 Professor and Vice-Chair
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Eastman School of Music
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Tamara Levitz specializes in musical modernism in Europe and the Americas, and has taught and published in the past on the Weimar Republic, American experimentalism, Cuban modernism, Avant-Garde music after 1945, modern dance, Stravinsky, John Cage, Kurt Weill, and popular music of the 1960s. Her articles have appeared in journals such as ECHO: a music-centered journal and the South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as in collections such as Beyond Structural Listening: Postmodern Modes of Hearing ( California, 2004), Impossible to Hold: Women, Culture and the Sixties ( New York University, 2004), and Amerikanismus/Americanism: Die Suche nach kultureller Identität in der Moderne (Schliengen 2003). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and the Humboldt Foundation. She is currently in the final stages of completing a book entitled Haunted Melodies: Transnational Encounters in Paris in the Early 1930s, which retells the story of musical modernism from the perspective of transnational black culture and the theories of bodily expressivity it inspired. This book takes her in the new direction of studying modernism in the Other Atlantic, from Cuba to West Africa.
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