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Dr Nicholas Gebhardt

Lecturer in Popular Music

Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Associated research centres and groups: Music

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

CULT101 Media, Film and Cultural Studies

AMST361 American Popular Music

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)

Potential Doctoral Proposals

American popular music

Cultural theory of popular music

Jazz studies

Career details

I have taught American Studies and Popular Music Studies at Lancaster University since 2002. Before that I was the Music Director of Radio 2SER-FM in Sydney, Australia.

Associated Keywords: American studies, Cultural Studies, Culture, Media, Music, Music business, Musicology, Music theory, Popular culture

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