Tammy L. Kernodle
Tammy L. Kernodle is a musicologist and the former President of the Society for American Music (2019–21).[1][2] Her academic writing and public intellectual work has highlighted Black women musicians like Mary Lou Williams, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alice Coltrane, and Melba Liston and has considered African American women's role in contemporary gospel music and jazz.[3][4][5][6][7]
Education
Kernodle holds a BM in choral music education and piano from Virginia State University, and an MA and PhD in music history from Ohio State University.[8]
Career
Kernodle has been professor of musicology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio since 1997.[2][8] In 2018 she was awarded the Benjamin Harrison Medallion in recognition of "Outstanding Contribution to the Education of the Nation,"[9] and in 2021 she was awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor. Kernodle served as the President of the Society for American Music from 2019 to 2021.[1] In 2021 she was With Lisa Barg, Dianthe Spencer, and Sherrie Tucker, Kernodle formed the Melba Liston Research Collective whose members work toward "the inclusion of women musicians and analyses of gender in the emerging jazz historiographical directions of 'new' jazz studies".[10]
Her book, Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, has been reviewed by Sherrie Tucker for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture,[7] Chris J. Walker for JazzTimes,[11] and Edward M. Komara for the Music Library Association's quarterly Notes.[12]
Kernodle has contributed to NPR's "Turning the Tables" series (2019)[5][13] and to the Walker Art Center's digital exhibit "Creative Black Music".[14] She has appeared in several documentaries about the history of jazz, including The Girls in the Band (2011),[15] Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015),[16] and Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019).[17]
She has been quoted or interviewed as an expert for The New York Times,[18] NPR's All Things Considered,[19][20] and Marketplace.[21]
Selected works
Books
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2020) [2004]. Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. OCLC 1142759993.
Articles
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2006). “Work the Works: The Role of African American Women in the Development of Contemporary Gospel”. Black Music Research Journal, 26 (1): 89–109.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2013). "Diggin' You Like Those Ol' Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Postsoul America". American Studies. 52 (4):181–204. doi:10.1353/ams.2013.0109 ISSN 2153-6856.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014). "Black Women Working Together: Jazz, Gender, and the Politics of Validation". Black Music Research Journal. 34 (1): 27–55. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.34.1.0027.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2020). “Beyond the Chord, the Club, and the Critics: A Historical and Musicological Perspective of the Jazz Avant-Garde,” in Creative Black Music at the Walker: Selections from the Archives, ed. Danielle A. Jackson and Simone Austin, Vol. IV of the Living Collections Catalogue (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center).
- Contributions to Grove Dictionary of American Music:[22]
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2012-10-04). "American Spiritual Ensemble, the". Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2227070.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2015-09-22). "Black Arts Movement". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2283957.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2012-10-04). "Civil Rights Movement". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2228003.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014-09-03). "Fountain, Clarence". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2266885.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2013-10-16). "Gospel blues". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2249651.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2013-02-11). "International Sweethearts of Rhythm". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2235311.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2013-07-25). "Lucas, Nick". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2242205.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014-01-31). "Odetta". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2257735.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014-09-03), "Rivers, Father Clarence (Rufus) Joseph". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2267562.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014-01-31). "Williams, Mary Lou". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2259377.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2014-01-31). "Winans Family, the". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2259409.
Edited books
- Encyclopedia Of African American Music. (2011). Edited by Emmett George Price, Tammy L. Kernodle, and Horace Joseph Maxile. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. OCLC 699474764.
References
- "Board of Trustees". Society for American Music. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- "Kernodle elected President of the Society for American Music". Miami University. 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2020) [2004]. Soul On Soul: The Life of Mary Lou Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-08553-6. OCLC 1142759993.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2013). "Diggin' You Like Those Ol' Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Postsoul America". American Studies. 52 (4): 181–204. doi:10.1353/ams.2013.0109. ISSN 2153-6856. S2CID 143927603.
- "Q&A with visiting guest Dr. Tammy Kernodle". McGill Schulich School of Music. 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- Contreras, Ayana (2020-12-07). "Mary Lou Williams, Writ Large". DownBeat. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- Tucker, Sherrie (2007). "Reviews: 'Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams,' by Tammy L. Kernodle". Women & Music. 11: 95–100. doi:10.1353/wam.2007.0022. S2CID 191459824. ProQuest 1542731 – via ProQuest.
I fully expected that Tammy Kernodle's Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams would extend my knowledge of the life and especially of the music of Mary Lou Williams, but I didn't expect that this book would also push me to think more critically about how to negotiate the available paradigms for talking about Williams, to up the ante for why it is so important to do critical work in musical biographies, and to present, by example, a host of alternative models.
- "Tammy L. Kernodle, Musicology". Miami University.
- "Tammy Kernodle awarded Benjamin Harrison Medallion". Miami University. 2018-04-11.
- Barg, Lisa; Kernodle, Tammy; Spencer, Dianthe; Tucker, Sherrie (2014). "Introduction". Black Music Research Journal. 34 (1): 2. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.34.1.0001. JSTOR 10.5406/blacmusiresej.34.1.0001 – via JSTOR.
- Walker, Chris J. (Dec 2004). "Soul on Soul: The Life of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy Kernodle". JazzTimes. 34 (10): 122. hdl:2027/mdp.39015057437140 – via HathiTrust.
- Komara, Edward M. (June 2005). "Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams". Music Library Association. Notes. 61 (4): 1019–1021. ProQuest 196712746 – via ProQuest.
- "Turning The Tables: 8 Women Who Invented American Popular Music". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- Kernodle, Tammy L. (2020). "Beyond the Chord, the Club, and the Critics: A Historical and Musicological Perspective of the Jazz Avant-Garde". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- "The Girls in the Band". IMDb.
- "Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)". IMDb.
- "Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool". IMDb.
- Russonello, Giovanni (2020-02-22). "Overlooked No More: Valaida Snow, Charismatic 'Queen of the Trumpet'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- Elliott, Debbie (March 25, 2006). "Roberta Flack, In Full Voice on America's Soundtrack". NPR (Weekend All Things Considered). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- Gathright, Jenny (September 11, 2019). "Mary Lou Williams, Missionary Of Jazz". NPR. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- "What live music looks like during a pandemic". Marketplace. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- "The Grove Dictionary of American Music". Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 2021-01-20.