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Richard Arthur Crawford (May 12, 1935 – July 23, 2024) was an American music historian and professor of music at the University of Michigan. His American Musical Landscape was one of the seminal works of American music history, published in 2001. He published several other books, and edited a series of books on American music. He was an honorary member and president of the American Musicological Society, one of the founding members of the Society for American Music, and was the founder and editor-in-chief of MUSA (Music of the United States of America). He was born in Detroit.

Crawford died from congestive heart failure in Ann Arbor, on July 23, 2024, at the age of 89.

References

1. "Richard Crawford". University of Michigan Regents. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
2. "Faculty Awards: Richard Crawford, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award". The University Record. October 3, 1994. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
3. "AMS – Administration". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
4. "Richard Crawford to Deliver Inaugural Plenary Lecture". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
5. "Personnel". MUSA. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
6. "Richard Crawford, Renowned Music Historian, Dies at 89". The New York Times. July 30, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

External links

• Interview with Crawford in Humanities, November/December 1997
• Conference Report on the symposium honoring Crawford's retirement in Echo, Spring 2003
• Richard Crawford Bibliography in Echo, Spring 2003

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