Dr Nicholas Gebhardt
Title:
Senior Researcher
Institution:
Lancaster University
Address:
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Country:
United Kingdom
E-mail:
n.gebhardt@lancaster.ac.uk
External Website Address:
My research interests include popular music in the United States, the entertainment industry, and jazz history and American ideology. My first book, Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001 and I have published articles and reviews in wide variety of forums on the cultural history of popular music in the United States. In addition to my work on Rhythm Changes, I am currently working on a book called Music is our Business: the rise of the popular musician in American culture, 1882-1929 for the University of Chicago Press.
Research Interests:
Popular music in the United States
Entertainment industry
Jazz history
Publications:
Music is our Business: the rise of the popular musician in American culture, 1882-1929 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
"Crossing borders I: the historical context for Ravel's North American tour" in Deborah Mawer, editor, Ravel Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)