CURRICULUM VITAE

Barry Kernfeld

506 West Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801-4039

814-238-0497 (home); 814-867-4288 (office for jazz projects); bdk4@psu.edu;

 http://www.personal.psu.edu/bdk4

staff archivist, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections, University Library,

the Pennsylvania State University, 104 Paterno, University Park, PA 16804-0108

814-865-1793

                            EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, 1968–1970

University of California, Davis, 1972–1975, BA, music (1975)

Cornell University, 1975–1981, MA, musicology (1978), Ph.d., musicology (1981)

                            HONORS

Regents’ Scholar, University of California, 1968–1970, 1972–1974

Phi Beta Kappa, 1975

Grant-in-Aid, Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund-for-Music, 1980–1981

Richard S. Hill award, Music Library Association, best article of a music-bibliographic nature, 1995

“Outstanding Academic Titles, 2002”: Humanities: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Choice 40 (Jan. 2003): 752

Contemporary Authors Online, 2005

Who’s Who in America, 2006 (59th edition)

                            PUBLICATIONS

            BOOKS

author, The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006)

editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1988); unabridged reprint

 in 1 vol. (London: Macmillan Press Limited, and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994); revised and expanded

second edition, 3 vols. (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2001; subsequently acquired by Oxford University

Press); electronic edition at www.grovemusic.com (2003)

author, What to Listen for in Jazz (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995)

editor, The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1991); updated

paperback edition (1992), translated as Die Enzyklopadie des Jazz: Die Geschichte des Jazz im Spiegel

der wichtigsten Augnahmen (Bern, Vienna, and Munich: Scherz, 1993); revised and expanded second

edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995)

            SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

co-author, with Howard Rye, “Comprehensive Discographies of Jazz, Blues, and Gospel (Part One),”

 Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 51 (Dec. 1994): 501–547;

“Comprehensive Discographies . . . (Part Two),” 51 (March 1995): 865–891

“Two Coltranes,” Annual Review of Jazz Studies, 2 (1983): 7–66

John Coltrane in Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio (Part One),” Names & Numbers, no.33 (April 2005): 2–7;

“. . . (Part Two), no.34 (July 2005): 3–9, errata 14–15

            CONTRIBUTIONS TO REFERENCE WORKS

158 articles on jazz and blues musicians in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark

C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); 8 further articles for the 2005 supplement.

“Jazz” and “Blues” in Collier’s Encyclopedia (New York: P. F. Collier, 1997 edition)

350 jazz and blues biographies in The New Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, ed. Don M.

Randel (Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press, 1996)

“Jazz” in The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson (New Haven, CT: Yale

University Press, 1995)

65 entries, mainly on jazz, in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock

and Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1986)

100 entries on 20th-century African-American musical terms, genres, and styles in The New Harvard

Dictionary of Music, ed. Don M. Randel (Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press, 1986)

            POPULAR PRESS

“Pop Song Piracy: Napster in the 1930s and the Story of Fake Books,” Stay Free (June 2004): 32–34;

electronic version at <www.stayfreemagazine.org>

“In the Mode: Modal Jazz and its Influences,” Jazz Changes 6 (Spring 1999): 23–25

                            PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

            CONFERENCES

Invited speaker, Copyright and the Networked Computer, Washington, DC, 2003

            “Pop Song Piracy, Fake Books, and a Pre-History of Sampling”

Invited speaker, Music Library Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter, University Park, PA, 2003

            “Napster in the 1930s: Bootlegging Song Sheets”

Keynote speaker, fifth Jyväskylä Summer Jazz Conference, Finland, 2003

“Pop Song Piracy: A History of Fake Books and America’s First Criminal Copyright Trials”;

“The Making of The Real Book”

Invited speaker, Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, England, 2001

            “The ‘Right’ Changes: From the Tune-Dex to The Real Book”

Keynote speaker, Prague International Jazz Conference, Czech Republic, 2000

            “Jazz Research Through the Eyes of Grove”

Keynote speaker, first Jyväskylä Summer Jazz Conference, Finland, 1999

            “The ‘Right’ Changes: How Fake Books Have Altered Jazz”

            LECTURES

annual Music Lecture Series, Cornell University, 2000

            “The ‘Right’ Changes: How Fake Books Have Altered Jazz”

annual Music Lecture Series, SUNY Buffalo, 1992

            “What to Listen for in Billie Holiday’s ‘God Bless the Child’”

Faculty of Music lecture, University of Toronto, 1992

            “What to Listen for in Charles Mingus’s ‘Fables of Faubus’”

            INTERVIEWS

for What to Listen for in Jazz and the history of fake books:

“Be-Bop to Hip-Hop,” BBC Radio Scotland, broadcast March 17, 2004

for The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition:

            Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Dec. 23, 2001)

Jaroslav Pasmik: “Re kreace ve stádiu” [Relaxing on Stage], Harmonie [Prague] (Sept. 1999), 32–33

for The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, first edition, Oct.–Dec. 1988:

            London: “Round Midnight” and “Sounds of Jazz,” BBC Radio 2; “Today,” BBC Radio 4;

                   “Music Now,” BBC World Service; The Independent; Jazz Express

            New York: Associated Press (for syndication); “Crossroads,” NPR; “Today Show,” NBC;

                    WKCR; WNEW

            Paris: Jazz hot; Jazz magazine

            San Francisco Bay Area: “Morning Edition,” NPR; KJAZ; San Francisco Examiner

OTHER

Editor and transcriber, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program, 2005–

Historical consultant and cataloguer, Guernsey’s jazz auction, Lincoln Center, Feb. 20, 2005

            estates of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, etc.

Clarinetist, State College Community Theater, summers 2004–2005

Jazz disc jockey, WKPS, 90.7FM, State College, PA, 2002–2003

Jury member, International Bird Award, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, 1997–2000

Saxophonist, Ithaca, NY, and State College, PA, 1980–84, 1994–; co-leader, with vibraphonist Brian

            Tuttle, of Jazza-ma-phone, 1998–