Steven Baur
Musicology, Popular Music
E-mail: steven.baur@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-6502
Office: Room 509, Dalhousie Arts Centre
Biography: Dr. Steven Baur earned his PhD in Musicology at UCLA in 2001. He was Assistant Professor at Occidental College and Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA before coming to Dalhousie in 2005.
Professor Baur’s primary areas of research are nineteenth-century music, American music, cultural studies in music, and popular music studies. He has published articles on the music of Felix Mendelssohn, Maurice Ravel, and the Beatles, and his work appears in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, American Music, and Popular Music and Society. He is the co-editor of Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McCalry (Ashgate, 2008) with Raymond Knapp and Jacqueline Warwick, and he co-edited The Beatles and Philosophy (Open Court, 2006) with Michael Baur. He is currently working on a book investigating the role of music in defining and negotiating class relationships in late nineteenth-century America, covering music from the concert hall to the dance hall, from the opera stage to the blackface minstrel stage.
Dr. Baur is also an accomplished drummer with numerous live performances and recordings to his credit. He currently performs in Halifax with The Sorrys, who are working on the follow-up to their critically acclaimed first album, The Last Clear Thought Before You Fall Backwards (Chrissy Horse Music, 2007).
