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Visual and Performing Arts
240 Bradley Hall
(973) 353-5119, ex. 31
jhowland@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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John Howland specializes in the study of various arranging traditions across big band jazz and jazz-related orchestral idioms in dance bands, musical theater, and the media of film and radio. His research is fundamentally concerned with the interconnections between the jazz tradition, popular culture, and American discourses on race and class. Additional research interests include music in American postwar/cold-war culture of the 1950s and 1960s, the roles of music in American media across the twentieth century, and the growth and workings of the American popular music industry. His teaching ranges across subjects as diverse as Hollywood film music, American popular music from 1950 to present, opera, the classical tradition, and musical traditions in early American mass media. His forthcoming book, Harlem Rhapsodies: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Idea of Concert Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2008), traces
African-American contributions to the symphonic jazz vogue of the 1920s through 1940s. He is also working on a second book project, Glorified “Jazz,” which examines a broad family of orchestral popular music idioms across American entertainment and media of the 1920s to 1950s. His work has appeared in American Music and the IAJE Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook, and he has forthcoming articles in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.
He is also contributing a chapter to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Ellington (Cambridge, 2007).
He is a co-founder and co-editor of Jazz Perspectives, an interdisciplinary jazz studies journal published by Routledge Press. He has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of California at Davis (2002), and was a recipient of a Margaret H. Whiting Dissertation Fellowship Award (1999).
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