Thomas L. Riis or Thomas Laurence Riis (born October 6, 1950
[As indicated in ''U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1'' on Ancestry.com.]) is an
American
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musicologist and professor. His current position is the Joseph Negler Professor of Musicology and Director of the American Music Research Center at the College of Music, at the
University of Colorado Boulder
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.
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Center of the American West
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He received his
bachelor's degree
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at
Oberlin College and his
master's degree
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doctorate
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from the
University of Michigan
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. He has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder since 1992.
[Jessie Bauters, "Life at the intersection of music and learning," College of Music, University of Colorado Boulder, April 9, 2018.]
/ref> He retired from teaching in 2018.[ In addition to his academic activities, Riis is active as a conductor, choral singer, viola player, and cellist.][
His book ''Just Before Jazz'', devoted to African-American Broadway shows, received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1995.
]
Books
*Just Before Jazz : Black musical theater in New York, 1890-1915 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989)
*More Than Just Minstrel Shows: the Rise of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn of the Century (New York: Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1992)
*Frank Loesser (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
References
External links
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1950 births
Living people
American musicologists
People from Boulder, Colorado
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
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