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James A. Davis
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Music History and Theory, 1993
Boston University
M.M. Composition, 1987
University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Music, 1984
University of Colorado at Denver
Teaching Positions
The State University of New York at Fredonia
SUNY Distinguished Professor, (2021-Present)
Professor, Chair of Music History Area (2008-present)
Associate Professor and Chair of Music History Area (1997 to 2008)
Assistant Professor (1991-1997)
University of Pittsburgh
Lecturer, Voices Across Time: NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, 2013, 2015.
Jamestown Community College (Jamestown, NY)
Instructor (1992-1993)
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Visiting Lecturer (Summers 1989-1991)
Boston University
Instructor, Teaching Fellow, Graduate Assistant (1987-91)
Books
"Maryland, My Maryland": Civil War Music and Patriotism (University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War (Routledge, 2016).
Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters in Virginia, 1863-1864 (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
The Music History Classroom (Ashgate, 2012).
‘Bully for the Band!’ The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band (McFarland Publishing, 2012).
Articles
“Afterword,” American Nineteenth Century History 24.3 (2023): 363–69
“The Brass Mounted Army: Civil War Bandsmen and Humor,” Journal of Band Research 56.2 (Spring 2021): 27-44.
“Locating Patriotism in Civil War Songs,” Civil War History 66.4 (December 2020): 380-415.
“Teaching Musicology in the Margins,” with Jessica Lotyczewski and Henryk Lotyczewski, Musica Docta 9 (2019): 47-56.
https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/10179
“Music, Homesickness, and American Civil War Soldiers,” Lied und populäre Kultur: Jahrbuch für Lied und populäre Kultur und Musik63 (2018): 35-52.
“’Our War-Songs’ (1864): Popular Song and Music Criticism during the American Civil War,” Popular Music & Society 40.5 (December 2018): 489-505.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2017.1359468
“Music History Pedagogy on the Ground Floor,” Musica Docta 6 (2016): 19-26.
https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/6562
“Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the Civil War,” College Music Symposium 54 (Summer 2014)
“Camp Life – Music,” Civil War Quarterly 1.4 (Summer 2014): 8-11.
“Variety Shows, Minstrelsy, and Social Aesthetics during the Virginia Encampment of 1863-1864,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 122.2 (2014): 128-55.
“Discussion and the Music Major Community,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy, 1.1 (2010): 5-17.
http://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/8
“Music and Gallantry in Combat During the American Civil War," American Music, 28.2 (Summer 2010): 141-72.
"Musical Reconnaissance and Deception in the American Civil War," Journal of Military History, 74.1 (January 2010): 79-105.
“A War of Manners: Jeb Stuart’s ‘Sabers and Roses’ Ball,” Catoctin History, 10 (Spring/Summer 2008): 22-30.
“’All Sounds of Life and Rage:’ Musical Imagery in the Writings of Civil War Soldiers,” Nineteenth Century Studies, 21 (2007): 183-97.
“Dialogue, Monologue, and Soliloquy in the Large Lecture Class,” International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 19.2 (2007): 178-82.
http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE195.pdf
“Bands in Combat During the American Civil War: The Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, 5 May 1862,” Band International, 28.2 (August 2006): 59-62.
“Harmonious Discord: Contrary Views of Band and Field Music During the Civil War,” North & South, 8.7 (January, 2006): 78-87.
“More Work than Play: Insights from the Letters of J. Herbert George, Civil War Musician,” Journal of American Culture, 26.4 (December 2003): 464-73.
"Regimental Bands and Morale in the American Civil War," Journal of Band Research, 38.2 (Spring, 2003): 1-21.
“Aesthetic Questions and Questions of Aesthetics in the Music History Classroom,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 35.3 (Fall, 2001): 87-94.
“The ‘Is-Ought’ Fallacy and Musicology: The Assumptions of Pedagogy,” Philosophy of Music Education Review, 5.1 (Spring 1997): 1-8.
"Philosophical Positivism and Its Relationship to American Atonal Music Theory," Journal of the History of Ideas, 56.2 (July, 1995): 501-22.
"Positivism, Logic and Atonal Analysis," Music Review, 53.3 (August, 1992): 210-20.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
“Stephen Foster and Patriotism,” in Foster at 200, ed. Jason Guthrie (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
“Soldiers or Artists? Civil War Musicians and the Band in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Bands in American Musical History: Inflection Points and Reappraisals, George Foreman and Bryan Proksch, eds. Eastman Studies in Music (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2024), 260-78.
“’Old 100th’, Militarization, and Nostalgia During the American Civil War,” in Sacred Contexts in Secular Music of the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Rathey and E. Papanikolaou (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022), 291-313.
“Music, Society, and the American Civil War,” in The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, edited by James A. Davis (New York: Routledge, 2016), 1-10.
“’My thoughts are not here:’ The Civil War Dance Floor as Multitemporal Place,” in The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, edited by James A. Davis (New York: Routledge, 2016), 11-27.
“Hearing History: ‘Dixie,’ ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,’ and Civil War Music in the History Classroom,” in Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines, ed. S. Pelkey and J. Jackson (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), 200-19.
Invited Presentations
“Reconstructing the War Song: Stephen Foster and the Evolution of Musical Patriotism,” Baird Lecture Series, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 7 March 2024.
“Not-So-Popular Music of the American Civil War,” Culpeper Museum of History, Culpeper, Virginia, 30 March 2022.
“Music, Music History or Musicology? A Changing Paradigm for 21st Century Teachers,” Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Música e Educação Musical, Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal, 20 January 2022.
"Civil War Music and Identity,” Windham Civil War Music Heritage Gathering and Encampment, Windham, NY, 3 August 2019.
“Musicology in the Margins: Linking the Music History Seminar to Public School Teachers,” Music as Cultural Education: Building New Bridges between Pre-College Schools and Universities, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna, 22-23 June 2018.
“Civil War Music and Community,” Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 9 August 2015.
“Civil War Music and Soldier Identity,” Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site, Huntington Station, NY, 19 July 2015.
“Pedagogy on the Ground Floor: Music History in the Public Schools” Pedagogy Study Group, Meeting of the International Musicological Society, New York, NY, 21 June 2015.
“The Musical World of the Winter Encampment,” Symposium on the Winter Encampment of 1863-1864, Friends of Cedar Mountain Battlefield, Culpeper, VA, 22 March 2014.
“From the Battlefield to the Ballroom: Civil War Music and Social Identity,” Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg, VA, 18 November 2013.
“Master Teacher Roundtable – New Philosophies,“ National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 8 November 2013.
“‘Maryland, My Maryland’: Nationalism, Patriotism, and the Song of a Divided Nation,” Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 13 February 2013. (http://youtu.be/l_6wdnK7b7E)
“The George Brothers and the Band of the 10th Vermont Infantry during the American Civil War,” Vermont History Expo, Tunbridge, VT, 16 June 2012.
“Military Bands and the Intersection of Communities During the American Civil War,” Arts Canisius, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, 20 September 2011.
“Musical Reconnaissance and Deception,” Deception and Spycraft: Military Intelligence in the Civil War, International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C., 21 June 2011.
“Ritual Music and Identity for Civil War Soldiers,” Musica Mundana Society, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, 4 March 2011.
"Civil War Music and Community Identity," Musicology Colloquium, University at Buffalo, 15 November 2010.
“Music and Civil War Communities,” Friends of Reed Library Annual Dinner, Fredonia, NY, 13 October 2010.
“Civil War Music in Camp and Combat,” Department of Music, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, 11 March 2010.
“Researching Civil War Music,” New York State/Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association, Fredonia, NY, 19 October 2007.
“Musicians in the American Civil War: The Letters of James Herbert George,” Early Frontier New York Chapter, National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Fredonia, NY, 28 July 2007.
“The Banjo in 19th-Century America,” District Meeting of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cassadaga, NY, 12 May 2007.
“Boys, Girls, and Banjos in 19th-Century America,” Arts and Humanities Symposium, SUNY at Fredonia, 11 December 2006.
“’What a shame to spoil with bullets such a scene of martial beauty!’: Bands in Combat During the American Civil War,” New Work from the Faculty, College of Arts and Humanities, SUNY at Fredonia, 7 October 2005.
“Branding the Ear: Labels and Taste Formation in Popular Music,” Arts and Humanities Symposium, SUNY at Fredonia, 8 November 2004.
“Notation and the Rise of Music as ‘Art’,” United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 10 November 1997.
“Getting Pop Music into the Public School Classroom,” Fredonia Chapter of the Music Educators National Conference, 11 March 1997.
“The Women of Mozart's Operas,” Western New York Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, 21 October 1995, Buffalo, NY.
“Opera and Politics,” Convocation Panel, SUNY at Fredonia, October, 1993.
"The Enlightenment as Reflected in Mozart's Operas,” Mozart Bicentennial, Buffalo State College, 12 November 1991.
"Music in Shakespeare's England,” Conversations Across the Faculty, SUNY at Fredonia, 25 October 1991.
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