John Koegel
Associate Professor of Music

John Koegel, associate professor and coordinator of music history, teaches courses in music history, musicology, Mexican and world music. His research specialties include Latin American, Mexican, Mexican-American and German-American musical traditions, with articles and reviews in journals, dictionaries and encyclopedias in the US, Mexico, Spain and Britain, including the Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, American Music, Latin-American Music Review, Journal of the American Musicological Society and Heterofonía, among others. He is completing a book: Music in German Immigrant Theater in New York, 1840-1930, and the musical edition Mexican-American Music from Nineteenth-Century California: The Lummis Folksong Collection. Koegel holds degrees from The Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D. historical musicology), Cambridge University (M.Phil. ethnomusicology), City University of New York (M.A. musicology), Cal State LA (M.A. music), and Cal State Northridge (B.A. music education & Spanish).