Marc J. Rice

B.M., Northern Kentucky University; Assoc., Berklee College of Music; M.M., New England Conservatory; Ph.D., University of Kentucky; Post Graduate Study, Columbia University

Marc Rice is an Associate Professor of Musicology at Truman State University and is the area chair of the Perspectives of Music program.  He has extensively published on gender and race issues concerning jazz in the Midwest.  His work can be found in the journals American Music, Musical Quarterly, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African American Music.  He has also conducted fieldwork in Louisiana, tracing the Cajun music revival, and is currently preparing a manuscript on the Nueva Cancion movement in Latin America.  He teaches the Music History sequence for music majors, and courses on jazz history, the music of Louisiana, and music and political protest.