Dr. John Koegel, L. Don Shields Excellence In Scholarship & Creativity Award Lecture

Hearing the Past through the Present: Mexican American Music and Theater in Southern California since the 1850s

Dr. John Koegel is CSUF’s L. Donald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativity Award winner for 2022 and serves as Professor of Musicology, Graduate Advisor, and Coordinator of Music History and Music in General Education for the School of Music. He teaches a variety of undergraduate music history courses and graduate musicology seminars, and conducts research on U.S., Mexican, and Latin American musical topics from the 18th century to the present, particularly musical theater and music in the context of ethnicity and immigration. His book Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 (University of Rochester Press, 2009) was given the Irving Lowens Book Award of the Society for American Music. He is currently working on the extensive musical edition Mexican American Music from California, circa 1840-1940: The Lummis Wax Cylinder Collection and Other Sources for the Music of the United States of America series (for A-R Editions and the American Musicological Society), and the book Music and Theater in Mexican Los Angeles, 1840-1940. Koegel has published reviews and peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, American Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Revista de Musicología, Heterofonía, Historia Mexicana, and California History, among others. His peer-reviewed book chapters appear in essay collections published by Oxford, Cambridge, California, Chicago, and Rochester university presses, and by other scholarly publishers. Koegel’s research work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and other organizations.