Dr. Samuel Parler

Assistant Professor of Music History

Musicology

Samuel Parler, Assistant Professor of Music History, joined the Baylor faculty in 2019. He teaches courses on U.S. popular music, jazz, and 20th- and 21st-century classical repertories. Dr. Parler holds a BMus (musical arts/piano) from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University. Prior to Baylor, he taught at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. His research focuses on race and respectability politics in early country music media. Forthcoming articles include “DeFord Bailey in Country Music’s Multiracial Canon” (Journal of the American Musicological Society) and “White Noise: Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Racialized Construction of U.S. Music History” (co-authored with Glenda Goodman, in Reinventing U.S. Music Studies, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol J. Oja). Dr. Parler has also presented at numerous national and international conferences and is a recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the Mark Tucker Award from the Society for American Music.