Nicholas Ezra Field

ABOUT

Nicholas Ezra Field is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at Michigan State University. He holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for his dissertation “Outlandish Authors: Innocenzo Fede and Musical Patronage at the Stuart Court in London and in Exile.” His courses at Michigan State University, where he has taught since 2011, explore European musical history, twentieth-century American music, and the intersections between music, religion, cosmopolitanism, patronage, and tradition. A professional violinist for over twenty-five years, he performs with the Flint, Adrian, and Saginaw Bay symphony orchestras. His work as the lead guitarist for the alternative rock band Tension Splash draws international critical acclaim.

Field’s research appears in European and American scholarly journals and conferences. His study of converging cosmopolitan musical, religious, and scientific movements in London during the 1670s is published in the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music as “Italian Spice and the Catholic Menace: The Paradox of Italian Musical Influence in the Cultural Formation of Early Modern England.” His work on European migration, classicization, nationality, and Western identity is found in Ergon: Greek, American, and Diaspora Arts and Letters as “Romancing Greek History: Sophocles Papas and the Cosmopolitan Classicization of American Music.” Other publications include reviews in the Royal Studies Journal, Michigan Jewish History, and program notes for the highly praised album Schumann in Love recorded by Genadi Zagor and distributed by Blue Griffin Recording, inc. His rock music releases include the albums Tension Splash, Soak, and Blur issued by Harmless Dosage Records.