As the original journal for the Sonneck Society, American Music helped solidify that organization's presence and shape its scholarly profile: on a more personal scale, it also launched a professional career when it published my first article in fall 1996. In “A Sense of Place: Charles Ives and ‘Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut,’” I proposed that place provided one perspective from which to understand music, music culture, and personal and national history and identity, and this was especially so in the case of Ives.1 Although place was recognized by numerous disciplines as an essential locus of knowledge and traditional ways of knowing, it was not widely employed as a starting point for “high-art” musicological scholarship. This was made clear when Wiley Hitchcock, who chaired the panel at a Sonneck Conference where I was presenting a paper, introduced me as “the place musicologist”: it seemed my focus on place deserved a...
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December 01 2022
Launchpads, Observation Decks, and Springboards
Denise Von Glahn
Denise Von Glahn
Denise Von Glahn is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at Florida State University. Her scholarly interests include all aspects of music culture in the United States but focus especially on music and place, ecomusicology, gender and identity studies, biography, institutions, and the music of Charles Ives. Her most recent book, Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Shaped American Music Culture will be published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023.
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American Music (2022) 40 (4): 571–575.
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Denise Von Glahn; Launchpads, Observation Decks, and Springboards. American Music 1 December 2022; 40 (4): 571–575. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19452349.40.4.25
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