John Howland is an Assistant Professor of Music History at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2009). He co-founded Jazz Perspectives with Lewis Porter in 2005. He specializes in the study of arranging traditions across popular music, big band jazz, and jazz-related orchestral idioms in dance bands, musical theater, and the media of film and radio, and his research concerns the connections among popular culture, jazz, race, and cultural hierarchies. He is also a co-editor for a forthcoming Ellington Studies anthology (Cambridge University Press), and his articles and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in American Music, The Musical Quarterly, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, as well as several essay collections.

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