Charles S. Freeman joined the KU faculty Assistant Professor of Musicology in August 2007, having previously taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Texas Tech University, and Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1999, with a dissertation on operas by George W. Chadwick and Frederick Converse.
Prof. Freeman's research interests focus primarily on the music and musical life of the late nineteenth-century United States, including the members of the Second New England School as well as other composers and musicians of the period. His publications include an essay on Chadwick and Converse for the collection Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), as well as articles and reviews for the Journal of Musicological Research, Opera Journal, and the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Current projects include an issue of the journal Nineteenth Century Music Review on American music, and a study of the impact of World War I on American composers and concert life.
In 2007 Prof. Freeman was invited to present a lecture at Miami University (Ohio) on the life and music of Edgar Stillman Kelley, as part of that school's celebration of the composer's 150th anniversary. He has also presented his research at many conferences in the United States and England, including the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, the International Conference on Romanticism, the Society for American Music, the College Music Society, the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, and regional meetings of the College Music Society and American Musicological Society.
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