Ph.D., Musicology, Boston University

Dissertation: “‘Experiments Alien to Carnegie Hall’: Musical Modernism and the American Popular Theater” (originally “Missed Cues: Music in the American Spoken Theater c. 1935-1965”)

Advisors: Joshua Rifkin, Carol J. Oja (Harvard)

 

Specialties: American song, theater music, general music history, English Renaissance song, film music

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Current research: Frederich Hollander and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; song covers; the influence of film on theater music; vocal polystylism

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Recent publications: American Music, The Tennessee Williams Annual Review