Hamm, Charles (Edward)
Hamm, Charles (Edward)
Hamm, Charles (Edward), American musicologist; b. Charlottesville, Va., April 21, 1925. He studied at the Univ. of Va. (B.A., 1947) and Princeton Univ. (M.F.A., 1950;Ph.D., 1960, with the diss. A Chronology of the Works of Guillaume Dufay, publ. in Princeton, 1964). He taught at Princeton Univ. (1948-50; 1958), at the Cincinnati Cons, of Music (1950–57), and at Tulane Univ. (1959–63). In 1963 he was appointed prof, of musicology at the Univ. of Ill. In 1976 he joined the faculty of Dartmouth Coll. He served as president of the American Musicological Soc. from 1973 to 1974, and in 1993 he was made an honorary member. A versatile scholar, Hamm publ, books ona variety of subjects, including Opera (Boston, 1966), Yesterdays: Popular Song in America (N.Y, 1979), Music in the New World (N.Y, 1983), AfroAmerican Music, South Africa, and Apartheid (N.Y, 1988), Putting Popular Music in Its Place (Cambridge, 1995), and Irving Berlin: Songs From the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914 (N.Y, 1997).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire