Music Department Faculty
Mark Katz
Associate Professor
Office: 209 Hill Hall
Email: mkatz@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-5335
Professor Katz lectures frequently on music to academic and non-academic audiences. He has been a guest speaker at universities throughout the U.S. and in England, and has addressed general audiences through pre-concert lectures, radio and television interviews, website chats, and engagements at the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere. He serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Musicology and editorial board of the Journal of the Society for American Music.
Mark Katz is a long-time violinist, a beginning turntablist, and a DJ at UNC’s radio station, WXYC 89.3 FM
Selected Publications
Books
Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
The Social Life of Sound Technologies: A History in Documents (with Timothy Taylor and Anthony Grajeda). Forthcoming from Duke University Press.
The Violin: A Research and Information Guide. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Winner of the 2007 Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology
Articles and Book Chapters
“Men, Women, and Turntables: Gender and the DJ Battle.” Musical Quarterly 89 (Summer 2006): 580-99. [Actual publication date April 2008.]
“Portamento and the Phonograph Effect.” Journal of Musicological Research 25 (2006): 211-32.
“Beethoven in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Violin Concerto on Record.” Beethoven Forum 10 (Spring 2003): 38–55.
“Hindemith, Toch, and Grammophonmusik.” Journal of Musicological Research 20 (2001): 161–80.
“Aesthetics out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato and the Phonograph.” In I Sing the Body Electric: Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century, ed. Hans-Joachim Braun, 186–97. Hofheim: Wolke, 2000. Also published as Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
“Making America More Musical Through the Phonograph, 1900–1930.” American Music 16 (Winter 1998): 448–75.
Reviews and Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries
“GrandWizzard Theodore.” African American National Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Vinyl.” International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd ed. Ed. William A. Darity. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
Review of Echo & Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, by Peter Doyle. ARSC Journal 37 (Fall 2006): 231-32.
Review of Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop, by Joseph Schloss. Notes 61 (June 2005): 1028-31.
Review of Conversation Pieces, by Paul Lansky. American Music 22 (Summer 2004): 327-29.
“Ivan Galamian”; “Felix Galimir”; “Jascha Heifetz”; “Fritz Kreisler”; ”Jaime Laredo”; “Nathan Milstein.” In Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd ed. Ed. Ludwig Finscher. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002–2004.
“Compact Disc”; “DJ”; “Turntablism”; “Recording” [revision]. In The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed. Ed. Don Michael Randel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Review of A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History, by Timothy Day. Notes 58 (December 2001): 383–85.
Review of Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945, by William Howland Kenney. American Music 18 (Winter 1999): 469–71.
“Gary Powell Nash.” In International Dictionary of Black Composers, II: 874–78. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
“Sound Recording”; “Violin.” In Reader’s Guide to Music History. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
Selected Courses
The Art and Culture of the DJ (Music 061H)
Introduction to Rock (Music 143)
World Musics in Theory and Practice (Music 234)
Resources and Methods in Musicology I (Music 750)
Proseminar in Ethnomusicology: Music, Technology, and Culture (Music 870)