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Blake Howe

Paula G. Manship Associate Professor of Music Louisiana State University

College of Music and Dramatic Arts e-mail: [email protected] Louisiana State University 102 School of Music Road website: Baton Rouge, LA 70803 http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/bhowe

EDUCATION

M.A./Ph.D. in Musicology, The Graduate Center (City University of New York), 2010 • Dissertation: “Music and the Embodiment of Disability” (Joseph N. Straus, advisor).

B.A. cum laude, Vassar College, 2005 • Double-major in Music and German. Minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. • Graduation with General Honors, Music Department Honors, and German Department Honors.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Louisiana State University Paula G. Manship Associate Professor (2019–present) Associate Professor (2017–19) Assistant Professor (2012–17) Visiting Assistant Professor (2011–12) Instructor of Music History (2010–11) City College of New York Adjunct Lecturer and Graduate Student Fellow (2007–09)

PUBLICATIONS

Textbooks The Musician in Society, co-author with Brett Boutwell (in progress and under contract with W. W. Norton).

Edited Volumes The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, co-editor with Stephanie Jensen- Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Refereed Journal Articles “Music and Disability Studies,” Music Research Annual, vol. 1 (2020).

“Against Abridgment,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 9, no. 1 (2019): 70–78.

“Colloquy: On the Disability Aesthetics of Music,” co-convener and co-author of the introduction with Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Journal of the American Musicological Society 69 (2016): 525–63.

“Music and the Agents of Obsession,” Music Theory Spectrum 38 (2016): 218–40.

“Paul Wittgenstein and the Performance of Disability,” The Journal of Musicology 27, no. 2 (2010): 135–80.

“The Allure of Dissolution: Bodies, Forces, and Cyclicity in Schubert’s Final Mayrhofer Settings,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 62, no. 2 (2009): 271–322.

“Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop: A Musical–Iconographical Riddle,” The Musical Quarterly 90, no. 1 (2006): 6–42.

Chapters in Edited Volumes “Nature and Science in Winterreise,” in The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s “Winterreise,” ed. Lisa Feurzeig and Marjorie Hirsch, 114–28 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

“Musical Remediation of Disability,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, ed. Youn Kim and Sander L. Gilman, 258–75 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

“Bounded Finitude and Boundless Infinitude: Schubert’s Contradictions at the ‘Final Barrier,’” in Schubert’s Late Music in History and Theory, ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton, 357–82 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

“Disabling Music Performance,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus, 191–209 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

“Saul, David, and the Ideal Body of Music,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus, 539–62 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

“Introduction: Disability Studies in Music, Music in Disability Studies,” co-author with Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus, in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus, 1–14 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Reference Materials “Disability and Music,” co-author with Neil Lerner, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music, ed. Kate van Orden (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited by Charles Garrett (2012): “Rudolph Aronson” “Thomas Philander Ryder” “Benjamin Colman Blodgett” “Louis Arthur Russell” “John Henry Cornell” “Antoinette Sterling” (revision) “William Harold Neidlinger” “Charles Wels” “George Peabody” (revision)

Blogs “Temperamental Differences,” The Avid Listener (W. W. Norton), 28 March 2016.

“Music and Disability Studies: An Introduction,” Musicology Now (American Musicological Society), 9 February 2014.

Reviews Review of Death in “Winterreise”: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle by Lauri Suurpää in Nineteenth-Century Music Review 15, no. 1 (2018): 103–08.

“Whose Winterreise?” Review-essay of Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter’s Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession [book]; Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Winterreise [audio recording]; and Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), and David Alden (director), Winterreise [film], in Nineteenth-Century Music Review 13 (2016): 113–22.

“Film Music History Textbooks: An Overview.” Review-essay of recent film music books and textbooks, in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy 6, no. 1 (2016): 63–71.

Review of Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied, edited by Jürgen Thym, in Music & Letters 92 (2011): 656–58.

Review of “In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister”: Technik und Ästhetik der Klaviermusik für die linke Hand by Albert Sassmann, in Notes 68 (2011): 104–07.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

“Musical Instruments, Enabling and Disabling” • Music colloquium, Utrecht University (23 September 2021) [invited speaker] • Music colloquium, University of California, Davis (1 April 2021) [invited speaker] • Guest lecturer, Northwestern University (26 October 2020) [invited speaker]

“Drumbeats: Race, Disability, and the Music of Voodoo Film” • Society for American Music Annual Meeting, New Orleans (22 March 2019)

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“Enabling Disabling Music” • Guest lecturer, University of California, San Diego (5 March 2019) [invited speaker] • Keynote address, ELTE Workshop for Arts Education, Budapest (25–26 May 2018) [invited speaker]

“Against Abridgment” • “Rethinking Primary Sources for the Music History Classroom,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Rochester (12 November 2017)

Respondent, “Cripping the Music Theory/Music History Curriculum” • Special session of the Music and Disability Interest and Study Groups, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver (3 November 2016) [invited speaker]

“Enforcing and Recasting Disability through Music: Two ‘Morals in a Ruin’” • Special session of the Music and Disability Interest and Study Groups, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee (8 November 2014) [invited speaker]

“Who Composed ‘Je ne demande de vous’ (Bologna Q16)?” • Southern chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society, Tampa (8 February 2014)

“Paul Wittgenstein’s Performance Practice: Reflections on His One-Hand Arrangements” (written in collaboration with pianist Jamie Gurt) • Symposium on Music and Disability Studies, CUNY Graduate Center (20 May 2013), with pianist Inessa Bazayev [invited speaker] • American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (2 November 2012), with pianist Jamie Gurt • Music Forum, Louisiana State University (26 October 2012), with pianist Jamie Gurt [departmental lecture]

“Helen van Dongen and the ‘Noise-Music’ of Oil Drilling in Louisiana Story (1948)” • Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Charlotte (16 March 2012) • Music Forum, Louisiana State University (9 March 2012) [departmental lecture]

“Schubert at the ‘Final Barrier’” (“Schubert at the ‘letzte Schranke’”) • Music Finished and Unfinished: A Symposium in Honor of Richard Kramer, CUNY Graduate Center (18 May 2012) [invited speaker] • Thanatos as Muse: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, National University of Ireland Maynooth (21–23 October 2011) • First Biennial Music Colloquium, Louisiana State University (21 May 2011)

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“Music and the Agents of Obsession” • Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (28 October 2011) • Music Forum, Louisiana State University (29 January 2010) [departmental lecture] • Symposium on Music and Disability Studies, CUNY Graduate Center (16 January 2010)

“How to ‘Fix’ One-Hand Piano Music: Cautionary Tales from the Life of Paul Wittgenstein” • Music Forum, Louisiana State University (1 October 2010) [departmental lecture]

“‘On mine herte is mad a wounde’: Britten and the Signs of Death” • Lyrica Society for Word–Music Relations, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (27 December 2009)

“Schubert, Seidl, and the Threat of Finitude” [early version of “Schubert at the ‘Final Barrier,’” above] • American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (12 November 2009)

“Single-Handedly: Paul Wittgenstein and the Disability of Inability” • Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Tucson (17 June 2009)

“On Annihilation and Transcendence: Schubert’s Final Mayrhofer Settings” • Society for Music Analysis Conference, Cardiff, Wales (5 September 2008)

“Lecherous Men, a Mute Soprano, and Porpora in Gaspare Traversi’s Music Lesson” • Feminist Theory & Music 10, UNC Greensboro (30 May 2009) • Greater New York Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society (26 April 2008) Award: Best Graduate Student Paper (AMS-GNY, 2008) • Graduate Students in Music Conference, Columbia University (8 March 2008)

“Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop: A Musical–Iconographical Riddle” • American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Québec City (3 November 2007) • GAMMA-UT Conference, University of Texas, Austin (24 March 2007) • GAMuT Conference, University of North Texas (23 February 2007)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Louisiana State University (since 2010)

Undergraduate Courses The Musician in Society (MUSIC 1705) Introduction to Music History I–II (MUSIC 1740 and 1741) Survey of Western Music History I–II (MUSIC 2053 and 2054)

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Collegium Musicum, co-director (MUSIC 4225) Introduction to Film Music (MUSIC 4749) Women and Music (MUS 4749) Introduction to Film Music (HONORS 2021) Musicking: Global Perspectives (HONORS 2021)

Graduate History Surveys Overview of Western Music History (MUSIC 3710) Music of the Classical Era (MUSIC 7754) Music of the Romantic Era (MUSIC 7755) The German Lied: Music and Poetry (MUSIC 7998)

Graduate Seminars on Special Topics (Newly Developed) Franz Schubert: Inside, Out (MUSIC 7903) History of Film Music (MUSIC 7903) Performance Practices (MUSIC 7903) Music and Disability Studies (MUSIC 7904) Classical Music through Sketches and Fragments (MUSIC 7904)

Independent Studies Bach and Buxtehude (Senior Project for BA in Academic Studies) Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies History of Film Music Film Music and Embodiment Theory Music of Terezín Lok Hung’s Hang Li Po

City College of New York (2007–09)

Music Theory Courses Musicianship I (MUSIC 13200) Theory I (MUSIC 16200)

Music History Courses Music Appreciation (MUSIC 10100) The Arts: Music (HUMANITIES 10201) Writing about Music (MUSIC 21000)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Awards Tiger Athletic Foundation President’s Award (2019) Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, Louisiana State University (2016) Rising Faculty Research Award, Louisiana State University (2014) Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award (2014) Best Student Paper, Greater New York State Chapter of the AMS (2008)

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Fellowships and Other Funding Council on Research Summer Stipend Program, Louisiana State University (2013) Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (2009–10) Franziska Dorner Fund for Music Research, CUNY Graduate Center (2009) Robert E. Gilleece Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (2005–10)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Organized Conferences Co-chair, Second Biennial Music Colloquium, Louisiana State University (11 May 2013).

Co-chair, Symposium on Music and Disability, CUNY Graduate Center (15–17 January 2010).

Chair, 12th Annual Graduate Students in Music Symposium: “Representing Music—or— Music Representing,” CUNY Graduate Center (25 April 2009).

Editorial Positions Editor of Recording Reviews, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge University Press) (2012–19).

Assistant Editor, RILM [Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale] (2007–10).

Professional Leadership Secretary–Treasurer, Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society (2021– 23).

Abstracts Editor, Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society (2017–19).

Co-chair, Study Group on Music and Disability Studies, American Musicological Society (2012–14). • Helped organize three panels (2013, 2014, 2015) at the Annual Meetings of the American Musicological Society, served as editor of the online Musical Representations of Disability Database, and contributed to the Study Group’s website.

Committees AMS Council Representative, Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society (2019–present).

Chair (2016) and Member (2014–15), program committee for the Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society.

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Member, moderating team for AMS-L, the listserv of the American Musicological Society (2015–18).

Member, Committee on Communications of the American Musicological Society (2015– 16).

Peer Reviewer Music Theory Online (2021) Bloomsbury Academic (2020) Bloomsbury Academic (2019) Music Theory Online (2019) Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (2019) Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (2019) Boydell & Brewer (2018) Oxford University Press (2017) Cambridge University Press (2017) Disability Studies Quarterly (2017) Journal of the American Musicological Society (2016) Bloomsbury Academic (2014) American Music (2011) Journal of the American Musicological Society (2009)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Thesis/Dissertation Advising Matt Wood, doctor student in musicology at LSU (in progress)

Rachel Cisneros, masters student in musicology at LSU (in progress)

Julia Boudreaux, undergraduate music major concentrating in Academic Studies at LSU • “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in the Hands of Buxtehude and Bach” (2020)

Andrew Owen, doctoral student in musicology at LSU • “The Handmaiden of Gnosis: Music in Esoteric Societies” (2018)

Leanny Muñoz, masters student in musicology at LSU • “Homenajes: Finding Spanish Identity in Falla’s Orchestral Suite” (2018)

John Dunn, doctoral student in musicology at LSU • “The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films (2016)

Thesis/Dissertation Committee Member Paul Henderson, doctoral student in choral conducting at LSU (in progress) Jamey Wright, doctoral student in vocal performance at LSU (in progress) Madelynn Hart, masters student in musicology at Utrecht University (2021) Filip Starostka, doctoral student in trumpet at LSU (2021)

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Yiqing Ma, masters student in music theory at LSU (2020) Aleksandra Drozzina, doctoral student in music theory at LSU (2020) Hannah Keller, undergraduate in music at LSU (2019) Katlin Harris, masters student in musicology at LSU (2019) Lorenzo Gapud, undergraduate in music education (2019) Jacob Gran, doctoral student in music theory at LSU (2019) Michael Palmese, doctoral student in musicology at LSU (2019) Unusdian Errandonea, doctoral student in cello performance at LSU (2019) Brooks Marion, masters student in musicology at LSU (2018) Vivian Buchanan, masters student in musicology at LSU (2018) James Mickler, undergraduate in biological sciences at LSU (2018) Warren Kimball, doctoral student in musicology at LSU (2017) Savanna Rigling, masters student in music theory at LSU (2017) Yuxi Zhao, masters student in musicology at LSU (2016) Karl Simmerman, masters student in musicology at LSU (2016) Ashley Kelly, DMA student in saxophone at LSU (2015) Timothy Love, doctoral student in musicology at LSU (2015) Michael Durham, doctoral student in music theory at LSU (2014) Jennifer Mitchell, masters student in composition at LSU (2014) Vaughn Cardona, DMA student in orchestral conducting at LSU (2013) Jonathan Mitchell, doctoral student in music theory at LSU (2012) Andrew Owen, masters students in musicology at LSU (2011)

Service on Other Committees Curriculum Committee (chair) (LSU, 2021–22) Non-tenure Review Committee (chair) (LSU, 2021) Faculty Awards Selection Committee (LSU, 2020) Program Review Committee (LSU, 2019–20) Music Therapy Committee (LSU, 2019–20) BA Committee (chair) (LSU, 2018–19) Graduate Committee (LSU, 2018) Promotion and Tenure Committee (LSU, 2017) Strategic Plan Subcommittee: General Education (LSU, 2017) Undergraduate Committee (LSU, 2015–17) Curriculum Steering Committee (LSU, 2015)

PERFORMANCE

Preconcert Lectures Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Brooklyn Art Song Society (10 October 2020) “Gibson, Rota, and Strauss,” LSU Symphony Orchestra (10 October 2017) “Women in Music: Cécile Chaminade,” LSU Symphony Orchestra (20 September 2017) “Creating Louisiana Story,” Pointe Coupée Historical Society (24 February 2012)

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Organized Concerts Co-director, Collegium Musicum at Louisiana State University (2015–18). An early music vocal and instrumental ensemble specializing in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century music. • “Music of the German Baroque” (Recital Hall, LSU, 9 October 2018) • “‘Thro’ Moss and Moor’: Music of Eighteenth-Century Scotland” (Ogden Honors College, LSU, 17 November 2017) • “A Performance of Music Held at Hill Memorial Library” (Hill Memorial Library, LSU, 4 April 2017) • “English Social Music of the Seventeenth Century” (Ogden Honors College, LSU, 1 November 2016) • “Music of the English and German Baroque” (Recital Hall, LSU, 18 April 2016) • “Music of the French and English Baroque” (Recital Hall, LSU, 16 November 2015)

“Music for Silents: Early Film Scores and Improvisations” (Louisiana State University, 8 November 2011). Organized in conjunction with the Introduction to Film Music seminar (MUSIC 4749).