DBP       

David B. Pruett, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology

MTSU School of Music,
P.O. Box 47  
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132


Office: Saunders Fine Arts Building, 313
Tel. (615) 904-8354
Email: dpruett@mtsu.edu    
                   

MTSU

Publications

Monographs
 

MuzikMafia: From the Nashville Scene to the Popular Mainstream. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (at press)
 

Refereed Journals:

“Orff before Orff: The Güntherschule (1924-1945).” In Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 24:2 (April 2003): 178-96.

 

“Response to Younkin ‘Sing We and Chant It: Revisiting Some Musical Terminology’.” In Discourses in Music 4:1 (Fall 2002).

 

 “WPAQ Radio: The Voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains.” In Country Music Annual 2002, Charles K. Wolfe and James Akenson, eds. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002: 151-160.

 


Other Articles:

Heindl, Christian. “Zwei pannonische Weltbürger: Jenö Takács und Ernst von Dohnányi” (Two Pannonian Cosmopolitans: Jenö Takács and Ernst von Dohnányi), translated by David B. Pruett. In International Dohnányi Research Center Newsletter. (in press, forthcoming 2009).

 

“Radio Broadcasting,” WMMT,” “WNOX,” and “WPAQ.” In the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

 

“The Appalachians.” In Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume IV: Locations (North America). John Shepherd and David Horn, eds. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.



 Book Reviews (solicited):

 

Fox, Aaron. 2004. Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In Yearbook for Traditional Music 40 (winter 2008): 173-175.
 

Russell, Tony. 2007. Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost. New York: Oxford University Press. In American Music 26(4) (winter 2008).