James A. Davis - Musicologist &

Civil War Historian

School of Music

Jim Davis is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Music History Area at the School of Music, State University of New York at Fredonia. His primary research focuses on the music and musicians of the American Civil War. He has also worked in the areas of music history pedagogy, American popular music of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, and the history of bands.

Davis received a BS in Music from the University of Colorado at Denver with an emphasis in scoring and arranging; an MM in composition from the University of Texas; and a PhD in music history and theory from Boston University.

His latest book is "Maryland, My Maryland": Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). He is also the author of Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music and Community During Winter Quarters, Virginia (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) and Bully for the Band! The Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10^th Vermont Infantry Band (MacFarland, 2012). He edited the collections The Art and Culture of the American Civil War (Routledge, 2016) and The Music History Classroom (Ashgate, 2012). He is the founding Editor for The Teaching of Music History Series with Routledge.

Davis has presented papers at regional and national meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, College Music Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Military History, Music Library Association, and American Culture Association. His research has been published in Civil War History, American Music, College Music Symposium, Journal of Military History, Nineteenth Century Studies, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Band Research, and the Journal of American Culture. His articles on pedagogy have appeared in Musica Docta, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Philosophy of Music Education Review.