Chris Goertzen
Associate Professor of Music History
Ph.D., University of Illinois
M.M., University of Illinois
B.M., Austin College
E-mail: CGoertzen@megagate.com
Dr. Chris Goertzen, associate professor of music history, has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of North Carolina, Kenyon College and the University of Trondheim (Norway). He holds a B. A. in art and music from Austin College and the M. M. and Ph. D. in musicology from the University of Illinois. In addition, he has also studied at Schiller College (Berlin) and Harvard University.
His training is split evenly between Western music history and ethnomusicology, and his research emphasizes the latter area. Dr. Goertzen has done fieldwork in the United States, Austria, Norway, Mexico and Argentina. He is the author of Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity (1997) and coeditor of the European volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (2000).
Dr. Goertzen has published articles on the history of American folk fiddling, on traditional aspects of pop music in Europe and the Americas, on Mozart's piano concertos, and on Native American powwows. He has been active in the governance of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the American Folklore Society. He is working on a book examining the interaction of tradition as expressed in crafts and festivals with tourism in Oaxaca, Mexico.He plays the guitar and related instruments.