W.Anthony Sheppard

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
Music in Modernism
Senior Seminar: Music and Language
Musics of Asia
Words and Music in the 60s and 70s
American Pop Orientalism

Research Interests:
20th and 21st-century music
Crosscultural influence and Orientalism
20thcentury opera and music theater
Film music analysis
American music history

Major Publications:
            Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination, expected completion in late 2008
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater (University of California Press, 2001)
"Global Exoticism and Modernity," forthcoming in the Cambridge History of World Music
"Cinematic Realism, Reflexivity and the American 'Madame Butterfly' Narratives," Cambridge Opera Journal 17, 1 (2005): 59-93
"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): 303-57
"Bitter Rituals for a Lost Nation: Partch's Revelation in the Courthouse Park and Bernstein's Mass," The Musical Quarterly 80, 3 (Fall 1996): 461-99

Major Grants and Awards:
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