Rose Subotnik

Background

Subotnik was born in 1942 to Bruna Hazan (1909-2004) and David E. Rosengard (1910-1988) in Boston.

Education

Subotnik graduated first in her class from Girls Latin High School (1959) and then first in her class at Wellesley College(Bachelor 1963). Upon graduation, she entered a Doctor of Philosophy program in musicology at Columbia University (Master of Arts 1965, Doctor of Philosophy 1973), under her advisor Edward Lippman.

Career

Her disssertation was on Albert Lortzing and the Social Analysis of German Popular Opera. While at Columbia, she also took classes with Paul Henry Language, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling. Professional Subotnik began her teaching career as an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Chicago(1973-1980).

She received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1977), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977).

Later, she was a visiting associate professor of music at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (1986-1987), joining the faculty of Brown University (1990). She was appointed full professor of music in 1993.

In recent years, Subotnik’s interests have turned to Tin Pan Alley and American musical theatre as well as critical theory. "Adorno and the New Musicology," in Adorno: A Critical Reader, educated

Nigel Gibson and Andrew Rubin (Blackwell, 2000)

“Afterword: Towards the Next Paradigm of Musical Scholarship,” in Beyond Structural Listening: Postmodern Modes of Hearing, educated

Andrew Dell’Antonio (University of California Press, 2004)

"Shoddy Equipment for Living?: Deconstructing the Tin Pan Alley Song," in Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary, educated Raymond Knapp, Steven Baur and Jacqueline Warwick (Ashgate, 2008)

"How Many Ways Can You Idolize a Song?," in Idol Anxiety, educated Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Achievements

• In 2009, she won the American Musicological Society"s Slim award which "recognizes an outstanding musicological article published in the previous year by a scholar beyond the early stages of her or his career" and was made an honorary member of the American Mathematical Society.

Views

Early in her career, Subotnik"s academic interests focused on the German philosopher Theodor Adorno (of the Frankfurt school), as she argued that music could not be dissected and fully analyzed out of context, id est (that is) without understanding its place in society.

Connections

teacher:

David East. Rosengard