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that "Mr. Hamm was one of the first scholars to study the history of American popular music with musicological rigor and sensitivity to complex racial and ethnic dynamics, and both oral and written traditions. He traced pop’s history not just to its full recent flowering in the 1950s or to the 19th
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This article is about the American musicologist. For the American Air Force officer, see
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Collection guide to Charles Hamm Recordings, University of Pittsburgh
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In 2002 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the
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Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Hamm graduated from the
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music
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Charles R. Hamm
Charlottesville, Virginia
Lebanon, New Hampshire
University of Virginia
musicologist
composer
popular music
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
University of Virginia
Virginia Glee Club
Zachary Woolfe
The New York Times
Stephen Foster
Society for American Music
pneumonia


Zachary Woolfe
"Charles Hamm, Author on American Popular Music, Dies at 86"
The New York Times
"In Memoriam"
"Charles Hamm Recordings"
The Charles E. Hamm Collection
Categories
1925 births
2011 deaths
University of Virginia alumni
20th-century American musicologists
21st-century American musicologists
People from Charlottesville, Virginia

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