VMC Contributing Faculty

Dr Christopher J Smith, director. Bio.

Courses/specializations include:

• American music (all eras & idioms)
• African-American music
• Vernacular musics of the world
• Improvisation
• 20th Century concert music
• Historical performance practice
• Music & politics

Professor Angela Mariani, contributing faculty. Bio.

Courses/specializations include:

• Medieval music and performance practice
• Graduate "Studies in Music History"
• Rock music history
• Music & the sacred

Dr Stacey Jocoy Houck, contributing faculty. Bio.

Courses/specializations include:

• Music of the English Renaissance
• Music bibliography
• Iconography
• Music &

Dr Cara Pollard, contributing faculty. Bio.

Courses/specializations include:

• Jazz history and performance practice
• Trumpet pedagogy and performance
• History of Western music