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Humanities Music History & Culture (Musicology)

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Dr. Bowman earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in its Department of Musicology. His dissertation (“Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians’ Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture”) interprets and contextualizes music by the Canadian progressive/hard rock band Rush. This work includes such themes and methodologies as cultural studies, ideology, identity, technology, and genre. He has also worked on a book about the breaking down of cultural hierarchy and other issues in the music of The Simpsons. His earlier degrees were an M.A. in musicology from the University of Toronto and an Honours B.A. in Music and Applied Studies from the University of Waterloo.