CSLA Department of Music Dr. JoAn Kunselman Faculty: Musicology

Dr. Kunselman holds the PhD. degree in Music History and Literature from Louisiana State University, the M.M. degree in Musicology from the University of Maryland, the M.L.S. in Library Science from Louisiana State University, and the A.B. with a music major and pre-med minor from Vassar College. At CSLA she teaches Musicology and Research Techniques courses in music. Prior to her position in the Department of Music, Dr. Kunselman was the University Librarian at JFK Memorial Library.

Noteworthy publications include:

• Heinrich Schenker, Oswald Jonas, Moriz Violin: A Checklist of Manuscripts and Other Papers in the Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection. With Robert Lang. Berkely: University of California Press, 1994.
• "Getting Our Act Together: The Performing Arts Libraries Network of Greater Los Angeles." Resource Sharing and Information Networks VI/2 (1991), 35-45.
• "Toward Describing and Assessing the National Music Collection." With Peggy Daub and Marion Taylor. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association XLIII/1 (September 1986), 7-13.
• "Current Bibliography, July 1981-1984 (Arnold Schoenberg)." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute IX/1 (June 1986), 86-113.
• "A New American Development in Music: Some Characteristic Features Extending from the Legacy of Charles Ives." Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1976. (PhD. dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1976). Published under the name Joan Kunselman Cordes.
• "Giacomo Antonio Perti and his Opera Nerone fatto Cesare." M.M. thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 1974. 237 pp.

In addition to her teaching and librarian career, Dr. Kunselman has been active in other professional activities. These include:

• Grants Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, 1990-96.
• HEA Title II-C, Panel II, Strengthening Research Library Resource Program, Washington, D.C. 1986-94.
• Reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education, HEA Title II-B Library Career Training Program FY 1991 Fellowships, 1990-91.
• Committee on Fine Arts Productions and Public Lectures, UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, 1986-90.

Along the way she has accumulated these awards:

• Pi Kappa Lambda: Music Honor Society
• Beta Phi Mu: Library Science Honor Society

Dr. Kunselman is a member of the following associations:

• Society for Ethnomusicology
• American Musicological Society
• College Music Society
• American Orff-Schulwerk Association
• International Association of Jazz Educators
• Music Library Association

Office: FA 218A

Phone: 323.343.4082

Email: jkunsel@calstatela.edu

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