Carol Oja - colloquium
December 2, 2011 - 3:30pm
- Friday, December 2, 2011
- 107 Old Cabell Hall
- 3:30 p.m.
- Free
Carol Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Oja's research focuses on 20th-century American musical traditions. Her colloquium is titled "Performing Racial De-Segregation: Broadway Musicals in the 1940's."
Her book, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other books include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005); Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds; A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock; and American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers. She is at work on a book provisionally titled Leonard Bernstein and Broadway, and she is past-president of the Society for American Music.
Her book, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other books include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005); Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds; A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock; and American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers. She is at work on a book provisionally titled Leonard Bernstein and Broadway, and she is past-president of the Society for American Music.