E-mail: dcavicch@risd.edu

Daniel Cavicchi is Associate Professor of American Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. He is author of Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming), Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans (Oxford U. Pr., 1998, runner-up for the 1999 Woody Guthrie Book Award), and My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life (Wesleyan University Press, 1993). His public work has included the curriculum accompanying Martin Scorcese’s The Blues film series; Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom, the first major museum exhibit on the history of music and politics in the U.S.; and other projects with the Public Broadcasting System and the National Park Service. A longtime member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, he served in 2010 as the U.S. Branch’s Program Chair. He is currently the Series Editor of Music/Interview, a new book series from Wesleyan University Press that features scholars creatively anthologizing interviews with provocative figures in music. In addition to several research grants and awards, he is the recipient of both the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from Brown University and the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching from Rhode Island School of Design.