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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 maybe in the 1960s with Princeton and Oliver Strunk78 (1901–1980). Large numbers of Americanmusicologists came out of it, whichwas verymuch concernedwith the notion, asKennethLevy79 (1927–2013) said, “goodmusicologymusthave either a first-classproblemor first- class music, or both.” And that was true of Americanmusic. I don’t knowwhetherAdlerwouldhave said, “Americanmusic,what’s that?” Orwhether hewouldhave said, “well, sure, every country has its own music.”At somepoint, whenpeople likeCharlesHammandH.Wiley Hitchcock80 (1923–2007) and Richard Crawford81 (bn. 1935) began to promulgate this. I thinkRichCrawford is one personwho verymuch helped things turnaround.Now, there’s almostnoonedoinganything except American music. Well, I’ve overstated that. But in Austria in Adler’s earlierdays,noonewasdoinganythingexceptAustrianmusic. (Well, I’veoverstated that too, I suppose.) PVB: Idid teachayear, twosemestersofAmericanmusicat theUniversityof Vienna in 1995–96. I was asked to do so by the American Fulbright Commission. BN: Whatdid they say? PVB: The students, of course, loved it. They were thrilled to have American music inVienna.Bruno,we’vecovereda lothere.Thankssoverymuch. Muchappreciated. BN: Mypleasure! 78 OliverStrunkwasanAmericanmusicologistwhoseteachingandresearchshapedthefieldof musicologyatPrincetonUniversity. 79 KennethLevywasanAmericanmusicologistwhoseworkfocusedonearlymusichistory.He taught formanyyears atPrincetonUniversity. 80 H.WileyHitchcockwas anAmericanmusicologist who specialized in Frenchmusic and musicoftheBaroque,butespeciallyAmericanmusic.HetaughtformanyyearsatBrooklyn CollegeandtheGraduateCenterof theCityUniversityofNewYork. 81 RichardCrawford isanAmericanmusicologistwhoseresearchhasestablishedpath-break- ingnewareas inAmericanmusicstudies.Educatedat theUniversityofMichigan,hehelda professorshipatMichiganthroughouthis entirecareer. Adler inAmerica–AConversation 225 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0