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Faculty Deane L. Root

(Musicology)

Historical Musicology
Professor of Music, Professor of History
Director, Center for American Music
Fletcher Hodges, Jr. Curator, Center for American Music
PhD, University of Illinois, 1977

111 Music Building
412-624-4126
E-Mail: dlr@pitt.edu

Fields

American Music, Music in Culture, Popular Music, American Musical Theater, Bibliography

Teaching

Music in Society, American Music, Popular Music, History.

Honors and Awards

Society for American Music, Distinguished Service Citation, 2000

Music Library Association, Book of the Year ( Resources of American Music History).

Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for the American Library Association ( The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition, with Stephen Saunders).

Selected Publications

Voices Across Time: American History Through Music. (University of Pittsburgh, 2004)

Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater. 16 volumes. Series editor. (Garland Publishing, 1994).

The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition, with Stephen Saunders. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990).

American Popular Stage Music 1860-1880 (UMI Research Press, 1981). First musicological study of 19 th -century music theater.

Resources of American Music History, with Donald Krummel (University of Illinois Press, 1981)

Papers Read

Deane Root has presented papers for the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, American Studies Association, American Antiquarian Society, Music Library Association, Organization of American Historians, and many cultural and educational institutions.

Consulting Activities

Consultant on numerous documentary films on Stephen Foster and other American topics.

Television

Appeared on PBS documentaries on Stephen Foster and Antonin Dvorak

Activities

Director, Center for American Music.

Fletcher Hodges Jr. Curator of the Foster Hall Collection, Center for American Music

Project Director for Voices Across Time, an educational resource allowing secondary-school teachers of social studies and language arts to use music effectively in their classrooms.

Past President, Sonneck Society for American Music.

Past Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies

Past President, Gateway to the Arts in Pittsburgh; Greater Pittsburgh Museum Council ; Friends of the [Carnegie Public] Music Library

Frequent panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities research grant competition.

Alternate member, National Recording Preservation Board.

Co-director, NEH Summer Teaching Institute: Voices Across Time: Teaching Americvan History Through Music, 2004

Presentations of Voices Across Time to educational organizations across the country.

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Staff

Dorothy Shallenberger
Administrator
shallen@pitt.edu
412-624-4127

Rose Booth
Receptionist
rbooth@pitt.edu
412-624-4126

Joan McDonald
Secretary
jdm30@pitt.edu
412-624-4124

Assistant to Jazz Director
412-624-4187

Phil Thompson
Communications Coordinator
concerts@pitt.edu
412 624-4125

Jason Squinobal
William R. Robinson Studio Manager
jjs75@pitt.edu
412-624-9193

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