Gabe C. AlfieriPhD
musicology n. the study of music in cultural/historical contexts
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
Current research:
Frederich Hollander and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; song covers & "vocal polystylism"; American theater music
Recent publications:
The Tennessee Williams Annual Review
Other Work:
Collage, Pop-Art & Politics in Richard Cumming’s We Happy Few
On the Tone Production of the Javanese Pesindhèn
Court Connections, Italian Influences, Progressive Poetics: William Byrd and the Elizabethan Sonnet
Analysis: Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra (1939)
Text & Context: Common Sense in Song Analysis
Identities Masked & Unmasked: Racial Politics in the 19th-c. American Theater