Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance, as well as a faculty associate of the university's American Culture Program. He has served as review editor and assistant editor of American Music, the journal of the Society for American Music. His book Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, which was awarded the Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award by the Society for American Music, was published by University of California Press in 2008. He is co-editor of Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries (University of California Press) and author of numerous articles, including "Shooting the Keys: Musical Horseplay and High Culture" in The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, ed. Jane F. Fulcher (Oxford University Press).

Project editor: Mark Clague, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance

Senior Editorial Board:
E. Douglas Bomberger, Elizabethtown College
Carolyn Bryant, Independent Scholar
Mark Clague, University of Michigan
Kevin Fellezs, University of California, Merced
Daniel Goldmark, Case Western Reserve University
Jere Humphreys, Arizona State University
Tammy L. Kernodle, Miami University
Beth E. Levy, University of California, Davis
Alejandro L. Madrid, University of Illinois at Chicago
Travis D. Stimeling, TK
Jacqueline Warwick, Dalhousie University

24 Contributing Editors

1 Assistant Contributing Editor

An advisory board of 34 scholars, including:
Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago and member of the Grove Music Editorial Board
Portia K. Maultsby, Indiana University
Carol J. Oja, Harvard University
Deane Root, University of Pittsburgh and Editor in Chief of Grove Music
Timothy D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Tick, Northeastern University

2013 Prose Award for Best Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Best Reference 2013, Library Journal
Best Reference 2014, Library Journal

"[A] marvelous combination of editing and erudition, so splendidly produced and such a pleasure to use, may be one of the last of its kind." --Stephen Brown, The Times Literary Supplement

"Essential for research institutions with a music program." --Library Journal, 'Best Reference 2013'

"...represents the ongoing commitment of a massive community to telling the stories of American music with clarity, precision, and depth and demonstrates the continuing strength of our field." --American Music Review

"[W]e were deeply impressed both by the quality and ambition of the eight-volume, 5.4 million-word encyclopedia and by the 'gargantuan' task...with which the reviewers had been charged...Few reviewers could resist praising AmeriGrove II's scope or remarking upon its size...AmeriGrove II (and I) is a capacious, engaging, impossible text that rewards many sorts of reading--whether by human or machine, online or paper."--Journal of the Society for American Music