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Publication Studying U.S. Music in the 21st Century: A Colloquium
(University of California Press, 2011) Oja, Carol; Garrett, Charles HiroshiPublication Studying U.S. Music in the Twenty-First Century
(University of California Press, 2011) Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Oja, Carol; Lewis, George E.; Magee, Gayle Sherwood; Madrid, Alejandro L.; Tucker, Sherrie; Fink, RobertPublication Making Musicology Modern: An Interview with Carol Oja
(American Music Research Center, 2011) Oja, Carol; Riis, TomMusicologist Carol Oja is interviewed about her life and career, which focused on 20th-century American modernism, musical theater and cross-cultural composition.
Publication On Friends, Mothers, and Scholarship: A Tribute to Adrienne Fried Block
(H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, 2009) Oja, CarolPublication Dane Rudhyar's Vision of American Dissonance
(University of Illinois Press, 1999) Oja, CarolPublication The Copland-Sessions Concerts and Their Reception in the Contemporary Press
(Oxford University Press, 1979) Oja, CarolPublication The Still-Life Paintings of William Michael Harnett (Their Reflections upon Nineteenth-Century American Musical Culture)
(Oxford University Press, 1977) Oja, CarolPublication Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom
(Cambridge University Press, 2009) Oja, Carol; Shelemay, KayLeonard Bernstein is most often perceived as the quintessential New Yorker—music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969 and composer of Broadway shows that made New York their focus. Yet his grounding in the greater Boston area was powerful. He was born in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in various Jewish neighborhoods within Boston. The young Leonard went to Boston Latin, a prestigious public prep school, and graduated from Harvard in 1939. This article explores a team research project, made up of Harvard graduate students and undergraduates, which delved into the urban subcultures and post-immigrant experiences that shaped Bernstein’s youth and early adulthood. It considers the synergy between an individual and a community, and it examines the complexities of blending pedagogy with research, analyzing the multilayered methodologies and theoretical strategies that were employed. Given Bernstein’s iconic status, his life and career illuminate a broad range of questions about the nature of music in American society. Fusing the techniques of ethnographic and archival research, our team probed Bernstein’s formative connections to Jewish traditions through his family synagogue (CongregationMishkan Tefila), the ethnic geography that defined the Boston neighborhoods of his immigrant family, the network of young people involved in Bernstein’s summer theatrical productions in Sharon, Massachusetts, during the 1930s, and the formative role of the city’s musical venues and institutions in shaping Bernstein’s lifelong campaign to collapse traditional distinctions between high and low culture.
Publication Gershwin and American Modernists of the 1920s
(Oxford University Press, 1994) Oja, CarolPublication