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about the author: mariana whitmer
Author, scholar, and Executive Director of the Society for American Music
Mariana Whitmer is Executive Director of the Society for American Music and directs special projects at the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also teaches a course on music and film. She has contributed essays to Music in the Western (edited by K. Kalinak, Routledge, 2010) and Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a
Suburban Age (edited by Stanley Pelkey and Anthony Bushard, Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Whitmer recently completed Film Score Guide on The Big Country (Scarecrow Press, 2012), and is currently working on a monograph about the classic Hollywood Western. In addition to continued work on a comprehensive biography on Jerome Moross, she is currently finishing a research article tentatively titled “Jerome Moross’s Ballet Ballads" and the "Creation of a ‘Free Dramatic Dynamism.’”
Mariana Whitmer is Executive Director of the Society for American Music and directs special projects at the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also teaches a course on music and film. She has contributed essays to Music in the Western (edited by K. Kalinak, Routledge, 2010) and Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a
Suburban Age (edited by Stanley Pelkey and Anthony Bushard, Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Whitmer recently completed Film Score Guide on The Big Country (Scarecrow Press, 2012), and is currently working on a monograph about the classic Hollywood Western. In addition to continued work on a comprehensive biography on Jerome Moross, she is currently finishing a research article tentatively titled “Jerome Moross’s Ballet Ballads" and the "Creation of a ‘Free Dramatic Dynamism.’”