Pheaross Graham

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Music, Stanford University

Pheaross Graham is a musicologist and concert pianist with expertise in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western art and African American music. He holds degrees from UCLA (PhD, C.Phil, and MA in musicology), UC Irvine (MFA in piano performance), and UC Berkeley (BA in music and BS in microbial biology.) Broadly speaking, his research offers new approaches to performance analysis. He works at the seams of theory and praxis, interrogating the inner worlds of marginalized concert performers by querying their aesthetic strategies for countering social, racial, ethnic, and class-based erasure within “high art-” leaning performance. 

SHC Project

I Am Not an Entertainer: Don Shirley, Green Book Pianism, and the Middlebrow Problem

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