American essayist, editor, musicologist, and concert annotator
Jack Sullivan (born November 26, 1946) is an American literary scholar, professor, essayist, author, editor, musicologist, concert annotator, and short story writer. He is a scholar of the horrorgenre, Alfred Hitchcock, and the impact of American culture on European music.
Biography
Born November 26, 1946, Jack Sullivan obtained a B.A. from Furman University, and his M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D., from Columbia University, where he studied under Jacques Barzun.[1] A former English professor at NYU and Columbia, Sullivan is currently serving as the Chair of the English Department at Rider University, in Lawerenceville, New Jersey.[2]
New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN0-300-07231-7 analyzes the influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. It covers the impact of spirituals, jazz, Broadway, Hollywood, American landscape, and authors such as Poe and Whitman.
"New Orleans Remix", University Press of Mississippi, 2017, examines a vibrant musical renaissance that has been rocking the Big Easy since the early 1990s and shows how the city has held fiercely to the old even as it invents the new, a secret of its dynamic success. Based on dozens of interview and archives, the book shines the light on superb artists little known to the genera public -- Aurora Nealand, Shamarr Allen, Tom McDermott, Kermit Ruffins -- as well as artists who have broken into the national spotlight such as the Rebirth Brass Band and Jon Batiste. Covering genres ranging from opera and jazz to brass band and funk, it was awarded a Certificate of Merit by ARSC, the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.
Sullivan's 2013 script for "New York Philharmonic's Hitchcock!", a presentation of Hitchcock's film music at Lincoln Center, was narrated by Alec Baldwin and Sam Waterston.[6]
^Williams, B., "A Complete Guide for all lovers of horror" (Review of The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural). The Courier-Mail, January 31, 1987.