2022

• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John; Dubowsky, Jack. (2022) Music for Middlebrows: Jack Dubowsky, 'Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-1978' (Routledge); John Howland, 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music' (University of California Press). International Association for the Study of Popular Music U.S Popular Music Books in Process Series, Fall 2021-Winter 2022 , Los Angeles / online 2022-10-08 - 2022-10-08
• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John Louis; Hammill, Faye; Guthrie, Kate. (2022) Conversations on Art and Life: Music and the Middlebrow. University of Bristol and the Middlebrow Research Network Book launch discussion , online 2022-03-30 - 2022-03-30
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Paul Whiteman and Modern Metropolitan Impressions, 1927–1940. Williams College PAUL WHITEMAN IN AMERICAN MUSIC: A Symposium at Williams College Bernhard Music Center August 27, 2022 , Williamstown, MA 2022-08-27 - 2022-08-27
• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Book launch presentation: John Howland, 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music'. Rockheim Museum Book launch presentation , Trondheim 2022-02-09 - 2022-02-09
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John Louis. (2022) Nobrow in the New Millennium?: The Postminimalist Affinities of New York's Indie Rock and Indie Classical Communities in the 2000s. Göteborgs universitet Classical Music in Contemporary Media and Society , Göteborg 2022-02-13 - 2022-02-15

2021

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2021) Book Presentation: 'Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music". Lund University Book release presentation , Lund 2021-03-02 - 2021-03-02
• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John. (2021) Soundmania! Popular Music and Technology in the 1950s and 1960s. Rockheim Soundmania! Popular Music and Technology in the 1950s and 1960s , Trondheim 2021-02-18 - 2021-02-18
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2021) Campaign for the American Reader, Pg. 99 Blog: John Howland's "Hearing Luxe Pop". http://americareads.blogspot.com/2021/06/pg-99-john-howlands http://americareads.blogspot.com/2021/06/pg-99-john-howlands [Internet] 2021-06-22
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2021) Music Journalism Insider: John Howland Interview (Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music). https://www.musicjournalisminsider.com/archive/john-howland- https://www.musicjournalisminsider.com/archive/john-howland- [Internet] 2021-07-11

2019

• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John. (2019) Hollywood ‘Songs for Swingin’ Lovers: Frank Sinatra’s Hi-Fi Music for Playboys, Modern Romance and Martinis. Musikverket public research talk at the archive , Stockholm 2019-12-02 - 2019-12-02

2017

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2017) Phil Spector and the ‘Fabulous’ Ronettes: Early 1960s ‘Teenage Symphonies’ and the American Lower Middlebrow. University of Notre Dame Music and the Middlebrow , London 2017-06-22 - 2017-06-24

2015

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2015) Between Jazz and Soul in the 1960s and 1970s. Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University Colloquia series of the Department of Music , Cleveland, OH 2015-12-04 - 2015-12-04
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2015) Isaac Hayes and the Intersections of Jazz and Soul in the Early 1970s. Case Western Reserve University, Musicology Department Invited guest lecture , Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 2015-12-04 - 2015-12-04

2014

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2014) “Teenage Symphonies: The Production Process of Phil Spector and Jack Nitzsche, and the (Orchestral) Sound of Young America in the Early 1960s”. Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production Art of Record Production Conference: Record Production in the Internet Age , Oslo 2014-12-04 - 2014-12-06

2013

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2013) "Hot Buttered Soul" and Billboard Jazz: The Curious Case of Isaac Hayes and the Intersections of Jazz and Soul, 1969-1973. Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures , Media City UK/University of Salford 2013-04-11 - 2013-04-14

2011

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2011) Nobrow Pop in the New Millennium?: Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, and Post-2000 Chamber Pop. American Musicological Society American Musicological Society, annual meeting , San Francisco, CA 2011-11-10 - 2011-11-13
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2011) On Background Bling and the Luxe Pop Legacy: A Long View on Jay- Z, Kanye West, and the Hustler Symphony Orchestra. Experience Music Project Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Music and Money , UCLA Department of Musicology, Los Angeles, CA 2011-02-25 - 2011-02-27

2010

• Interview
  Howland, John. (2010) “Arcade Fire enflamme Winnepeg”. La Liberté La Liberté [Newspaper] 2010-10-05
• Popular scientific lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) Keynote lecture: Jazz Artists in the Concert Hall. Oakland East Bay Symphony Oakland East Bay Symphony Forum , Oakland, CA 2010-05-05 - 2010-05-05
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) Jazz and Film: The Syncopated City and Craftsmanship. John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University Faculty Research Speakers' Series of the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University , Newark, NJ 2010-04-07 - 2010-04-07
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2010) On Background Bling and the Luxe Pop Legacy: A Long View on Jay-Z, Kanye West, and the Hustler Symphony Orchestra. University of Virginia, McIntire Dept. of Music University of Virginia, McIntire Dept. of Music’s Colloquium series , Charlottesville, VA 2010-12-03 - 2010-12-03
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2010) “Portraits of Harlem” episode for the syndicated National Public Radio program "City Lights," WFIU Public Radio, Indiana. Bloomington, IN Bloomington, IN [Radio] 2010-03-01

2009

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop: The Six Degrees of Separation from Jay-Z to Symphonic Jazz. Middlebrow Network Middlebrow Cultures , University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Scotland 2009-07-14 - 2009-07-15
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop in the (Symphonic) Jazz Age. School of Music’, University of Maryland School of Music Musicology Colloquium, University of Maryland College Park , College Park, MD 2009-04-05 - 2009-04-05
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Luxe Pop: The Six Degrees of Separation from Jay-Z to Symphonic Jazz. American Musicological Society American Musicological Society annual meeting , Philadelphia, PA 2009-11-12 - 2009-11-15
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Jay-Z, the Hustler Symphony Orchestra, and the Legacy of Luxe Pop. Department of Music at The University of Nottingham Invited lecture , Nottingham, UK 2009-06-19 - 2009-06-19
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2009) Keynote: The Symphonic Ellington and "A Tone Parallel to Harlem.". University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music Echoes of Ellington: A Conference on the Music and Life of Duke Ellington , University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music 2009-04-15 - 2009-04-17
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2009) Interviewed for the “Eric in the Evening” show, hosted by Eric Jackson, on WGBH, Boston. Boston, MA Boston, MA [Radio] 2009-07-28
• Interview
  Howland, John. (2009) Interviewed for “Book Report,” hosted by Randy O’Brien, on WMOT. Murfreesboro, TN Murfreesboro, TN [Radio] 2009-06-06

2008

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) With Strings: Orchestral Pop and Glorified Entertainment. Music Division of Southampton University Invited lecture , Southampton University; Southampton 2008-06-02 - 2008-06-02
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) With Strings: Orchestral Pop and Glorified Entertainment. Department of Music, Goldsmiths University Invited lecture , Department of Music, Goldsmiths University, London, UK 2008-06-24 - 2008-06-24
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2008) Populuxe: The Birth of Glorified Pop in the (Symphonic) Jazz Age. Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY Invited lecture at the Institute for Studies in American Music , Brooklyn, NY 2008-02-05 - 2008-02-05

2007

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) “‘Negro Nuances’: Harlem Entertainment and ‘Glorified’ Popular Music in the 1920s". Society for American Music Society for American Music annual conference , Pittsburgh, PA 2007-02-28 - 2007-03-04
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) Symphonic Swing. Newcomb Department of Music of Tulane University Invited lecture , Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 2007-04-26 - 2007-04-26
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era. School of Music, Cardiff University Invited lecture , Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales 2007-04-03 - 2007-04-03
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) 'The Melting Pot of Music’: Glorified ‘Jazz’ in American Entertainments of the Interwar Era. Sibelius Academy “De-Canonizing Music History,” International Symposium for Histories of Popular Music, Jazz, and Folk Music , Helsinki, Finland 2007-11-29 - 2007-12-01
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2007) The Sound and Image of “Traditional Pop.”. Musicology Prog, Dept for Media and Culture, Utrecht U. Invited lecture , Utrecht University, Utrecht 2007-10-24 - 2007-10-24

2006

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2006) Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook. Musicology Department, Indiana University Musicology Department Colloquium Series, Indiana University , Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2006-01-27 - 2006-01-27

2005

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era”. Leeds College of Music Leeds International Jazz Conference , Leeds, UK 2005-03-11 - 2005-03-12
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Hollywood ‘Songs for Swingin’ Lovers’”. Society for American Music Society for American Music annual conference , University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 2005-02-16 - 2005-02-20
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “Sinatra and Riddle in the 1950s: Reinventing Swing for the Hi-Fi Era”. Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Socie Greater New York Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society , Manhattan, New York 2005-04-06 - 2005-04-06
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) “‘Jazz’ with Strings”. American Musicological Society American Musicological Society annual meeting , Washington, D.C. 2005-10-27 - 2005-10-30
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2005) Duke Ellington and the Idea of Symphonic Jazz. Music Department, Westminster College of Rider University Invited lecture , Princeton, NJ 2005-10-03 - 2005-10-03
• Programme participation
  Howland, John. (2005) "The Funniest Man: The Wit and Music of Bert Williams," radio documentary, directed by Elizabeth McNamee and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society for American Music. New York New York [Radio] 2005-01-01

2004

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) Orchestral Jazz Arranging and American Popular Music in the 1950s. Nordic Musicological Congress 14th Nordic Musicological Congress , Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland 2004-08-11 - 2004-08-14
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) “‘Gershwinesque’ Paraphrases in Classical Hollywood Film”. Stanford University Reviewing the Canon: Borrowed Music in Film , Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2004-05-01 - 2004-05-04
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) “The Capitol Jazz Aesthetic”. American Studies Association American Studies Association annual meeting: Crossroads of Cultures , Atlanta, GA 2004-11-11 - 2004-11-14
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2004) Jazz Rhapsodies in Black and White: The Cultural Nexus of James P. Johnson’s “Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody.”. Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Research Round Table, Institute of Jazz Studies , Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 2004-09-15 - 2004-09-15

2003

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2003) “The Whitemanesque Roots of Ellingtonian Extended Jazz Composition”. International Association for Jazz Education International Association for Jazz Education annual meeting , Toronto 2003-01-09 - 2003-01-12

2002

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2002) The Roots of Ellingtonian Jazz Composition and Extended Form. Music Department, Washington University Invited lecture , Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2002-03-15 - 2002-03-15
• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2002) The Roots of Ellingtonian Jazz Composition and Extended Form. Music Department, University of California at Davis Invited lecture , University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2002-02-05 - 2002-02-05

2001

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2001) The Melting Pot of Music: “Glorifying” the American Popular Song, and the Aesthetics of Whitemanesque Symphonic Jazz in 1920s Entertainment. Dept of Cultural Sciences, Musicology, Gothenburg Universit Invited lecture , Gothenburg, Sweden 2001-04-20 - 2001-04-20

2000

• Academic lecture
  Howland, John. (2000) “Between the Muses and the Masses: Jazz Rhapsodies and the Emergence of Middlebrow Culture”. American Musicological Society American Musicological Society annual meeting , Toronto 2000-11-01 - 2000-11-05