Dan Blim is an Assistant Professor of Music at Denison University. He earned a PhD in historical musicology and a certificate in Screen Arts and Cultures from the University of Michigan in 2013. His dissertation, Patchwork Nation: Collage, Music, and American Identity, won the Society for American Music’s H. Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award. His published research analyses Bernard Herrmann’s score to Vertigo, John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, and music in US electoral politics. In 2017–18, he will be a Research Fellow at the University of Rochester’s Humanities Center, where he will develop a book project on the role of sound and music in public memory in the United States.
Contact : blimd@denison.edu
Séance - Modern American Composers 12.J.3 : “I Saw You and the World Went Away”: Leonard Bernstein and Modulatory Practices in the Broadway Musical
