Project Description

Thomas J. Kernan is Associate Professor of Music History at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts and is both a scholar of Lincoln and of American music. In recent projects he has addressed the musical memorialization of Abraham Lincoln as well as the history of concert audiences’ musical and extra-musical experiences. Tom’s articles and essays have appeared in the American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter, Grove Dictionary of American Music, and edited collections published by Routledge and Rowman & Littlefield. Tom’s research has earned him awards from the Abraham Lincoln Association and Abraham Lincoln Institute, and a Rudolph Ganz Long-Term Fellowship from the Newberry Library.
During the Spring 2021 semester he will teach the Martirano’s L’s GA to both undergraduate students in a Western art music survey and graduate students in a seminar examining performer discourse.