About the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department

Department chair: Melanie Lowe

For an intimate music school with only 200 undergraduate majors, Blair's Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology is large and diverse.

Our scholarly specializations range from Gregorian chant choir books to Schoenberg reception in postwar Europe, from Broadway musicals to the blues, from musical literacy in medieval France to music as medical intervention in present-day Africa, and from the politics of music in the Austrian Enlightenment to religious ceremonies among indigenous peoples northwestern Mexico.

Courses in musicology and ethnomusicology situate European, American, and Global musics in the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which they were created while also considering the locations and meanings of this music in our own time and culture. In the classroom, our mission is to offer the highest quality of engaging, interactive teaching in the best tradition of undergraduate liberal arts education.

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Faculty

	Gregory F. Barz Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology); Associate Professor of Religion	Email Website 615-343-5177 1195 Blair
	Steve Buckingham Adjunct Instructor in Music History	Email
	Joy H. Calico Associate Professor of Musicology; Director, Max Kade Center for European and German Studies	Email 615-322-2628 243 Buttrick
	Dale Cockrell Professor of Musicology, Emeritus
	Peter Cooper Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature	Email Website
	Cynthia J. Cyrus Professor of Musicology Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education	Email (615) 322-5041 101 Kirkland Hall
	Robert Webb Fry Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature	Email (615) 343-3092 3128 Blair
	Jen Gunderman Senior Lecturer in Music History	Email (615) 322-4913 2123 Blair
	Michael S. Hime Senior Lecturer in Music Literature	Email (615) 343-3166 2126 Blair
	Douglas A. Lee Professor of Musicology, Emeritus	Email
	Jim Lovensheimer Associate Professor of Musicology	Email (615) 322-8868 3155 Blair
	Melanie Lowe Associate Professor of Musicology; Chair of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Department	Email (615) 343-3169 2108 Blair
	James V. Maiello Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology	Email (615) 322-4911 1144 Blair
	Helena Simonett Assistant Professor of Latin-American Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature	Email (615) 322-2527 230 Buttrick Hall