. Assistant conductor, Nashville University Center Orchestra, 1973-75; assistant conductor, Nashville Symphony Chorus, 1973-81; assistant to the conductor, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, 1980-81. Director of Choral Activities, Vanderbilt University, 1976-97. Member of faculty: University School of Nashville, 1975/76; Vanderbilt University, College of Arts and Science, 1979-84. Blair School since 1985.

DOUGLAS LEE Professor of Musicology, Emeritus
B.Mus. (DePauw); M.Mus., Ph.D. (Michigan) E-mail

Additional studies: University of Maryland. Publications include journal and encyclopedia articles, books on music of the 18th century and modern orchestral music, scholarly editions of 18th century music, and reviews. Contributing editor, The C.P.E. Bach Edition. Lectures and papers presented throughout the United States. Numerous grants, among them awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, Packard Humanities Institute (Cambridge, MA). Named to "Outstanding Educators of America," 1973. Member of faculty: Mount Union College (Ohio), 1959-61; National Music Camp, Interlochen, 1959-62; Wichita State University, 1964-86. Member, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, American Musicological Society, College Music Society. Blair School since 1986.

JIM LOVENSHEIMER Assistant Professor of Musicology
BM (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) MA, PhD (Ohio State) E-mail

Additional studies: University Of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Musical Theater Performance. Publications include encyclopedia articles, articles, chapters, and reviews in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (forthcoming), The Sondheim Review, and The Kurt Weill Newsletter. Papers include those for the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Susan Porter Memorial Symposium on Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater on topics including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, blackface minstrelsy, gender representation in nineteenth-century American theatrical performance, and early eighteenth-century Parisian operatic parody. Music performance credits include work with Krzysztof Pendercki, Robert Shaw, and Marshall Haddock. Acting/musical theater master classes with Lehman Engel, Word Baker, and Paddy Edwards. Continuing activity in professional theater includes acting, playwriting, musical supervision/direction, and dramaturgy. Blair School since 2002.

HELENA SIMONETT Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Literature and History
M.A. (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Current research focuses on ceremonial music making/dancing among indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, a farming region heavily affected by modern agricultural technologies and by neo-liberal projects such as NAFTA, and on the resilience of indigenous cultural identity in contemporary Mexican society. Publications include Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders(2001, Wesleyan University Press) and En Sinaloa nací: Historia de la música de banda (2004, Asociación de Gestores del Patrimonio Histórico y Cultural de Mazatlán), as well as numerous journal and encyclopedia articles, book chapters, and book/CD/DVD reviews. Presented papers and lectures throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, and appeared frequently on radio throughout Mexico. Book review editor of the journal the world of music (University of Bamberg, Germany). Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, International Council for Traditional Music, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Latin America, Latin American Studies Association, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, College Music Society. Taught at the University of Zurich, 1999. Blair School since 2000. Helena Simonett's homepage.

SEAN Y. WANG Lecturer in Music History
B.M., Curtis (violin), M.M., Juilliard (conducting), Ph.D. Stanford (ABD, musicology and humanities)
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Additional studies, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music. Dissertation (in progress): Reflections of Linear Time in the Music of Brahms; teaching staff, Stanford University, 2001-04 - courses taught included music history, music theory, aural studies, humanities; author, CD liner notes for Green House Music in Germany, Altus Music in Japan; formal papers presented at regional and international conferences; reviewer, San Francisco Classical Voice. Appearances as violinist at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, Lincoln Center, as well as Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), Evian Festival (France), Thy Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), OK Mozart International Festival (Oklahoma), San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival (California), MusicSources Center for Historically Informed Performances (California), Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma; violinist-in-residence, Guild of Composers, Inc. (New York City); first prize winner, National Music Competition of Taiwan; TV and radio broadcasts, Taiwan (Public Television Service), Denmark (DR2), Boston (WGBH), Philadelphia (WFLN). Appearances as conductor with the Juilliard Lab Orchestra, Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Savoyards, Stanford Summer Orchestra. Scholarship recipient, Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship at the Juilliard School, Chi-Mei Culture Foundation in Taiwan. Student of Rafael Druian, Otto-Werner Mueller, Jacques-Louis Monod, Sylvia Rosenberg, Lynn Chang. Blair School since 2007.