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- Musicologist Charles Edward Hamm (April 21, 1925 – October 16, 2011) was an American musicologist, writer, composer, and music educator. He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music.
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Charles Edward Hamm (April 21, 1925 – October 16, 2011) was an American musicologist, writer, composer, and music educator. He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music.
As a veteran Marine sergeant, retired businessman, and successful entrepreneur, Charles Hamm has lived his life embodying Texas grit, but as the cowboy is slowing down, you can find him embracing the bucolic life, sharing his daily ponderings with humor and southern flare.
May 30, 2007 · On this page, we feature composer, educator, and AMC board member Janice Giteck’s personal thoughts on what Charles Hamm’s writings have meant to her and her students at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts.
Oct 23, 2011 · Charles Hamm, who helped establish the field of American popular music history with two books that have become standard texts, died on Oct. 16 in Lebanon, N. H. He was 86. The cause was...
Jan 7, 2005 · To celebrate Charles Hamm's eightieth birthday, Popular Music is pleased to offer four tributes to a great pioneering scholar (and one of its founding editors).
Amid the entertainment of his fireside stories woven into the tapestry of his escapades lies the soothing voice we long to hear, the sigh of relief that tells us we can simply let go and abide an age-old pleasure: hanging on to a master storyteller constructing that new reality rising around us.
Charles Hamm, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor Emeritus of Music at Dartmouth College, is perhaps the most prominent writer about American popular music today. His many books include Yesterdays:...
