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Jonas Westover
Jonas Westover is a recent graduate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he received his Ph.D. in musicology. His research topics cover musical theatre, film musicals, film music and videogame music, but also include Lawrence Welk and the Backstreet Boys. He contributed over 400 entries to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (second edition). Recent book chapters include ‘Beethoven and Beer: Orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth century New York City’ in The Nineteenth-Century American Orchestra (University of Chicago Press, 2012, with John Koegel) and ‘“Be A Clown” and “Make ‘Em Laugh”: Comic timing, rhythm, and Donald O’Connor’s face’ in Sounding Funny: Music, Sound, and Comedy Cinema (Equinox, forthcoming).