Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis
Phone: 706-867-2218
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Office: Nix, 203, Dahlonega
Areas of Expertise: Music in Silent-Era Film Exhibition, Community Singing, Music in WWI, Tin Pan Alley, Appalachian Music
Overview
Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis is the author of Everybody Sing!: Community Singing in the American Picture Palace (2018). Her work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, and she has presented papers and lecture-recitals at national conferences.
Dr. Morgan-Ellis currently serves as Managing Editor for the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
Dr. Morgan-Ellis is also a professional cellist and appears regularly with regional orchestras. At UNG she teaches music history, world music, music in Appalachia, and cello, and she directs the orchestra in Dahlonega.
Education
- Ph.D., Music History, Yale University, 2013
- M.Phil., M.A., Music History, Yale University, 2009
- B.M., Instrumental Performance, University of Puget Sound, 2006
Publications
Everybody Sing!: Community Singing in the American Picture Palace. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Forthcoming: “'Making the many-minded one': Community Singing at the Peabody Prep in 1915." Musical Quarterly.
"Learning Habits and Attitudes in the Revivalist Old-Time Community of Practice." Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Number 221. 2019. Pages 29-57.
"A Faculty Learning Community for Contingent Music Appreciation Instructors: Purpose, Structure, Outcomes." Journal of Music History Pedagogy. Volume 9, Number 2. 2019. Pages 173-193.
"Undergraduate Research and Affective Learning: Examining a Contemporary Music Research Project." Journal of Music History Pedagogy. Volume 8, Number 2. 2018. Pages 174-187.
"Warren Kimsey and Community Singing at Camp Gordon, 1917-1918." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. Volume 39, Number 2. 2018. Pages 171-194.
"Edward Meikel and Community Singing in a Neighborhood Picture Palace, 1925–1929." American Music. Volume 32, Number 2. 2014. Pages 172-200.