E-mail: dcavicch@risd.edu

Daniel Cavicchi is an Americanist, with training in ethnomusicology, anthropology, history, and literature, and scholarly interests in popular culture and audience studies. Winner of both Brown University's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and RISD’s Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching, he has developed numerous courses in history, film, and music at RISD and designed secondary education curricula for Experience Music Project, the Grammy Foundation, and PBS. His books include Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans (Oxford University Press, 1998) and My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life (Wesleyan University Press, 1993; 2nd edition 2002). He is currently writing a book titled Listening and Longing, on the origins of music consumption in the U.S., and curating an exhibit called “Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom” for the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.