John Koegel
Professor of Music
Contact
Location: CPAC听237
Phone: (657) 278-7685
Email: jkoegel@fullerton.edu
Please contact the Music Office听
(657)听278-3511 for current office hours
Courses
304, Music of Mexico
350, Music in American Society
351C, History and Literature of Western Music
456, Opera Literature
500, Introduction to Graduate Studies in Music
553, Seminar in Music of the Baroque Period
555, Seminar in Music of the Romantic Period
556, Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Music
John Koegel, Professor of Musicology, serves as Graduate Advisor for the School of Music, and Coordinator of Music History and Coordinator of Music in General Education. He teaches courses and conducts research in American, Mexican, and European musical topics, particularly musical theater and opera, and music in the context of ethnicity and immigration. His book听Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940听(University of Rochester Press, 2009) was given the Irving Lowens Book Award of the Society for American Music in 2011, and was a Finalist for the Theater Library Association鈥檚 2010 Freedley Award.听Opera News听(Metropolitan Opera Guild) described it as 鈥淒eep-delving. . . . Readable and entertaining. . . . A tour guide down a forgotten byway of the American immigrant experience.鈥
Koegel鈥檚 article 鈥淢exican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles Before 1950鈥 will appear in 2017 in The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles (University of California Press), edited by Josh Kun. He is currently working on the scholarly musical edition Mexican-American Music from Southern California, circa 1840-1920: The Lummis Cylinder Collection and Other Sources for the Music of the United States of America series (A-R Editions and American Musicological Society). And in 2013-14, Koegel was the recipient of a year-long Research Fellowship given by the National Endowment for the Humanities for work on his in-progress book听Mexican Musical Theater in Los Angeles, 1850-1950.
In 2013, he served as Chair of the C谩tedra Jes煤s C. Romero, of the Centro Nacional de Investigaci贸n, Documentaci贸n e Informaci贸n Musical Carlos Ch谩vez, in Mexico City. His articles and reviews appear in journals and dictionaries in the United States, Mexico, Spain, and Britain, such as the听Journal of the American Musicological Society,听American Music,听Latin-American Music Review,听Journal of the Royal Musical Association,听Historia Mexicana,听The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and听Diccionario de la M煤sica Espa帽ola e Hispanoamericana.
Koegel holds degrees from Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D. Musicology), Cambridge University (M.Phil. Ethnomusicology), and California State University, Northridge (B.A. Music Education and Spanish). He has served as Book Review Editor for the听Journal of the Society for American Music (2010-14), Member-at-large of the Board of Trustees of the Society for American Music (2013-16), Board Member for Musicology for the College Music Society (2011-13), and Member of the National Council of the American Musicological Society (2009-2011). Koegel was also a contributing editor for the听Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (2013).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
鈥淢exican Musical Theater and Movie Palaces in Downtown Los Angeles Before 1950.鈥 In听The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles, edited by Josh Kun. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
鈥淭he Early Sound of Mexican Musical Life in Los Angeles.鈥 In听Songs in the Key of Los Angeles, edited by Josh Kun, 142-49. Santa Monica, CA: Angel City Press, 2013.
鈥淐hapter 3. Mexico.鈥 In听Musics of Latin America, edited by Robin Moore and Walter Clark, 76-123. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.
Music, American Made: Essays in Honor of John Graziano, edited by John Koegel. Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2011.
鈥淏eethoven and Beer: Orchestral Music in German Beer Gardens in 19th-Century New York City.鈥澨齀n听American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Spitzer, 130-55. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
鈥淗acia un cat谩logo unificado nacional de impresos de m煤sica mexicana decimon贸nica.鈥贬别迟别谤辞蹿辞苍铆补听142 (January-June 2010): 9-53.
Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940. Eastman Studies in Music, 62. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2009; with accompanying compact disc.
鈥淕rabaciones tempranas de m煤sica y m煤sicos mexicanos.鈥澨Discanto: Ensayos de Investigaci贸n Musical听2 (2009): 63-83.
鈥淢usic and Christianization on the Northern Frontier of New Spain.鈥 In听Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas,听edited by听Calvin B. Kendall, Oliver Nicholson, William D. Phillips, Jr., and Marguerite Ragnow, 293-332. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, 2008.
鈥淣on-English Language Musical Theater in the United States.鈥 In听The Cambridge Companion to the听Musical, edited by Paul Laird and William Everett, 29-53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
鈥淩ural Musical Life in the French Villages in Upper Louisiana.鈥 In听On Bunker鈥檚 Hill: Essays on Music in Honor of J. Bunker Clark, edited by Paul Laird and William Everett, 13-25. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2007.
鈥淎dolf Philipp and Ethnic Musical Comedy in New York鈥檚 Little Germany.鈥澨American Music听24, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 267-319.
鈥淭he Development of the German-American Musical Theater in New York, 1840-1890.鈥 InEuropean Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900, edited by John Graziano, 149-81.Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.
鈥淢exican Musicians in California and the United States, 1910鈥1950.鈥澨California History听84, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 7-29, 64-69.
鈥淢煤sicos mexicanos y cubanos en Nueva York, c. 1880-1920.鈥澨Historia Mexicana听222 (October-December 2006): 533-612.
鈥淟a vida musical mexicana del siglo XIX vista por los extranjeros.鈥澨Discanto: Ensayos de Investigaci贸n Musical听1 (2005): 79-108.
鈥淐rossing Borders: Mexicana, Tejana, and Chicana Musicians in the United States and Mexico.鈥 In听From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music, edited by Walter Aaron Clark, 97-125. New York: Routledge, 2002.
鈥淪panish and French Mission Music in Colonial North America.鈥澨Journal of the Royal Musical Association听126, no. 1 (2001): 1-53.
鈥Canciones del pa铆s: Mexican Musical Life in California after the Gold Rush.鈥澨California History听78, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 160-87, 215-19.
鈥淣ew Sources of Music from Spain and Colonial Mexico at the Sutro Library.鈥澨Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association听55, no. 3 (March 1999): 583-613.
鈥淧reserving the Sounds of the 鈥極ld鈥 Southwest: Charles Lummis and his Cylinder Collection of Mexican-American and Indian Music.鈥澨Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal听29, no. 1 (April 1998): 1-29.
Music in Performance and Society: Essays in Honor of Roland Jackson, edited by Malcolm Cole and John Koegel. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1997.
鈥淰illage Musical Life along the R铆o Grande: Tom茅, New Mexico since 1739.鈥澨Latin-American Music Review听18, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1997): 171-248.