Daniel Goldmark, who joined the Department of Music in 2005, works on American popular music, film and cartoon music, and the history of the music industry. He received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Riverside. Goldmark received both a M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a dissertation titled Happy Harmonies: Music and the Hollywood Animated Cartoon. Goldmark co-edited The Cartoon Music Book (A Cappella, 2001), Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (California, 2007), and Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood (California, 2011). His monograph, Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon, was published in 2005. His current research is on music publishing, Tin Pan Alley in the early 1900s, and music publishing in Cleveland, including the music of Cleveland-born composer J.S. Zamecnik. He is the series editor of the Oxford Music/Media Series from Oxford University Press, and is a senior editor for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition. In 2010 he began a three-year term as the review editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
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