Faculty

ROB BOWMAN

BA, MFA (York), PhD (Memphis State)
Associate Professor: Ethnomusicology
Department of Music, York University

rbowman@yorku.ca

Bio | Honours and Awards | Publications | Liner Notes | Monographs | Recordings Produced

Books:

Head Arrangement and Improvisation in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Graz, Austria: Jazzforschung [forthcoming]

Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1997

 

Chapters in Books:

"Soul" and "Rockabilly" in Memphis Music, D. Evans ed. Chattanooga: University of Tennessee Press [at press]

"Meaning in Performance" in A. Moore, Innovative Approaches to Musicological Analysis of Popular Music, Cambridge University Press [at press]

"The Story of P-Funk" in The Best of George Clinton: Masters of Funk,  New York: JPMC Books, 1998

"A Conversation with B.B. King" in B.B. King Companion, Kostelanetz, ed. New York: Schirmer Books,1997

"The Rattling of the Drums: Political Expression in World Music" in Sounding Off: Music as Subversion, Resistance, Revolution, Ron Sakolsky and Fred Weihan Ho, eds. Brooklyn: Autonomedia,1996

Parliament/Funkadelic: Entropy as a Deviant Career Tool and Ideological Signifier", Not a Kid Anymore: Canadian Youth, Crime and Subcultures, G. O'Bireck, ed. Toronto: Nelson Books, 1996

"Funny How Time Slips Away (The Peacock Soul Years)" Duke/Peacock Records, G. Gart and R. C.Ames, Milford N.H.: Big Nickel Publications, 1990