John Howland
Background and activities
Courses
- MUSV1103 - Popular Music
- MUSV3006 - Master's Thesis in Musicology
- MUSV1102 - Film Music
- MUSV3115 - Music and Culture in 1970s New York
- MUSV3600 - Self Study - Compensatory Course for Experts in Teamwork
- MUSV3110 - Soul of a Nation: Black American Popular Music, from R&B to Hip Hop
- MUSV3105 - Popular Music Studies
- MUSV3004 - Music Studies: Disciplines, Approaches, and Perspectives
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) The Classy Populuxe Songbook. Journal of the American Musicological Society. vol. 73 (2).
- (2009) Ellingtonian Extended Composition and the Symphonic Jazz Model. Annual Review of Jazz Studies. vol. 14.
- (2007) "The Blues Get Glorified": Harlem Entertainment, "Negro Nuances," and Black Symphonic Jazz. The Musical Quarterly. vol. 90.
- (2006) Jazz Rhapsodies in Black and White: James P. Johnson’s "Yamekraw". American Music. vol. 24.
Books
- (2021) Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music. University of California Press. 2021. ISBN 9780520300118.
- (2017) Duke Ellington Studies. Cambridge University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780521764049.
- (2009) Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz. University of Michigan Press. 2009. ISBN 0-472- 03316-6.
- (2003) The Whitemanesque Roots of Early Ellingtonian Extended Jazz Composition. 2003. ISBN 0000000000000. Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook (2003).
Part of book/report
- (2018) Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul. The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music.
- (2018) On Billboard, Isaac Hayes, and the ‘Swinging Relationship’ Between Jazz and Its Popular Music Cousins, 1950-1973. The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies.
- (2017) Marketing to the Middlebrow: Reconsidering Ellingtonia, the Legacy of Early Ellington Criticism, and the Idea of a ‘Serious’ Jazz Composer. Duke Ellington Studies.
- (2017) Preface. Duke Ellington Studies.
- (2016) Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington. Oxford Bibliographies in Music.
- (2014) Artful Entertainment: Ellington's Formative Years in Context. The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington.
- (2012) Cool Jazz. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 8, Genres: North America.
- (2012) “‘Jazz’ with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook.”. Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries.
- (2012) Third Stream. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 8, Genres: North America.
- (2012) West Coast Jazz. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 8, Genres: North America.
Report/dissertation
- (2002) Between the Muses and the Masses: Symphonic Jazz, “Glorified” Entertainment, and the Rise of the American Musical Middlebrow, 1920-1944. Stanford University Press. 2002.
- (1994) Hugo Wolf’s Wilhelm Meister Lieder as Fin-de-siècle Music Drama. 1994.