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Contemporary Arts and Performance

Dr Nicholas Gebhardt

Lecturer

The LICA Building
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YW


Tel: +44 1524 593500

PhD Supervision Interests

American popular music

Cultural theory of popular music

Jazz studies

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

LICA160 Music Practice abnd Theory

LICA368 Rock and Roll in American Culture

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.

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)

2010

On Jazz, memory and history: A response to Alyn Shipton

Gebhardt, N. 2010 In: Jazz Research Journal. 4, 1, p. 7-14. 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Crossing Borders I: the historical context for Ravel’s North American tour

Gebhardt, N. 11/2010 In: Ravel Studies. Mawer, D. (ed.). Cambridge: University of Cambridge, p. 92-113. 22 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

2001

Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology

Gebhardt, N. 2001 Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. 216 p.

Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook