Kevin Karnes Assistant Professor, Music History Music Department Emory University 1804 North Decatur Road, Room 331 Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-5038 404-727-0074 FAX kkarnes@emory.edu

Kevin C. Karnes joined the music department at Emory in 2004. His research focuses on the cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe (especially Vienna and the Baltic States), as well as the history of music theory. He is the author of Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna (AMS Studies in Music/Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008) and co-editor, with Walter Frisch, of the revised and expanded edition of Brahms and His World (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2009). He has also co-edited, with Joachim Braun, Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape Since 1991 (Routledge, forthcoming 2009; also to be published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies); and A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe, published in the Ashgate series Music Theory in Britain: 1500-1700 (2005). He is presently writing a new book on the creative discourse of cultural degeneration and regeneration in turn-of-the-century Austria and Germany, entitled Apocalypse and Renewal in Music and the Arts, 1870-1914, and he is continuing his research into the links between music and cultural identity in Baltic Europe and Latvia in particular. Kevin is also a trombonist, whose recent work includes a performance with Stuart Dempster at the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden, Washington; video clips of this performance, with performers underground (see picture) and audience on the surface, can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHFQcQibKj0 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYYvox3cVQ.

Kevin received his PhD in 2001 from Brandeis University, where he studied with Allan Keiler and Jessie Ann Owens and received the American Brahms Society’s Karl Geiringer Scholarship in 2000. He also holds BS degrees in mathematics and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MM degree in trombone performance from the University of Washington in Seattle.