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Mark McKnight, Associate Head of the Music Library | |
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Mark
McKnight is Associate Head of the Music Library at the University of
North Texas, where he coordinates music cataloging activities.
He also teaches courses in the UNT College of Music Division of
Theory, History, and Ethnomusicology, as well as in the School of
Library and Information Science. Prior
to his appointment at UNT he was Music and Audiovisual Catalog Librarian
at Loyola University in New Orleans.
He holds a Ph.D. in Music History from Louisiana State University
and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr.
McKnight is active in the Music Library Association, where he has held a
number of offices and has served as Assistant Editor of Notes: the
Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. He has
written and lectured extensively in his areas of scholarly interest and
research, which include 19th-century American music criticism, early
American sheet music, and the music of Louisiana and New Orleans.
Publications include articles and reviews in Notes, American
Music, Black Music Research Journal, Music Publishing and
Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel. He is also
author of Music Classification
Systems (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002). His current project: The
Music of New Orleans: A History. |