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President
Charles McGuire (through 2013)
Associate Professor of Musicology, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin OH
Charles Edward McGuire is the author of Elgar’s Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative (Ashgate, 2002) and Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge, 2009) and the co-author, with Steven Plank, of the Historical Dictionary of English Music (Scarecrow Press, 2011). His particular interest is the social history of British music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he has published numerous essays on the music of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, temperance and music, and the Tonic Sol-fa movement in various journals and collections of essays. Mr. McGuire was Vice President of NABMSA from 2003 to 2006.
Vice-President
Candace Bailey (through 2012)
Associate Professor of Musicology, Director of Global Studies, and Coordinator of the Ethnomusicology Program, North Carolina Central University, Durham NC
Candace Bailey’s research interests include music theory, sources studies and theories of transmission, gender studies, and social contexts. She has published extensively on British keyboard music of the seventeenth century, including two editions of music and a book entitled Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources. Music & Letters recently published her article “‘Elizabeth Rogers hir virginall booke’ in context,” and other articles may be found in The Journal of Musicological Research, Revue de musicologie, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Early Keyboard Music, Fontes artis musicae, and elsewhere. In addition to these works, she has a book on women and music in the antebellum American South forthcoming from the University of Southern Illinois Press. As vice president of NABMSA, she would like to reach out to North American scholars of early British music and try to bring their level of participation closer to that of scholars of later music.
Treasurer
Vicki Stroeher (through 2012)
Associate Professor of Music, Marshall University, Huntington WV
Secretary
Nathaniel G. Lew (through 2013)
Associate Professor of Fine Arts/Music, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester VT
Nathaniel G. Lew is Associate Professor of Music at Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he teaches music history, music theory, and humanities, and directs the choral program. He is working on a book on music and opera in the 1951 Festival of Britain. He has published and delivered papers on Vaughan Williams’s various Pilgrim’s Progress projects and edited the 1906 incidental music that served as the original source for those works, as well as Vaughan Williams’s incidental music to The Mayor of Casterbridge. Nathaniel also sings tenor and is the Associate Artistic Director of the Vermont-based professional vocal ensemble Counterpoint.
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Board of Directors
Samantha Bassler (through 2012)
Ph.D. Candidate, The Open University
Roberta Marvin (through 2012)
Research Scholar, Associate Professor of International Studies, and Director of the Institute for Italian Opera Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Roberta Montemorra Marvin is the author of Verdi the Student – Verdi the Teacher (Parma, 2010); co-editor of four volumes, most recently Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Cambridge, 2010) and Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries (Ashgate, 2006, short-listed for the AMS’s Ruth Solie Award in 2007), Associate General Editor for the critical edition of Verdi’s works, series editor for Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera, and editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. She has published widely on the music of Verdi and Rossini, in particular on social context, reception, censorship, textual criticism, and performance practices and has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Fulbright program, and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, among other organizations. Her work on Italian opera in England will yield two forthcoming books: Verdi and the Victorians (Boydell) and The Politics of Verdi’s “Cantica” (RMA Monographs, Ashgate). A study of portrayals of female singers in Victorian London will be published in The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss (Oxford).
Jennifer Oates (through 2014)
Associate Professor of Music, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York NY, and Head of the Music Library, Queens College
Jennifer Oates's research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British music with particular interest in Scottish art music, Scotland in music, and Sir Granville Bantock. She is writing the first biography of the Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916) for Ashgate’s Nineteenth-Century British Music series and her critical edition of MacCunn’s concert overtures recently appeared in Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries series. In addition to presenting papers at national and international conferences, she has published articles on British music, information literacy and music librarianship in Europe, and empire and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music in various journals, including Studies in Musical Theatre, College Music Symposium, and Music Reference Services Quarterly. Oates, one of the NABMSA founders, has previously served as the society’s webmaster.
Philip Rupprecht (through 2013)
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Musicology, Duke University, Durham NC
Eric Saylor (through 2012)
Associate Professor of Music History, Drake University, Des Moines IA
Eric Saylor holds an M.A. in Musicology from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan. His main area of specialization is British art music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He has presented papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the North American British Music Studies Association, as well as for the International Conference on Music Since 1900 (University of York), the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (Durham University), and the International Congress on Musical Signification (Université de Paris).He also served for a period as editorial assistant to Hugh Cobbe on Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958, recently published by Oxford University Press. He has had reviews and articles published in the journals Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Musik-Konzepte,The Musical Quarterly, and in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the representation of blackness in opera (to be published by the University of Illinois Press) to which he will be contributing an article on Frederick Delius’s opera Koanga. He is also pursuing studies of English pastoral music of the early twentieth century.
Derek Scott (through 2014)
Professor of Critical Musicology and Head of the School of Music, University of Leeds, England
Derek B. Scott is the author of The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour (1989, R/2001), From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology (2003), Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna (2008), and Musical Style and Social Meaning (2010). His edited volumes include Music, Culture, and Society: A Reader (2000), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology (2009).
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Committees
2012 Conference Committees:
Local Arrangements:
Christina Bashford (University of Illinois), chair
Nicholas Temperley (University of Illinois, emeritus)
Program Committee:
Kendra Preston Leonard (Independent Scholar), chair
Alain Frogley (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University)
Brooks Kuykendall (Erskine College)
Vicki Stroeher (Marshall University)
Bill Weber (California State University, Long Beach)
Development:
Byron Adams, (University of California, Riverside), chair
Robert Marvin (University of Iowa)
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University)
Book Review:
Christina Bashford (University of Illinois), chair
Linda Austern (Northwestern University)
Christopher Scheer (Utah State University)
Derek Scott (University of Leeds)
Newsletter Editorial Board:
Eric Saylor (Drake University), chair
Therese Ellsworth (Independent Scholar)
Jennifer Oates (Queen’s College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Liz Wood (Independent Scholar)
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Newsletter Editor
TBA
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