Stanley C. Pelkey, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Historical Musicology, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), 2004
M.A. History, University of Rochester, Department of History (Rochester, NY), 2006
M.A. Historical Musicology, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), 1996
B.A. Music History and Organ Performance, Asbury University (Wilmore, KY), Summa Cum Laude, 1994
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Pelkey, Stanley C. and Anthony Bushard, eds. Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Jackson, Jeffrey H. and Stanley C. Pelkey, eds. Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Peer-Reviewed Chapters
Pelkey, Stanley C., “Dexter at Home in Suburbia: Domesticated Monster / Ideal Father,” in Pop Culture Matters: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the
Northeast Popular Culture Association, Martin F. Norden and Robert E. Weir, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
Pelkey, Stanley C. “‘You Can’t Build an Empire Without Getting a Mite Unscrupulous’: Music, Morality, and Cold War Criticism in Doctor Who’s ‘The Gunfighters’ (1966).” In Relocating the Sounds of the Western, Kendra Preston Leonard and Mariana Whitmer, eds. Routledge, Ashgate Screen Media Series, 2018 (ISBN: 9781138571532).
Pelkey, Stanley C. “Still Flyin’? Conventions, Reversals, and Musical Meaning in Firefly.” In Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon, Kendra Preston Leonard, ed. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Commissioned Articles
“Film Music.” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip C. DiMare. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“Grease.” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip C. DiMare. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“The Magnificent Seven.” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip C. DiMare. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“Moulin Rouge!” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip C. DiMare. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“The Searchers.” Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Philip C. DiMare. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“Benjamin Britten.” New Catholic Encyclopedia: Supplement 2011, edited by Robert L. Fastiggi. 2 vols. Detroit: Gale, 2011.
Refereed Articles
“William L. Viner.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: MacMillan, 2001.
The revision of the Worklist of the “Samuel Wesley” entry. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: MacMillan, 2001. With Philip J. Olleson.
“The Preludes in All the Keys throughout the Octave by Samuel Wesley.” The Early Keyboard Journal 15 (1997): 67–92.
Non-Refereed Articles
“Handel and Samuel Wesley: A Case Study in Handel Reception in the Later Georgian Period.” London Handel Institute Newsletter 11 (Autumn, 2000).
Book Reviews
Review of J. Lloyd Winstead, When Colleges Sang: The Story of Singing in American College Life (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013); The American Historical Review (June 2014): 884–885.
Review of David W. Stowe, No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism (University of North Carolina
Press, 2011); Music Reference Services Quarterly 14, no. 4 (2011): 271–275.
Review of Adam Krims, Music and Urban Geography (Routledge, 2007); Bulletin of the Society of American Music 35, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 31–32.
Book Reviews Continued
Review of Sally McKee, The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2018 (55-3162).
Review of Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor (Duke University Press, 2016); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2017 (55-0114).
Review of Cameron Pyke, Benjamin Britten and Russia (Boydell Press, 2016); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, March 2017 (54-3151).
Review of Tim Rayborn, A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in England’s Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid-20th Century (McFarland, 2016); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 2017 (54-2156).
Review of David Neumeyer, Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2015); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August 2016 (53-5196).
Review of Michael Hall, Music Theatre in Britain 1960–1975 (The Boydell Press, 2015); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 2016 (53-3442).
Review of Ellen T. Harris, George Friderick Handel: A Life with Friends (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, October 2015 (53-0685).
Review of Bob Gilmore, Claude Vivier: A Composer’s Life (University of Rochester Press, 2014); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 2015
(52-4111).
Review of Katherine Spring, Saying it with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2013); Choice:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, October 2014 (52-0729).
Review of Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, eds. Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten 1913-1976, vol. 6 (1966-1976) (Boydell Press, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 2014 (51-4348).
Review of E. Douglas Bomberger, MacDowell (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, March 2014 (51-3742).
Review of Aaron Clark and William Craig Kraus, Frederico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts (Oxford University Press, 2013); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 2014 (51-2566).
Review of Janet K. Halfyard, ed., The Music of Fantasy Cinema (Equinox, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2013 (50-5505).
Review of Joel Sachs, Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music (Oxford University Press, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2013
(50-4909).
Review of Matthew Brown, Debussy Redux: the Impact of His Music on Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February 2013 (50-3166).
Review of Michael Puri, Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire (Oxford University Press, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, November 2012 (50-1374).
Review of R. J. Stove, César Franck: His Life and Times (Scarecrow Press, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August 2012 (49-6795).
Review of Kathryn Kalinak, ed., Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier (Routledge, 2012); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2012
(49-5578).
Review of Max Stern, Bible & Music: Influences of the Old Testament on Western Music (KTAV Publishing House, 2011); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2012 (49-5584).
Review of Amy C. Beal, Carla Bley (Illinois University Press, 2011); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 2012 (49-4365).
Review of Peter Franklin, Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores (Oxford University Press, 2011); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 2012 (49-2576).
Review of Robert Miklitsch, Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir (Rutgers University Press, 2011); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2011 (49-0169).
Review of Gregg Redner, Deleuze and Film Music: Building a Methodological Bridge Between Film Theory and Music (Intellect, 2011); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August 2011 (48-6811).
Review of Robert Riggs, Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher (University of Rochester Press, 2010); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries, June 2011 (48-5605).
Review of Marc D. Moskovitz, Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony (Boydell Press, 2010); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 2011
(48-2584).
Review of Rebecca Coyle, ed., Drawn to Sound: Animation Film Music and Sonicity (Equinox, 2010); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries,
December 2010 (48-1953).
Review of Neil Lerner, ed., Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear (Routledge, 2010); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2010
(48-0152).
Review of Tim Lawrence, Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992 (Duke University Press, 2009); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2010 (47-4929).
Review of Jeremy Nicholas, The Great Composers: The Lives and Music of the Great Classical Composers (Quercus, 2009); Choice: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries, January 2010 (47-2344).
Review of Barry Cooper, Child Composers & Their Works: A Historical Survey (Scarecrow Press, 2009); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, December 2009 (47-1906).
Review of William Everett, Rudolf Friml (University of Illinois Press, 2008); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2009 (46-4924).
Review of Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 2008); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, January 2009 (46-2567).
Review of John Purser, Scotland’s Music: A History of the Traditional and Classical Music of Scotland from Early Times to the Present Day (Mainstream
Publishing, 2007); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2008 (46-0193).
Review of Michael Kurtz, Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography (Indiana University Press, 2007); Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, July 2008 (45-6074).
Representative Conference Presentations
International Conferences
“STEAM Before STEM: Lewis Mumford's Ideas about Art and Technology and Why They Matter Today." Presentation given at the annual national conference of the College Music Society, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (October 2018).
“Reflections Ten Years Out.” Presentation given as part of the roundtable “The Challenge of Studying Music and History Together,” Session 44 of the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (January 2014).
“From Dante to Ralph Vaughan Williams: Love, Music, and Spiritual Transcendence in Willow-Wood.” Paper read at the biennial conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, Canada (July 2008).
“The Classical Samuel Wesley as Seen and Heard in His Mature Piano Sonatas.” Paper read at the interdisciplinary conference “Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys,” University of Bristol, United Kingdom (July 2007).
“Medieval Music: Who Wasn’t Listening?” Presentation given as part of “Teaching Music in the Humanities: A Roundtable,” Session 615 of the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 2007).
“Musical Quotation, Keyboard Music, and British National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Paper read at the interdisciplinary conference “Narrating the Eighteenth Century,” University of Exeter, United Kingdom (April 2007).
“Music, Memory, and the People in Selected British Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.” Paper read at the interdisciplinary conference “Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century: European Literatures, Histories, Arts,” University of Wales in Cardiff (July 2001).
“A Nation of Shopkeepers, Not of Musicians?” Paper read at the annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. John’s College, Oxford University (January 2001).
“Musical Canons, Cosmopolitanism, and the Music and Thought of Samuel Wesley.” Paper read at the Second Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, University of Durham, United Kingdom (July 1999).
“Diversity and Unity: A Study of Text-Music Relationships in the Credos of the Old Hall Manuscript.” Paper read at the annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (July 1996).
National Conferences
"Religion, Morality, Belonging, and Music in Vikings." Paper read at the 2018 Film & History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin (November 2018).
"Music, the Moral Geography, and Interior Spaces in Dexter." Paper read at the 2018 Popular Culture Association National Conference, Indianapolis (March 2018).
"Dexter at Home in Suburbia: Domesticated Monster/Ideal Father." Paper read at the 2017 Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(November 2017).
“Megamachines, Monstrous Gods, and Illusions of Freedom in Science Fiction Television.” Paper read at the 2016 Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 2016).
“Building Better Support When Using Technology in Music History Courses.” Poster Session presentation at the annual, national conference of the Association
for Technology in Music Instruction, Salt Lake City, Utah (November 2007). With Kenneth Smith.
“Designing Multimedia Projects for a ‘Music in Film’ Course.” Paper read at the annual, national conference of the Association for Technology in Music
Instruction, San Antonio, Texas (September 2006). With Kenneth Smith.
“The Wesleys, Jung, and Wittgenstein: Unlikely Intersections in Aesthetics, Ethics, and Music Education.” Paper read at the annual conference of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (February 2006).
“Disruptive Musical Associations and Two Motion Pictures about World War II.” Paper read at the 2004 Film & History Conference, “War in Film, TV,
and History,” Dallas, Texas (November 2004).
“Music as Moral Education.” Paper read at the interdisciplinary conference “The Schooled Heart,” Baylor University, Waco, Texas (November 2003).
“Political Discourse and the Representation of Kingship in the Music of Handel.” Paper read at the annual Maryland Handel Festival, University of Maryland, College Park (November 1998).
“Medieval Spirituality, Sanctity, and Sexuality: The Evidence from Musical Texts of the Thirteenth through the Early Fifteenth Centuries.” Paper read at the Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium on Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies, University of Miami, Florida (February 1997).
Regional Conferences
“Edith Sings: Music, Nostalgia and Moral Character in All in the Family." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association, Indianapolis (October 2018).
"Blended Worship.” An invited ‘interest session’ presentation given at the annual meeting of the Michigan Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant (October 2009).
“Musical Quotation and the ‘Moral Geography’ in Leave it to Beaver.” Paper read at the Great Lakes / Great Plains Super Regional Conference of the College Music Society, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois (March 2008).
“Handel and Bach in the Organ Voluntaries of Charles and Samuel Wesley.” Paper read at the annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, Missouri (October 2004).
“Musical and Poetic Images of the British Nation at War, 1756–1815.” Paper read at the annual conference of the New York State Association of European Historians, Hartwick College (September 2001).
“Approaches to Sonata Procedures in British Keyboard Music from 1760–1820.” Paper read at the annual conclave of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, University of Virginia (March 2001).
“G. F. Handel’s Music at the Intersection of Political, Religious, and Domestic Spaces in Britain, 1760–1840.” Paper read at the annual conference of the Northeast Chapter of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southern Maine (October 2000).
"The Celtic Fringe in the Anglo-Saxon Parlor? Music and the Invention of British Culture and National Identity.” Paper read at the annual conference of the Northeast Chapter of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of New Hampshire (December 1999).
“John Bull Speaks his Mind: A Musical (and National) Crisis in Georgian Britain?” Paper read at the annual conference of the New England Historical Association, Suffolk University, Boston (October 1999).