RESEARCH INTERESTS​

Historical musicology, pianists of the recording era (20th-21st centuries), Western art music since 1900, African American music, vernacular/popular music, music performance studies, performance analysis, performers’ lived & embodied experiences, cultural studies, sound studies, gender/sexuality studies, masculinity, pianism, virtuosity, piano technique, biomechanics, pedagogy, concert culture, music sociology, topic studies, AI-assisted performing analysis, aesthetics, prestige, the “middlebrow”, civil rights, social justice, music & exile, theory & practice links, music & religion, theories of listening, entertainment & “serious” music, racial politics, voice studies, global music, ethnography

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MONOGRAPH

I Am Not an Entertainer: Don Shirley, Green Book Pianism, and the Middlebrow Problem

Solicited by Ken Wissoker, Senior Editor of Duke University Press. (In Progress)

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Ph.D. DISSSERTATION

 “Visions of the Pianistic Self: Don Shirley, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Music Performance Studies” (UCLA Musicology, 2022)

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RESEARCH PAPERS & ESSAYS

 “Readings of Pianistic Interiority: Rachmaninoff and Eastern Orthodox Metamorphosis.” Interdisciplinary Humanities (HERA) in an Invited Special Issue on “Music as a Psychological Reflection.” Forthcoming. [Peer-Reviewed Article]

 

 “Rachmaninoff Meets Stanislavski: An Allegorical Archive and The Topos of Breath.” In Music Performers’ Lived Experiences, edited by Mine Doğantan-Dack (London: Routledge, 2025) [Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter]

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 “Clean” in Name/Understand/Play: Metaphors in Music and Sound, edited by Nina Sun Eidsheim, Daniel Walden, Dylan Robinson, and Martin Daughtry. (Forthcoming) [Peer-Reviewed Essay]

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“Seeking Natural Renewal: Rachmaninoff, Goethe, and Intonatsiya.” (Essay) Solicited & Commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and School, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Program Book (2024).

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 “Liberace’s Surfaces: Democratic Virtuosity, American Fantasies, and Vegas Pianism.” In The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas, edited by Jake Johnson (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2023.) [Peer-Reviewed Analytic Essay]

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REVIEWS & OTHER

Review of Erard: A Passion for the Piano by Robert Adelson (Oxford University Press, 2021). In H-France Review. June 2023, No. 108.

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Review of Romantic Anatomies of Performance by J.Q. Davies, ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal 13.1 http://www.echo.ucla.edu/review-graham-romantic-anatomies / (2015)

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EPIC Program Newsletter. (UCLA’s Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Program): Editor and Contributing Author. (Nine Issues: 2021 - October, November, and December. 2022 – January, February, March, April, May, and June). Delivered to UCLA’s divisions of humanities, history, and musicology audience of c. 600. Features brief articles on pedagogy, teaching resources, etc.) https://epic.ucla.edu/newsletter-archive/