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President
Ruth Solie
Vice-President
Candace Bailey
My research interests include music theory, sources studies and theories of transmission, gender studies, and social contexts. I have published extensively on British keyboard music of the seventeenth century, including two editions of music and a book entitled Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources. The next issue from Music & Letters will include my 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, I have a book on women and music in the antebellum American South forthcoming from the University of Southern Illinois Press. At North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC), I am an associate professor of musicology, Director of Global Studies, and Coordinator of the Ethnomusicology program. As vice president of NABMSA, I 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
Christina Fuhrmann
Assistant Professor of Music, Ashland University
Dr. Fuhrmann received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis with a dissertation titled “‘Adapted and Arranged for the English Stage’: Continental Operas Transformed for the London Theater, 1814-33.” She has published articles in Nineteenth-Century Music Review and in Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music, delivered lectures at Washington University and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and presented papers at numerous national and international conferences. Her current work focuses on theater music and imported opera in early nineteenth-century London.
Secretary
Nathaniel G. Lew
I received my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on British opera, opera policy, and opera funding in the period immediately following the Second World War. I have published on Vaughan Williams’s opera The Pilgrim’s Progress and am currently working on a performing edition of the 1906 incidental music that served as the source for that opera. I have delivered papers on Alan Bush’s Wat Tyler, and am researching a book on classical music and opera commissions, premieres, and performances in the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a performer, I sing tenor in the Vermont-based professional vocal ensemble Counterpoint. I teach music history and music theory at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, where I also direct the choral program. Most of you know me as the local host of the 2006 NABMSA meeting, which was held at St. Mike’s.
Webmaster
Louis Niebur
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Louis Niebur's research primarily concerns avant-garde and popular music of the post-war era, focusing on musics that bridge the categories of high and low culture in society through media technology. He has delivered and published papers on such topics as electronic television music in Britain, the use of sound effects as music in early radio drama, and the gendering of electronic sound production. He received a Master's degree in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles with a dissertation on the development of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the earliest electronic music studios. This project has been expanded into a book, to be published in summer 2010 by Oxford University Press.
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Board of Directors
Linda Phyllis Austern
Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University. She holds a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her primary specialty is music and culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, but her publications have covered material from the late fifteenth- through the twentieth centuries and have touched on France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands as well as Britain. She has published articles in such journals as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Letters, and Renaissance Quarterly, and in collections of essays on topics ranging from music and the visual arts to music and medicine to early modern women and music. Her monograph on music in one of the non-Shakespearean theatrical traditions of late Elizabethan and Jacobean England was published with Gordon and Breach, and she has edited and co-edited collections of essays with Routledge and Indiana University Press. She is presently working on a monograph about music in English life and thought 1550-1650, and a co-edited collection on psalms in the early modern Atlantic world.
Brooke Bryant
Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center University
I am a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I am enrolled in the interdisciplinary Renaissance Certificate Program. A CUNY Writing Fellow, I work with undergraduates on learning through writing at the College of Staten Island. My dissertation uses early modern optics to theorize the role of gesture in seventeenth-century singing. I also research popular music, and have presented papers on punk rock and the British trip-hop band Portishead.
A soprano, I specialize in performing seventeenth-century English music. I have staged concerts of seventeenth-century British songs and theatrical productions with period gesture, including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Roberta Marvin
Eric Saylor
Assistant Professor, Drake University
Eric Saylor is Assistant Professor of Music History at Drake University. He 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 music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has focused on the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams in both his master’s thesis (“‘If Silence Could Speak’: A Reassessment of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony”) and doctoral dissertation (“The Significance of Nation in the Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams”). During the 1998 academic year, Dr. Saylor served as editorial assistant at the British Library (London) helping collect, transcribe, and annotate Vaughan Williams’s complete correspondence. He has presented papers at the University of New Mexico, the University of Michigan, the British Library, Oberlin College, and the University of Paris, and recently served on the program committee, presented a paper, and chaired a session for NABMSA’s second biennial conference. He is currently helping co-edit a collection of essays on opera and blackness, to which he will be contributing an article on Frederick Delius’s opera Koanga, and is pursuing studies of English pastoral music of the early twentieth century.
Christopher Scheer
Aidan Thomson
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Committees
Awards Committee
Christina Fuhrmann, chair
Janet Pollack
Katherine Preston
Bibliographic Review Committee
Jennifer Oates, chair
Jane Girdham
Brooks Kuykendall
Donna Parsons
Book Series Committee
Jenny Doctor, chair
Byron Adams
Stacey Houck
Eric Saylor
Development Committee
Byron Adams and Allan Atlas, chairs
Gary Cannon
Renée Clark
Christina Fuhrmann
Eric Hung
Kevin Pih
Janet Pollack
Newsletter Committee
Kendra Leonard, chair
Brooks Kuykendall
Andrew Nardone
Donna Parsons
Eric Saylor
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