James W. McCalla

Associate Professor of Music

Spring 2008

  • Topics in Jazz History: Louis, Dizzy, and Miles (AFRS 210)
  • Tonal Analysis (MUS 203)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Music (MUS 291)
  • Senior Project in Music (MUS 451)
Phone (207) 725-3318
Title Associate Professor
Department MUSIC
Work Location 207 Gibson Hall
E-Mail jmccalla@bowdoin.edu

Associate Professor

 Spring 2007
  • INTERMEDIATE INDEPENDENT STUDY (AFRS 291)
  • Passions and Damnation (MUS 126)
  • INTERMEDIATE INDEPENDENT STUDY (MUS 292)
  • Topics in Music History: Béla Bartók
    (MUS 351)
Phone
Title
Department
Work Location
Email
 (207) 725-3318
Associate Professor
MUSIC
207 Gibson Hall
jmccalla@bowdoin.edu

B.A., B.M. Kansas
M.M. New England Conservatory
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

James McCalla holds the B.A. (French) and B.M. (piano performance) from the University of Kansas, the M.M. (music history and literature) from the New England Conservatory, and the Ph.D. (music) from the University of California at Berkeley. His areas of specialization include interdisciplinary studies, 20th century American and French music, jazz history, and opera. He teaches courses in all these areas.

McCalla's books are Jazz: A Listener's Guide (Prentice Hall, 3rd edition 2000) and 20th-Century Chamber Music (2nd edition, Routledge, 2003). He has published articles in national journals and given papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and a major conference on "Time, Space and Music Since 1945" at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also performs in chamber music and as a duo-pianist.

At the community level, McCalla has served as a Humanities Scholar for the Portland (ME) Stage Company and has delivered lectures and served as competition judge for the Bay Chamber Concert Society.