Kevin Holm-Hudson
Associate Professor of Theory

Degrees:
DMA in Composition - University of Illinois

Research interests: Theory, composition, popular music studies

At UK since: 2000

Phone number: 859-257-8196

Email: kjholm2@uky.edu

Kevin Holm-Hudson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition (with ethnomusicology emphasis) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his principal instructors included Salvatore Martirano, William Brooks, and Bruno Nettl. His research interests include popular music, American twentieth-century experimental music, and musical semiotics.

Dr. Holm-Hudson is the author of articles published in Leonardo Music Journal, American Music, Music Theory Online, Popular Music and Society, Ex Tempore, Genre, and National Association of Schools of Music Proceedings. He is the editor of Progressive Rock Reconsidered (Routledge, 2002). He has presented his research nationally at meetings of the Society for Music Theory, (Sonneck) Society for American Music, National Association of Schools of Music, College Music Society, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. He has also presented papers at international conferences of popular music (Turku, Finland; Montreal, Canada; Seattle, Washington), music theory (Vilnius, Lithuania), twentieth-century music (London), and semiotics (Imatra, Finland; Lyon, France). His compositions have been commissioned by the Ancia Saxophone Quartet (Minneapolis), Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois), University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Singers, Kentucky Music Teachers Association, and Contemporary Theatre of Syracuse.