Profile profile for TroutmanJ
Ph.D., History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
M.A., American Indian Studies, The University of Arizona, 1997
B.A., Anthropology, Emory University, 1995
Research Specialties:
History of American Music, U.S. Popular Culture, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Projects:
2020 Entertaining America, National Museum of American History
2017 Sounding American Music, National Museum of American History
Awards, Honors, and Special Recognition:
- 2017 Lawrence W. Levine Award for Best Book in American Cultural History, for Kīkā Kila, Organization of American Historians
- 2017 Woody Guthrie Award for the Most Outstanding Book on Popular Music, for Kīkā Kila, IASPM-US.
- 2017 Award for Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music, for Kīkā Kila, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
- 2017 Music in American Culture Award, for Kīkā Kila, American Musicological Society
- 2017 Sally and Ken Owens Award for Best Book on the History of the Pacific West, for Kīkā Kila, Western History Association
- 2011 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for a First Book on Any Aspect of the American West, for Indian Blues, Western History Association
Professional Affiliations:
- American Historical Association
- National Council on Public History
- Organization of American Historians
- American Alliance of Museums
- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Blog Posts
Remembering Woodstock
August 16, 2019
Musician José Feliciano shook up a baseball tradition at age 23
October 9, 2018
Publications
Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
