2022

• Lecture
  Howland, John; Dubowsky, Jack. (2022) Music for Middlebrows: Jack Dubowsky, 'Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-1978' (Routledge); John Howland, 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music' (University of California Press). Popular Music Books in Process Series, Fall 2021-Winter 2022
• Lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Book launch presentation: John Howland, 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music'. Book launch presentation
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Paul Whiteman and Modern Metropolitan Impressions, 1927–1940. PAUL WHITEMAN IN AMERICAN MUSIC: A Symposium at Williams College Bernhard Music Center August 27, 2022
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Nobrow in the New Millennium?: The Postminimalist Affinities of New York's Indie Rock and Indie Classical Communities in the 2000s. Classical Music in Contemporary Media and Society
• Lecture
  Howland, John Louis; Hammill, Faye; Guthrie, Kate. (2022) Conversations on Art and Life: Music and the Middlebrow. Book launch discussion

2021

• Interview
  Howland, John. (2021) Campaign for the American Reader, Pg. 99 Blog: John Howland's "Hearing Luxe Pop".
• Lecture
  Howland, John. (2021) Soundmania! Popular Music and Technology in the 1950s and 1960s. Soundmania! Popular Music and Technology in the 1950s and 1960s
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2021) Book Presentation: 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music". Book release presentation
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2021) Music Journalism Insider: John Howland Interview (Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music).

2019

• Lecture
  Howland, John. (2019) Hollywood ‘Songs for Swingin’ Lovers: Frank Sinatra’s Hi-Fi Music for Playboys, Modern Romance and Martinis. public research talk at the archive

2017

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2017) Phil Spector and the ‘Fabulous’ Ronettes: Early 1960s ‘Teenage Symphonies’ and the American Lower Middlebrow. Music and the Middlebrow

2015

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2015) Between Jazz and Soul in the 1960s and 1970s. Colloquia series of the Department of Music
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2015) Isaac Hayes and the Intersections of Jazz and Soul in the Early 1970s. Invited guest lecture

2014

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2014) “Teenage Symphonies: The Production Process of Phil Spector and Jack Nitzsche, and the (Orchestral) Sound of Young America in the Early 1960s”. Art of Record Production Conference: Record Production in the Internet Age

2013

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2013) "Hot Buttered Soul" and Billboard Jazz: The Curious Case of Isaac Hayes and the Intersections of Jazz and Soul, 1969-1973. Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

2011

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2011) Nobrow Pop in the New Millennium?: Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, and Post-2000 Chamber Pop. American Musicological Society, annual meeting
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2011) On Background Bling and the Luxe Pop Legacy: A Long View on Jay- Z, Kanye West, and the Hustler Symphony Orchestra. Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Music and Money

2010

• Interview
  Howland, John. (2010) “Portraits of Harlem” episode for the syndicated National Public Radio program "City Lights," WFIU Public Radio, Indiana.
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2010) “Arcade Fire enflamme Winnepeg”.
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) Jazz and Film: The Syncopated City and Craftsmanship. Faculty Research Speakers' Series of the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University
• Lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) Keynote lecture: Jazz Artists in the Concert Hall. Oakland East Bay Symphony Forum
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) On Background Bling and the Luxe Pop Legacy: A Long View on Jay-Z, Kanye West, and the Hustler Symphony Orchestra. University of Virginia, McIntire Dept. of Music’s Colloquium series

2009

• Interview
  Howland, John. (2009) Interviewed for the “Eric in the Evening” show, hosted by Eric Jackson, on WGBH, Boston.
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop in the (Symphonic) Jazz Age. School of Music Musicology Colloquium, University of Maryland College Park
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2009) Interviewed for “Book Report,” hosted by Randy O’Brien, on WMOT.
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop: The Six Degrees of Separation from Jay-Z to Symphonic Jazz. American Musicological Society annual meeting
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Keynote: The Symphonic Ellington and "A Tone Parallel to Harlem.". Echoes of Ellington: A Conference on the Music and Life of Duke Ellington
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop: The Six Degrees of Separation from Jay-Z to Symphonic Jazz. Middlebrow Cultures
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Jay-Z, the Hustler Symphony Orchestra, and the Legacy of Luxe Pop. Invited lecture

2008

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) With Strings: Orchestral Pop and Glorified Entertainment. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) With Strings: Orchestral Pop and Glorified Entertainment. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) Populuxe: The Birth of Glorified Pop in the (Symphonic) Jazz Age. Invited lecture at the Institute for Studies in American Music

2007

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) The Sound and Image of “Traditional Pop.”. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) Symphonic Swing. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) “‘Negro Nuances’: Harlem Entertainment and ‘Glorified’ Popular Music in the 1920s". Society for American Music annual conference
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) 'The Melting Pot of Music’: Glorified ‘Jazz’ in American Entertainments of the Interwar Era. “De-Canonizing Music History,” International Symposium for Histories of Popular Music, Jazz, and Folk Music

2006

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2006) Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook. Musicology Department Colloquium Series, Indiana University

2005

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) Duke Ellington and the Idea of Symphonic Jazz. Invited lecture
• Contribution to radio or TV
  Howland, John. (2005) "The Funniest Man: The Wit and Music of Bert Williams," radio documentary, directed by Elizabeth McNamee and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society for American Music.
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Hollywood ‘Songs for Swingin’ Lovers’”. Society for American Music annual conference
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era”. Leeds International Jazz Conference
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era”. Greater New York Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “‘Jazz’ with Strings”. American Musicological Society annual meeting

2004

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) Jazz Rhapsodies in Black and White: The Cultural Nexus of James P. Johnson’s “Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody.”. Jazz Research Round Table, Institute of Jazz Studies
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) “The Capitol Jazz Aesthetic”. American Studies Association annual meeting: Crossroads of Cultures
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) Orchestral Jazz Arranging and American Popular Music in the 1950s. 14th Nordic Musicological Congress
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) “‘Gershwinesque’ Paraphrases in Classical Hollywood Film”. Reviewing the Canon: Borrowed Music in Film

2003

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2003) “The Whitemanesque Roots of Ellingtonian Extended Jazz Composition”. International Association for Jazz Education annual meeting

2002

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2002) The Roots of Ellingtonian Jazz Composition and Extended Form. Invited lecture
• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2002) The Roots of Ellingtonian Jazz Composition and Extended Form. Invited lecture

2001

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2001) The Melting Pot of Music: “Glorifying” the American Popular Song, and the Aesthetics of Whitemanesque Symphonic Jazz in 1920s Entertainment. Invited lecture

2000

• Conference lecture
  Howland, John. (2000) “Between the Muses and the Masses: Jazz Rhapsodies and the Emergence of Middlebrow Culture”. American Musicological Society annual meeting