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Jeremy Zima is an Associate Professor of Music at Wisconsin Lutheran College, where he has been a full-time faculty member since Fall 2017. He teaches a comprehensive range of courses including Music History, Theory, Guitar, Opera, and Composition, while also serving as Coordinator of the WLC Jazz Festival.
Dr. Zima holds the following degrees:
- B.A. in Music from Wisconsin Lutheran College (2007)
- M.M. in Jazz Performance and Musicology from Western Illinois University (2009)
- Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)
His research spans historical musicology with dual expertise in early 20th-century German opera (Künstleroper) and jazz studies. He examines the economics and aesthetics of artist-operas by Strauss and Schreker while simultaneously investigating jazz guitar history, racial dynamics, and canon formation in jazz, particularly focusing on pre-1942 trans-Atlantic identity and representations of "whiteness" within the genre.
His scholarly output centers on German musical responses to Weimar-era cultural shifts, exemplified by his 2020 Cambridge University Press chapter on Richard Strauss. Current research trends reveal deep interdisciplinary connections between economic history, aesthetic theory, and critical race studies within musical contexts spanning opera and jazz traditions.
Dr. Zima actively presents his research at major conferences including the American Musicological Society and Institute for Austrian and German Musical Research, with recent work exploring modernism, musical politics, and composition challenges during Germany's Weimar Republic period.
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