Charles Garrett

Profile

Instructor, Musicology

Faculty Associate, American Culture Program

Professor Garrett joined the U-M faculty after obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation focuses on the intersections of race, class, and nation in music of the United States over the last century.  His research and teaching interests focus primarily on 20th-century music, American music, jazz, popular music, music and racial/ethnic representation, and cultural theory.  He has presented papers at a wide variety of national and international conferences, and his articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Echo, Notes, and American Music, a journal for which he now serves  as review editor for multimedia products.  Professor Garrett is a past recipient of several major prizes, including the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship and the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society as well as the 2002 Mark Tucker Award from the Society of American Music.  He currently serves as the undergraduate musicology advisor for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Memberships

American Musicological Society

Society for American Music

Center for Black Music Research

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Publications

“Sleights of Time in the Music of Cassandra Wilson,” in Sign of the Times, edited by Steven Baur and Jacqueline Warwick.  (forthcoming)

“Louis Armstrong and the Sound of Migration,” in Playing Changes: New Directions in Jazz Scholarship, edited by Robert Walser.  Duke University Press (forthcoming).

“Chinatown, Whose Chinatown?  Defining America’s Borders with Musical Orientalism.”  Journal of the American Musicological Society 57:1 (2004): 119–73.

“Engaging Students,” in Teaching Controversial Aspects of American Music: A Panel Discussion.  ECHO – a music-centered journal 6: 2 (Fall 2004). Online at http://www.echo.ucla.edu.

Review Essay.  “Louis Armstrong:  The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings.”  American Music 22:2 (2004): 331–37.

Conference Report.  “Isn’t It A Pity?  Criss Cross: Conversations About America’s Music, ECHO-a music-centered journal 5:1 (Spring 2003).  Online at http://www.echo.ucla.edu.

Book Review.  “Stuart Nicholson, Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington.” Notes – Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 58:2 (2001): 374–75.

Papers and Presentations

“Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, Cleveland, Ohio, March 10–14, 2004.

"The Production of Chinatown: Preparing a Journal Article," presented at the Music of the Americas Study Group meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 17, 2004.

“Teaching Controversial Aspects of American Music,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, Cleveland, Ohio, March 10–14, 2004.

“Nation Building in a Post-national World: Popular Music, Commercial Sports, and Corporate America,” presented at Practising Popular Music, the 12th biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Montreal, Canada, July 3, 2003.

“Chinatown, Whose Chinatown?  Defining the Nation with Musical Orientalism,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, Tempe, Arizona, February 27, 2003.

Also presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Branch), Cleveland, Ohio, October 13, 2002.

“Louis Armstrong and the Sound of Migration,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Columbus, Ohio, November 1, 2002.  Also presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, Lexington, Kentucky, March 10, 2002.

“‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’: Music, Sports, and Masculinity in Contemporary America,” presented at Crafting Sounds, Creating Meaning: Making Popular Music in the U.S., Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington, April 13, 2002.

“Re-Orienting the Dragon: Film Music Representations of Asia and Asian America,”  presented at Music/Image in Media.  New York University, June 9, 2001.

Editorial Experience

Review Editor for Multimedia Products, American Music.  Journal of the Society for American Music.  2003–present.

Assistant Editor, American Music.  Journal of the Society for American Music.  2000–2001.

Founding Editorial Board Member and Web Designer, ECHO – a music-centered journal.  1999–2002. (http://www.echo.ucla.edu)

Teaching at the University of Michigan

History of Jazz (Musicology 417-517)

History of 20th-Century Music (Musicology 423-523)

Introduction to the Art of Music (Musicology 121)

History of Music (1750–present) (Musicology 346)

History of Popular Music (Musicology 123)

Contact Information

Professor Charles Hiroshi Garrett

University of Michigan

800 Burton Memorial Tower

Ann Arbor, MI. 48109–1270

Office Telephone: (734) 764-0232

Fax: (734) 647–1897

cgarr@umich.edu