Ryan Raul Bañagale

Ryan Raul Bañagale is Associate Professor and Chair of Music at Colorado College, where he also serves as Director of the Crown Center for Teaching. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Washington, and Colorado College. His research explores the realm of Arrangement Studies, having applied such approaches to a variety of American music subjects and genres.

He is the author of "Arranging Gershwin: 'Rhapsody in Blue' and the Creation of an American Icon" (Oxford, 2014) and co-editor of “'We Didn’t Start the Fire'”: Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies (Lexington, 2020). Presently he is editing the "Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies." Ryan’s critical edition of the 1924 arrangement of" Rhapsody in Blue" was published as a part of the George and Ira Gershwin Initiative (Schott International, 2022). He is on the editorial board of the Gershwin Critical Edition, "Open Access Musicology," and serves as Digital and Multimedia Editor for the "Journal of the American Musicological Society." His current research project considers the music and career of Ben Folds.