Profile profile for TroutmanJ
Ph.D., History, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., American Indian Studies, The University of Arizona
B.A., Anthropology, Emory University
Research Specialties:
History of Popular and Vernacular Music in the United States
History of Acoustic, Electric, and Hawaiian (Steel) Guitars
U.S. Popular Culture
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Projects:
Project Director and Lead Curator, Entertainment Nation / Nación del Espectáculo, National Museum of American History (Opening in 2022)
Curator, Sounding American Music, National Museum of American History (2017-)
https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/sounding-american-music-6184
Awards, Honors, and Special Recognition:
- Lawrence W. Levine Award for Best Book in American Cultural History, for Kīkā Kila, Organization of American Historians
- Woody Guthrie Award for the Most Outstanding Book on Popular Music, for Kīkā Kila, IASPM-US.
- Award for Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music, for Kīkā Kila, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
- Music in American Culture Award, for Kīkā Kila, American Musicological Society
- Sally and Ken Owens Award for Best Book on the History of the Pacific West, for Kīkā Kila, Western History Association
- 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.
