Richard Crawford (music historian)

Richard Arthur Crawford (May 12, 1935 – July 23, 2024) was an American music historian and professor of music at the University of Michigan.^[1] His American Musical Landscape was one of the seminal works of American music history,^[2] published in 2001. He published several other books, and edited a series of books on American music. He was an honorary member and president of the American Musicological Society,^[3] one of the founding members of the Society for American Music,^[4] and was the founder and editor-in-chief of MUSA (Music of the United States of America).^[5] He was born in Detroit.

Crawford died from congestive heart failure in Ann Arbor, on July 23, 2024, at the age of 89.^[6]

References

1. "Richard Crawford". University of Michigan Regents. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
2. "Faculty Awards: Richard Crawford, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award". The University Record. October 3, 1994. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
3. "AMS – Administration". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
4. "Richard Crawford to Deliver Inaugural Plenary Lecture". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
5. "Personnel". MUSA. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
6. "Richard Crawford, Renowned Music Historian, Dies at 89". The New York Times. July 30, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

External links

• Interview with Crawford in Humanities, November/December 1997
• Conference Report on the symposium honoring Crawford's retirement in Echo, Spring 2003
• Richard Crawford Bibliography in Echo, Spring 2003