James Brooks Kuykendall (jkuykend)

Professor and Chair

Music

Music history, text criticism, editing, British music, Gilbert & Sullivan

Pollard Hall Room 209
jkuykend@umw.edu
540-654-1958

Academic Degrees

B.A. (music), Erskine College, 1997; M.A. (musicology), Cornell University, 2000; Ph.D. (musicology), Cornell University, 2005

Areas of Expertise-Music history, text criticism, editing, British music, Gilbert & Sullivan

James Brooks Kuykendall in the News

Kuykendall Pursues Gilbert & Sullivan From a Musicological Angle

Music Professor Brooks Kuykendall, currently in the second year of a Waple Professorship, has seen some of the fruits of his research emerging in the last few weeks: his article on fandom in the 1920s and 30s in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society (a preliminary version of which was presented Read more…

Kuykendall Among NABMSA Founders Honored

In the summer of 2003, five American graduate students leaned against a stone wall during a tea break at a conference at the University of Leeds and asked "Why do we always have to come to the UK to talk about British music?" They decided to plan a conference but Read more…

Kuykendall Will Take Local Audiences ‘to Italy’

On Friday, Oct. 21, Music Department Professor and Chair Brooks Kuykendall will present “The Idea of Italy in Music History” at St. George’s Church in downtown Fredericksburg. Read more about the event in The Free Lance-Star and on Fredericksburg Today. [...] The post Kuykendall Will Take Local Audiences ‘to Italy’ appeared first on Read more…

“A Musical Journey to Italy” A Free Choral Concert (Fredericksburg Today)

[...] The post “A Musical Journey to Italy” A Free Choral Concert (Fredericksburg Today) appeared first on EagleEye. Read more…

Kuykendall Returns to New College, Oxford to Speak on Gilbert & Sullivan

Brooks Kuykendall, professor and chair of the Music Department, spoke at the fourth biennial conference The London Stage and the Nineteenth Century World, hosted by New College Oxford (April 6-8, 2022). As at the previous three conferences, he was on a panel of specialists of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas. For 2022, Read more…

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