W. Anthony Sheppard
Joined the Williams faculty in 1996
Education:
Ph.D., Music, Princeton University, June 1996
M.F.A., Music, Princeton University, June 1993
B.A. summa cum laude Music, magna cum laude English, Amherst College, May 1991
Courses:
Musics of the Twentieth Century
Popular Music: Revolutions in the History of Rock
Music and Film
Introduction to Japanese Music and Theater
Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
Opera
Verdi and Wagner
Music in Modernism
Senior Seminar: Music and Language
Musics of Asia
Words and Music in the 60s and 70s
American Pop Orientalism
Words and Music by Bob Dylan
Research Interests:
20th- and 21st-century music
Cross-cultural influence and Orientalism
20th-century opera and music theater
Film music analysis
American music history
Vocal Timbre
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater (University of California Press, 2001)
"Tan Dun and Zhang Yimou Between Film and Opera," Journal of Musicological Research 29, 1 (January 2010)
"Exoticism in Opera," forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Opera, ed. Helen Greenwald
"Global Exoticism and Modernity," forthcoming in the Cambridge History of World Music, ed. Philip Bohlman
"Blurring the Boundaries: Tan Dun's tinte and The First Emperor," Journal of Musicology 26, 3 (Summer 2009)
"Continuity in Composing the American Cross-Cultural: Eichheim, Cowell, and Japan," Journal of the American Musicological Society 61, 3 (Fall 2008)
"Cinematic Realism, Reflexivity and the American 'Madame Butterfly' Narratives," Cambridge Opera Journal 17, 1 (2005)
"Representing the Authentic: Tak Shindo's 'Exotic Sound' and Japanese American History," ECHO 6, 2 (2005) http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume6-Issue2/sheppard/sheppard1.html
"An Exotic Enemy: Anti-Japanese Musical Propaganda in World War II Hollywood," Journal of the American Musicological Society 54, 2 (Summer 2001)
"Bitter Rituals for a Lost Nation: Partch's Revelation in the Courthouse Park and Bernstein's Mass," The Musical Quarterly 80, 3 (Fall 1996)
Major Grants and Awards:
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, 2011
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007-2008
ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2006
Kurt Weill Book Prize (biennial), Modern Language Association, American Musicological Society, American Society for Theatre Research, and Kurt Weill Foundation, 2003
NEH Fellowship recipient, 2003-2004
Alfred Einstein Award, American Musicological Society, 2002
NEH Summer Stipend recipient, 2002
Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1991
