Colin Roust

In this episode, I chat with Professor Colin Roust. Professor Roust is a musicologist and professor at the University of Kansas whose research focuses on twentieth-century music, film music, band music, and the intersections of music, politics, and other arts such as film, opera, and ballet. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has been a leading advocate for music history pedagogy, serving as Chair of the AMS Pedagogy Study Group and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy and Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy. He is the author of Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics and co-editor of The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook, and he has presented his work at major national and international conferences. His current projects include critical editions of Early Music of Francis Johnson from the Phoebe Rush Manuscript and The Diary of Thomas Clarke Key, 357th Infantry Regiment Band, American Expeditionary Force.