Mark Samples, Adjunct Instructor
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(541) 346-5605 | msample1@uoregon.edu
Mark Samples received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Oregon, and a bachelor’s degree with honors in Music Theory and Composition from Point Loma Nazarene University. His current research focuses on reassessing the role of commercialism in 20th- and 21st-century music, and the work on his dissertation, A Package Deal: Branding, Technology, and Advertising in Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries earned him the University Outstanding Scholar in Music award in 2011. He has given lectures and research presentations in the northwest, as well as in Boston and the Czech Republic, and is the author of several forthcoming entries in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. His research interests also include opera, and as Dramaturg for the UO Opera (2010 and 2011 seasons), Samples assisted the productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Senile Madness, an evening of commedia dell’arte. Samples also reviews classical music concerts for the Register-Guard of Eugene.
At the University of Oregon, Samples has taught or assisted courses on western music history, music of the world, music of the Americas, and opera. He was awarded the School of Music and Dance’s Excellence in Teaching Award for graduate students.
Research interests: commercialism in music (19th-21st centuries), music and branding, popular music, the music of Sufjan Stevens, 19th-century French opera, music history pedagogy.
