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Howard Spring

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Assistant Professor

Education

  • 1993Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1980M.F.A. York University, Toronto
  • 1976B.F.A. York Univesrity, Toronto

Areas of Expertise/Specialization

  • Ethnomusicology, Jazz studies, music of the Circum-Atlantic, improvisation, jazz and dance, music of the 20th century.

Selected Publications

  • "Dance" in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2002
  • "Swing and the Lindy hop: Dance, Venue, Media, and Tradition" American Music 15 (Summer 1997)
  • "The Use of Formulas in the Improvisations of Charlie Christian" Jazzforschung/Jazz Research 22 (1990)