Dr. Glenda Goodman

Biography

Glenda Goodman specializes in American music from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, focusing on material culture, book history, amateur music-making, gender, and soundscapes of colonialism. Her book, 'Cultivated Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic,' examines the intersections of history, gender, and labor in the world of amateur music-making during the American Revolution, earning her the Lewis Lockwood Book Award from the American Musicological Society in 2021. Goodman also received the Alfred Einstein Article Award for her article 'Bound Together: Intimacies of Music and Book Collecting in the Early American Republic.' Currently, she is working on a project that investigates Protestant sacred music and settler colonialism in the eighteenth century, particularly examining the role of music in the territorialization and adaptation of hymnody among Native American groups. Her research has been featured in various journals and edited collections, highlighting her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. With a strong foundation as a performer, she teaches courses on American music, popular music, and methods for studying music history. Her approach to teaching blends her historical training and her background as a musician, aiming to foster an interdisciplinary understanding of music and its cultural contexts.

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