Dr Nicholas Gebhardt

Lecturer in Popular Music

Associated research centres and groups:Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Music
Tel:+44 (0) 1524 593500
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Room:County South, B34

Details

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

CULT101 Media, Film and Cultural Studies

AMST361 American Popular Music

Potential Doctoral Proposals

American popular music

Cultural theory of popular music

Jazz studies

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)

Additional Information

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.

  • Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)
  • The LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK