Lawrence Gushee

Professor Emeritus of Musicology

Ph.D., Yale University; additional studies at Haverford College, Yale, the University of Dijon (France), and the Manhattan School of Music

Previously, Gushee taught at Yale and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  He spent two years conducting research on medieval music in European libraries, one of those as a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.  More recently, he has devoted himself to research on the early history of jazz and related musics, for which he was awarded a second Guggenheim Fellowship.  His most recent articles are "Jehan des Murs and His Milieu," in Musik und die Geschichte der Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften, edited by Frank Hentschel (Leide: E. J. Brill), and "The Improvisation of Louis Armstrong," in In the Course of Performance, edited by UIUC Professor Emeritus Bruno Nettl (University of Chicago Press, 1998), and a 7000-word addition to the reissue of Alan Lomax's Mister Jelly Roll by the University of California Press. With the New Golden Rule Orchestra, he has participated as clarinetist in many performances featuring ragtime and jazz of the period 1900-1920.