Amy C. Beal

BOOKS:

• Terrible Freedom: The Life and Work of Lucia Dlugoszewski (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press, 2022)
• Johanna Beyer (University of Illinois Press, American Composers Series; 2015).
• Carla Bley (University of Illinois Press, American Composers Series; 2011).
• Carla Bley [Spanish-language edition] (Templo en el Oido [Buenos Aires], 2016).
• New Music, New Allies—American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press, 2006).

 CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

• "Living in the (Publishing) House of Music: A Short History of Composer-Driven Publication and Distribution in the U.S.," Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas Riis, eds. (University of Illinois Press, 2019): 138-156.  
• “Musica Elettronica Viva and the Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tradition and Improvisation in Self-Exile ca. 1970,” Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000 (Basel: Paul Sacher Fundation, 2014): 364-371.
• “Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974,” in Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff, edited by Philip Thomas and Stephen Chase (Ashgate, 2010).
• “Music is a Universal Human Right: Musica Elettronica Viva,” Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties, Robert Adlington, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009): 99-120.
• “Time Canvasses: Morton Feldman and the Painters of the New York School,” in Modern Art and Music (Border Crossings).  James Leggio, ed. (New York: Routledge Publishing, 2002), 227-245.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• "Filling in the Gaps: Some Concluding Thoughts on Music History and Biography," Musica Judaica, vol. 22 (5779/2018-19): 132-35.
• "Why We Sing: David Mahler's Communities," Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 7, No 1 (2013): 1-28. 
• “Her Whimsy and Originality Really Amount To Genius: New Biographical Research on Johanna Beyer,” American Music Review Vol. 38, No. 1 (fall 2008; formerly The Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter): 1, 4-5, 12-13.
• “Experimentalists and Independents are Favored—Mapping Americana: John Edmunds in Conversation with Peter Yates and John Cage, 1959-61,” Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 64/4 (June 2008): 659-87.
• “Politics and Protest in American Musical History,” Music and Politics (online journal), volume 3 (January 2008).
• “An Interview with Earle Brown,” Contemporary Music Review 26/3-4 (June/August 2007): 341-56. 
• “David Tudor in Darmstadt,” Contemporary Music Review 26/1 (February 2007): 77-88.
• “The Army, the Airwaves, and the Avant-Garde: American Classical Music in Postwar West Germany,” American Music Volume 21, No. 4 (winter 2003): 474-513.
• “A Place to Ply Their Wares With Dignity: American Composer-Performers in West Germany, 1972,” Musical Quarterly Volume 86, No. 2 (summer 2002): 327-346.
• “Negotiating Cultural Allies: American Music in Darmstadt, 1946-1956,” in Journal of the American Musicological Society, Volume 53, No. 1 (spring 2000): 105-139. [winner of the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award]

MUSICOLOGY BLOGS:

• “We Still Have Work To Do! An Open Letter to Young Musicologists” (2015)
• “New Discovery in Johanna Beyer Research” (2014)
• “Christian Wolff at 80” (2014)

LINER NOTES:

• "Clusters: American Piano Explorations": Rory Cowal, Piano (New World Records, September 2018).
• "Six Primes," Chris Brown, Six Primes (New World Records, July 2016), 2-12.  
• "A Distant Music: The Office Next Door," Paul Nauert, A Distant Music (New World Records, June 2015), 2-12.
• "The Awesome Unflappability of Joseph Kubera," Book of Horizons: Joseph Kubera, Piano (New World Records, 2014).
• "Downtown's Flexible Son: Daniel Goode and Total Overload," Daniel Goode: Annbling (New World Records, 2014).
• "Single Side Only: Size Matters, But One Page is All You Need," Underwater Princess Waltz: A Collection of One-Page Pieces. Recordings by Zwerm (New World Records, 2013).  
• "Trio: Dong, Polansky, Wolff" (Henceforth Records, 2012). 
• “A Short Stop Along the Way: Each-Thingness and Music for Merce,” Music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1952-2009) (New World Records, 2010).
• “Timeless Pulse: A Few Thoughts.” Timeless Pulse Trio: Pauline Oliveros, George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey Marsh (Taiga Records, 2010).
• “Why We Sing: David Mahler’s Piano Music” (New World Records, 2010).
• “Dreaming of Virtuosity”: Michael Byron, Dreamers of Pearl (New World Records, 2008).
• “Nature is the Best Dictator—Twentieth-Century American Violin Music,” Works for Violin by Miwako Abe and Michael Kieran Harvey (New World Records. 2006).

 BOOK REVIEWS:

• Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification and the Americans, 1945-1953, by David Monod (Chapel Hill: University  of North Carolina Press, 2005); in American Studies 48/2 (summer 2008).
• CageTalk: Dialogues With and About John Cage, Peter Dickinson, ed. (University of Rochester Press, 2006); in twentieth-century music 5/1 (July 2008).
• Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art, edited by David W. Bernstein and Christopher Hatch (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001), book review in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (winter 2002): 337-339.
• Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950.  Michael Saffle, ed. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000), book review in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 58/1 (September 2001): 101-103.
• The Music of Morton Feldman (1996) edited by Thomas DeLio, book review in The Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin (Spring 1998): 23.

 BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY ARTICLES:

• Biographical Dictionary Articles: “Muhal Richard Abrams” (Vol. 1), “Roque Cordero” (Vol. 1), and “Tania León” (Vol. 2), in The International Dictionary of Black Composers.  Samuel A. Floyd, ed. (Chicago, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999): 4-7 (Abrams); 306-310 (Cordero); 717-19 (León).

 DISSERTATION:

• “Patronage and Reception History of American Experimental Music in West Germany, 1945-1986,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, 1999. [winner of the Society for American Music Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award]

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EDITORIAL/BOARD SERVICE:

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, Music of the United States of America (AMS/COPAM)
• Chair, Committee for the Publication of American Music (2014-17)
• Advisory Board, Tempo Magazine 
• Appointed Member, AMS Committee on the Publication of American Music (COPAM)
• Appointed Member, Board of Trustees, New World Records
• Book Reviews Editor (2008-10), Journal for the Society of American Music 
• Past President of the Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society

OTHER PAST EMPLOYMENT:

• Mills College (Visiting Professor, spring semester 2010)
• Princeton University (Visiting Associate Professor of Music, 2006-07)
• Bates College (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, 1999-2001)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2001: American Musicological Society, Alfred Einstein Award for article "Negotiating Cultural Allies: American Music in Darmstadt 1946-56," Journal of the American Musicological Society 53 (2000).
• 1999: Society for American Music, Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award, "Patronage and Reception History of American Experimental Music in West Germany, 1945-86," University of Michigan, 1999.