Essays About Joseph Kerman

The Great Dispute

We have reached the 50th anniversary of a memorable dialogue on the nature of American musicology. It began with Joseph Kerman’s “A Profile for American Musicology” as delivered at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, 27 December 1964, and continued through volume 18 of the Society’s Journal. Its… Read More

Joe

by D. Kern Holoman Joseph Kerman at 60 Just before his 60thbirthday, after Andrew Porter had (yet again) cited Opera as Dramain that week’s New Yorker, I asked Joe what it what it was like to be so… Read More

Remembering Joe Kerman

Sarah Fuller I came to graduate study at Berkeley in 1961 as someone unschooled in the labyrinths and habitudes of musicology and with great gaps in cognizance of repertory, and Joseph Kerman became a formative guide to me. I recall especially my two first-year seminars with him. One dealt… Read More

Connecting

Once connected to the news each morning (unlike certain New Yorkers last week), I try not to succumb to lists (“Five Things the Government Can Do to Lower Airline Ticket Prices;” “3… Read More