David B. Pruett, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Performing Arts

McCormack Hall, 2nd floor, rm. 625
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Email:
david.pruett@umb.edu

                   

 

Publications

Monographs
 

MuzikMafia: From the Nashville Scene to the Popular Mainstream. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
(click here for the book's page at Amazon.com)
 

Refereed Journals:

"When the Tribe Goes Triple Platinum: A Case Study Towards an Ethnomusicology of Mainstream Popular Music in the U.S." In Ethnomusicology 55(1) (Winter 2011): 1-30.
 

“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:

“Alabama,” “Alan Jackson,” “Alison Krauss,” “Big & Rich,” “Brooks and Dunn,” “Clint Black,” “Dixie Chicks,” “Faith Hill,” “George Strait,” “Gretchen Wilson.” “Hank Williams Jr.,”  “Keith Urban,” “Kenny Chesney,” “Kid Rock,” “MuzikMafia,” “Shania Twain,” “Steve Earle,” “The Judds,” “Tim McGraw,” and “Vince Gill,” “In The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013..
 

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).