Musicology Now is pleased to welcome
Christopher J. Smith to our editorial team. Smith is
Professor, Chair of Musicology, and director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of
Music. His research interests are in African-American Music, 20th Century
Music, Irish traditional music and other vernaculars, improvisation, music and
politics, and historical performance. He records and tours with Altramar medieval music ensemble, the Irish traditional band Last Night’s Fun, the Juke Band (pre-WWII blues and jazz), and the pan-European Balfolk group Rattleskull. His full-length theatrical dance show Dancing at the Crossroads premiered in February 2013 and his scholarly
monograph, The
Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of
Blackface Minstrelsy (Illinois), was the
winner of the Irving Lowens award from the Society for American Music in 2013. Smith's new monograph for Illinois is Movement Revolutions: Bodies, Spaces, and Noise in
American Cultural History (2019). He
is the Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Vernacular Music Center, directs the TTU Celtic Ensemble, and arranges for and conducts the Elegant Savages Orchestra symphonic folk group at Texas Tech. He is
a former nightclub bouncer, framing carpenter, lobster fisherman, and oil-rig
roughneck, and a published poet.
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