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David VanderHamm is an interdisciplinary scholar of music and culture as well as an active guitarist. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at Johnson County Community College.

Dr. VanderHamm earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation on the social construction of virtuosity in 2017. His current research pursues the theme of virtuosities through both fieldwork and archival methods, exploring how wide-ranging displays and discourses of musical skill carry meaning for audiences in the U.S. during the age of electronic media. He has presented widely at national and international conferences, and his published work appears in  Journal of the Society for American Music, American Music, Oxford Bibliographies, The Public Historian, the Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising, and the Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, which he is also co-editing. He has previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Denver.

Education

Ph.D. Musicology (2017)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A. Musicology (2013). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.M. Guitar Performance (2011). University of Denver

B.A. Music (2007). Colorado Christian University

 

Publications

Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures. Edited by Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693879.001.0001

“Phenomenological Approaches in the History of Ethnomusicology,” co-authored with Harris Berger and Friedlind Riedel. In Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures. Edited by Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm. New York: Oxford University Press. In Press.

“‘I’m Just an Armless Guitarist’: Tony Melendez, Disability, and the Social Construction of Virtuosity.” Journal of the Society for American Music 14, no. 3 (August 2020).

“Virtuosity, Obviously:  Ravi Shankar, Historical Phenomenology, and the Valuation of Skill,” in Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Ethnomusicology. Edited by Harris M. Berger and Kati Szego. Oxford University Press. (Online Publication August 2021)

“‘All those Homes Beyond the Microphone’: Advertising, Domesticity, and Early Country Music Variety Programs in the 1930s,” in Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising. Edited by James Deaville, Ron Rodman, and Siu-Lan Tan. Oxford University Press: 2021.

“Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring,” American Music 36, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 507-526. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/715974

“Virtuosity/Virtuoso.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Music. Ed. Bruce Gustafson. New York: Oxford University Press, January 2018. http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0236

Preserving Heritage, Fostering Change: Accidental Archives in Country Music and Hip-Hop,” co-authored with Mark Katz, Public Historian 37, no. 4 (November 2015): 32–46. http://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2015.37.4.32

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