Name:
Gary Boye
Email address:
Phone number:
(828) 262-2389
Fax number:
(828) 262-8642
Office address:
Broyhill Music Center, Room 232
Job title:
Music Librarian
Rank:
Professor
Team:
Music Library
Library Responsibilities
- Coordinates the Erneston Music Library in the Broyhill Music Building
- Teaches Music Bibliography and Guitar Literature
- Teaches Information Literacy modules for music history classes
- Performs in-depth reference service in music
- Manages the collection development of the Music Library collection, which includes books, scores, and audio-visual materials for classical, world, and popular musics (note that Appalachian and bluegrass music is collected by the Appalachian Collection in Belk)
- Develops the Web page for the Music Library
Education
- B.M. in Classical Guitar Performance, University of Georgia, 1986
- M.A. in Music History and Literature, University of Georgia, 1988
- Ph.D. in Musicology, Duke University, 1995
- M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
Service Interests
- Serves as a liason between the library and the Hayes School of Music
- Tenured voting member on the library Departmental Personnel Committee
- Chair of the library Curriculum Committee
Scholarly Interests
- The history of plucked string instruments from the 16th Century to the present, focusing primarily on the Baroque guitar, classical guitar, and lute
- The history of country music, especially bluegrass music from the 1940s to 1970s
- Performs on lute, Baroque guitar, and theorbo in Harmonia Baroque, an ASU faculty ensemble
Online Scholarship
- Music for Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela
- A History of Film Exhibition in Caldwell County
- A History of Film Exhibition in Watauga County
- The Second (1875) Watauga County Courthouse: A Preliminary Study
- A History of the Original Watauga Academy Bell
- The Summer of Zappa: Is That a Real Poncho or Is That a Sears' Poncho?
