麻豆传媒

Education

• BA (Loyola Marymount)
• MA (UCLA)
• PhD (UCLA)

Research & creative activity

Professor Baur鈥檚 primary areas of research include nineteenth-century music, American music,聽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.聽 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

• 鈥淐濒补蝉蝉,鈥� Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2^nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• 鈥溾�榃altz Me Around Again Willie鈥�: Gender, Ideology, and Dance in the Gilded Age鈥� in Steven Baur, Raymond Knapp, and Jacqueline Warwick, eds., Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008): 47-61.
• 鈥溾�榊ou Say You Want a Revolution鈥�: The Beatles and Marxism鈥� in Michael Baur and Steven Baur, eds., The Beatles and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2006): 87-105.
• 鈥淩ingo 鈥橰ound Revolver: Rhythm, Timbre, and Tempo in Rock Drumming鈥� in Every Sound There Is: Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll, ed. Russell Reising (London: Ashgate Press, 2002): 171-83.
• 鈥淢usic, Morals, and Social Management: Mendelssohn in Post-Civil War America鈥� American Music 19, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 64-130.
• 鈥淩avel鈥檚 鈥楻ussian鈥� Period: Octatonicism in His Early Works, 1893-1908鈥� Journal of the American Musicological Society 52, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 531-92.