Steven Baur
Associate Professor, Musicology; Gender and Women's Studies - Cross Appointment
Email: steven.baur@dal.ca
Phone: 902.494.6502
Fax: 902.494.2805
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Critical musicology
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century western music
- American music
- Russian music
- Popular music studies
- Drum kit studies
- Rhythm and groove studies
- Beatles studies
Education
- BA (Loyola Marymount)
- MA (UCLA)
- PhD (UCLA)
Research & creative activity
Professor Baurās primary areas of research include nineteenth-century music, American music,Ā Russian music, cultural studies in music, and popular music studies, and he has published articles, book chapters, and reviews on these and other topics. Current research projects include a book-length study investigating the role of music in defining notions of class, gender, and race in nineteenth-century America and an article tracing the cultural history of the backbeat. Dr. Baur is also an accomplished drummer with numerous live performances and recordings to his credit.Ā He performs in Halifax with The Sorrys, who recently released their third album.
Teaching
- Music History I ()
- Music History II ()
- Popular Music until 1960 ()
Selected publications
- āC±ō²¹²õ²õ,ā Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
- āāWaltz Me Around Again Willieā: Gender, Ideology, and Dance in the Gilded Ageā in Steven Baur, Raymond Knapp, and Jacqueline Warwick, eds., Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008): 47-61.
- āāYou Say You Want a Revolutionā: The Beatles and Marxismā in Michael Baur and Steven Baur, eds., The Beatles and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2006): 87-105.
- āRingo āRound Revolver: Rhythm, Timbre, and Tempo in Rock Drummingā in Every Sound There Is: Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll, ed. Russell Reising (London: Ashgate Press, 2002): 171-83.
- āMusic, Morals, and Social Management: Mendelssohn in Post-Civil War Americaā American Music 19, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 64-130.
- āRavelās āRussianā Period: Octatonicism in His Early Works, 1893-1908ā Journal of the American Musicological Society 52, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 531-92.