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Pelkey Co-Edits “Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age”
Roberts Wesleyan College Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Stanley C. Pelkey, Ph.D., recently served as lead editor for his newest book, “Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age.” Published by Oxford University Press, the book is a six-year project that explores how the central social, political and cultural concerns of the 1950s and 1960s, and the resulting treatment in motion picture media, can be examined and understood through the music of the time period.
“Our college faculty is of the highest caliber and we consider ourselves fortunate to have so many on our staff who are outstanding scholars, communicators and professionals, who are recognized by their colleagues and contributors to our society,” said Roberts President Dr. Deana Porterfield. “We are extremely proud of Dr. Pelkey and congratulate him on the release of his latest book.”
In “Anxiety Muted,” Pelkey explores the broader discussion of nostalgia in mid-twentieth century motion picture culture, the role of new technologies in the mediation of film and television since the 1950s, and the importance of gender as a media topic in the “suburban age.”
Pelkey is a renowned musicologist and cultural historian who has written several articles on the topic. He has also published reviews of eight books on film music and has served as a peer reviewer for Oxford University Press and Indiana University Press for book proposals in the area of film and popular music studies.
“Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age” is available for purchase on amazon.com
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Author Information
Stanley C. Pelkey II is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Roberts Wesleyan College. A musicologist and cultural historian, he co-edited Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (2005).
Pelkey completed his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Musicology and his M.A. in History at the University of Rochester. Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, New York), he was previously an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University (2005-2012) where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses on music history and theory, film music, and non-western music.
Co-editor of Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), Pelkey has also published articles on British composers and musical culture in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Catholic Encyclopedia 2011 Supplement, and The Early Keyboard Journal. His work on film and television music has appeared in Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon (Scarecrow Press, 2010) and Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2011).
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