Biography
A native of Danville, Virginia, Tammy L. Kernodle is the University Distinguished Professor of Music and the inaugural Park Creative Arts Professor at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
Kernodle received a B.M. in Choral Music Education with a concentration in piano from Virginia State University and a M.A. and PhD in Musicology from The Ohio State University.
Kernodle is the Past President of the Society for American Music and Phi Beta Kappa’s 2024-2025 John Updike Memorial Scholar.
As an Author
Kernodle is the author of biography Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, served as Associate Editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American Music. She was also one of the Editors for the revision of the New Grove Encyclopedia of American Music and currently serves the Advisory Board of Grove Music Online, the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
She was a contributor to The African American Lectionary Project, the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap, the Smithsonian Anthology of Jazz, and the Carnegie Hall Digital Timeline of African American Music.
Her scholarship also appears in numerous anthologies and reference works including Women’s Voices Across Musical Worlds, John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music, The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900 and Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment, and Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020.