Lawrence Gushee
Lawrence "Larry" Gushee (born February 25, 1931 in Ridley Park near Philadelphia in Pennsylvania ; † January 6, 2015 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American musicologist who dealt with the music of the Middle Ages and early jazz .
Gushee studied at Haverford College , Yale University , Dijon University and the Manhattan School of Music . He received his doctorate in 1959 from Yale (on a music theorist of the 9th century, "The Musica Disciplina of Aurelianus Reomensis : a critical edition and commentory") and taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison , Yale and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he became Professor Emeritus.
Gushee was twice a Guggenheim Fellow , once to study sources of medieval music in Europe, and once again for research on early jazz. One of his specialties was 14th century music in France ; But he was also considered one of the leading experts in early jazz. In particular, he investigated the role of Freddie Keppard's Creole Jazz Band in the spread of jazz on vaudeville tours from 1914 to 1918 before settling in Chicago .
Gushee also played traditional jazz and ragtime music as a clarinetist in the New Golden Rule Orchestra.
Fonts
- Pioneers of Jazz - the story of the Creole Band, Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 0195161319
- Supplement and publication of the new edition of Lomax “Mr. Jelly Roll - The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, "University of California Press
Web links
- Further biography
- Gushee, Carr, "How the Creole Band came to be," 1988
- Lawrence Gushee at Allmusic (English)
- Lawrence Gushee at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gushee, Lawrence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gushee, Larry (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musicologist and jazz writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ridley Park near Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2015 |
| Place of death | Urbana , Illinois |