Kevin Mooney, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, musicology) is Director of Graduate Studies in Music. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance (guitar) and a master’s degree in music education from University of Nebraska at Omaha and in 1998 received a doctor of philosophy degree in musicology/ethnomusicology from The University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on music and identity issues related to American nationalism and southern regionalism. In addition to articles and reviews published in Notes, The Journal of Texas Music History, the Bulletin of the Society for American Music, Great Plains Quarterly, The New Mexico Historical Review, and the Handbook of Texas Music, Dr. Mooney authored the Instructor’s Manual for both the Second and Third editions of American Music: A Panorama (New York: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2004 and 2006). He also currently serves on the editorial boards of the South Central Music Bulletin (College Music Society) and The Journal of Texas Music History (Texas State University).
Prior to his arrival at Texas State University (2007), Dr. Mooney has taught a wide range of courses at College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska, Southwest Texas State University, and at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was Associate Chair of the Center for American Music as well as founder and director of the Texas Music Oral History Project. For several years Dr. Mooney has worked in close collaboration with the Center for Texas Music History in the History Department here at Texas State, most recently teaching a “History of the Blues” course (Spring 2007). As a classical and jazz guitarist, Kevin Mooney has performed in concert with Dizzy Gillespie and David Amram, and has more recently recorded several jazz tracks on Novak and Haar—Old Friends (Ware House Productions, Inc.: Omaha, Nebraska, 2005).