David A. Brock joined the faculty at University of La Verne in 1999. He holds a Ph.D. degree in musicology from the Claremont Graduate University. His area of specialty is American and popular musics. His research in American folk hymnody earned him a dissertation grant from the Claremont Graduate University and the nomination for a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He was also selected as a Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Claremont Graduate University. He holds a Master's degree in music education with an emphasis in Kod‡ly methodology, and holds a California Single Subject Teaching Credential in music.

Mr. Brock has been active in professional music for over twenty-five years. Since the age of seventeen, he has been active as a performing and studio session musician on guitar, five-string banjo and fiddle. He has been an arranger for rock artist, Iggy Pop (Arista Records) and has recorded with Neil Young. He has been a performer with the New Christy Minstrels, Calcanto Singers, and Music Americana. Recently, he was consulted as a legal music analyst in a pending plagiarism litigation against a major rock group.

He has composed music for several television radio sequences. He has also served as musical director for Pomona College on "Guys & Dolls," "Golddust," and "Jesse and the Bandit Queen." He will be working on a new production in the fall of 2001.

An accomplished bluegrass musician, Mr. Brock co-authored an advanced banjo instruction book in 1989, which was distributed in the U.S. and Canada. He has seven commissioned entries in the encyclopedia Music in the 20th Century (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., NY, 1999). He recently published an article in the journal 21st Century Music on Kurt Weill's writing for the tenor banjo. During the past four years, he has presented scholarly papers in American music for the College Music Society. From 1989 to 2000 he contributed over sixty articles to the British Columbia-based publication, Bluegrass Canada Magazine in a bi-monthly column titled, "Delvings With David Brock." He has taught Fundamentals of Music, Music Theory I, and ear-training at Scripps College, he has taught American Music, Survey of Western Music, and Music in the Elementary School at University of La Verne. He is also Director of String Orchestras at Baldwin Park Unified School District.

David's Paper "Kissin' Cousins": The Shared Lineage of
String-Band Music and Western Swing
will be presented at the CMS Annual meeting in
Santa Fe New Mexico on November 15-18, 2001

Email: brockd@ulv.edu