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Charles Garrett
Associate Professor of Musicology
cgarr@umich.edu
734-764-0232
Office: 800 BMT
Education: B.A. (Computer Science), B.A. (Music), Columbia Univ.
M.A., Ph.D. (Musicology), Univ. of California-Los Angeles Charles Hiroshi Garrett joined the U-M faculty after obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His graduate work was supported by an AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship as well as an AMS-50 Fellowship, and his dissertation received the Wiley Housewright Award from the Society for American Music. His book Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, published by University of California Press in 2008, was awarded the Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award by the Society for American Music and Honorable Mention for the Woody Guthrie Award by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Branch). He currently serves as editor-in-chief for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, a key reference work that will appear on-line and as a multi-volume print publication. He is also working on a new book project on music and humor.
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. He currently serves as the undergraduate musicology advisor for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and as one of the departmental advisors for the LSA Music Concentration/Minor.
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