Dana Gooley
Assistant Professor of Music:
Music
Phone: +1 401 863 3711
gooley@brown.edu
Dana Gooley's research focuses on 19th century European musical culture. His publications have focused on the cult of the virtuoso, music criticism, and the role of charisma in the public sphere of 19th century Europe. He is currently researching a book on the pianist-composers of the 19th century and their improvisational practices. He also writes about jazz history, and is presently engaged in a study of jazz-pop crossovers in the 1950s.
Biography
Dana Gooley studied piano at New England Conservatory and English at Wesleyan University before pursuing his Ph.D. in musicology at Princeton University in 1999. His research has centered on Franz Liszt, music criticism, and the 19th century cult of the virtuoso. Other interests include opera, jazz, and improvisation.
Teaching
I generally teach courses in the history of European classical music of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, as well as courses in the history of jazz. I currently offer courses surveying the history of opera and of classical music in the 19th-20th centuries. I have given interdisciplinary seminars on improvisation and on the fantastic in art, literature and music. My jazz courses include a context-rich survey of jazz history as well as seminars on Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. I have also taught courses on film music, virtuosity, and music theory.
Funded Research
Dana Gooley received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to spend a year in Berlin researching his dissertation research, and an award from the American Musicological Society (AMS 50) to complete it. After completion he received a short-term research grant from the DAAD, and has recently received research travel grants from the W. P. Jones fund and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.
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