Biography

Jack Blaszkiewicz is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century French music, criticism, and aesthetics. His research and teaching interests include opera and operetta, street music, urban history, theories of listening, sight-reading, and historical sound studies.

Dr. Blaszkiewicz is the author of Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris (University of California Press, 2023). The book uncovers the foundational role that urbanization played in shaping the city’s musical life between the years 1850 and 1870. His scholarly articles appear in the journals 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology, and the Journal of Musicology. His 2022 article, “Verdi, Auber and the Aida-Type,” won an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Dr. Blaszkiewicz has been the recipient of numerous grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Fellowship, and the M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet award from the American Musicological Society.

At Wayne State, Dr. Blaszkiewicz teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music history. Recent graduate seminar offerings include “Sound and the City,” “Paris: Music Capital of Modernity,” and “Music and Enlightenment Aesthetics.” In his undergraduate classes, students discuss a range of issues that bring history into contact with current issues, such as gatekeeping in classical music, labor issues, technology, and pedagogy. His work with non-majors earned him a General Education Teaching Award in 2023.

Dr. Blaszkiewicz holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Eastman School of Music. Before joining the music history faculty at Wayne State, he taught at Williams College, Eastman, and Stony Brook University.

 

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Courses taught by Dr. Jack Blaszkiewicz

Winter Term 2025 (future)

• MUH1350 - History of American Popular Music
• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH3320 - Music History and Literature II

Fall Term 2024

• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH6315 - Seminar in Music History
• MUH7315 - Seminar in Music History

Fall Term 2023

• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH6315 - Seminar in Music History
• MUH7315 - Seminar in Music History

Winter Term 2023

• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH3320 - Music History and Literature II
• MUH6315 - Seminar in Music History
• MUH7315 - Seminar in Music History

Fall Term 2022

• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH6315 - Seminar in Music History
• MUH7315 - Seminar in Music History

Winter Term 2022

• MUH1370 - Music Appreciation: Beginnings to the Present
• MUH3320 - Music History and Literature II
• MUH7340 - Studies in Classical Music

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