Musicologist specializing in American Music
Jake Cohen is a musicologist specializing in American classical music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as American rock music from the 1960s–present. He earned his PhD in musicology from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2017 with a dissertation titled "Constructions of New England Identity and Place in American Music, 1885–1935." Jake has taught music history and music appreciation at Queens College, Rutgers University-Newark, Lehman College, Baruch College, and the University of Washington. Explore the site to learn more about his work and career.
Ives, Copland, Ruggles, Chadwick, MacDowell, Crawford Seeger
Grateful Dead, Phish, Talking Heads, jam bands, and other psychedelic rock bands from the 1960s-70s
New England regional soundscapes and identity, the music of John Luther Adams, environmental activism
