Barry Ulanov

Barry Ulanov (April 10, 1918 – April 30, 2000) was an American writer.

Ulanov's father was Nathan Ulanov, concertmaster in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Philharmonic. His father taught him violin, but after a car crash in which he broke both wrists, he ceased studying the instrument. He studied at Columbia University, taking his BA there in 1939, and wrote about jazz as a student. Soon after graduating he edited several magazines and journals on music. He edited the journal "Metronome" from 1943-1955, and shifted its focus from Western art music to cover more jazz music, especially black musicians who had heretofore received little notice in the journal.

Ulanov was an early advocate of bebop, especially Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Lennie Tristano. He organized several concerts comprised of bop stars for WOR radio in 1947. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in the 1950s. From 1955-58 he wrote for "Down Beat", and published several biographies of jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s. He taught at Juilliard (1946), Princeton (1950-51), and Barnard College (1951-1988) as well as at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. In 1962 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Ulanov converted to Catholicism in 1951, and began to write more on the subjects of religion and psychology from the 1960s. He was the president of the Catholic Renascence Society and founder of the St. Thomas More Society; he and his wife, Joan, translated many essays and books on Catholicism. He served on the council for Vatican II, advocating for use of the vernacular in the Mass. He advocated the use of amplified music in church, including rock music.

Books

"(incomplete)"
*"Duke Ellington" (1946)
*"The Incredible Crosby" (1948)
*"A History of Jazz in America" (1955)
*"A Handbook of Jazz" (1957)
*"The Making of a Modern Saint: A Biographical Study of Thèrése of Liseux"
*"Death: A Book of Preparation and Consolation" (1959)
*"Sources & Resources: The Literary Traditions of Christian Humanism" (1960)
*"The Bridge: A Judeo-Christian Journal" (?) with Msgr. John Oesterreicher
*"The Way of Saint Alphonsus of Liguori" (1960)
*"Makers of the Modern Theater" (1961)
*"Seeds of Hope in the Modern World" 1962)
*"Contemporary Catholic Thought" (1963)
*"The Two World of American Art: The Private and the Popular" (1965)
*"Modern Culture and the Arts" (1972) (with James B. Hall)
*"The Prayers of St. Augustine" (1983)
*"Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution" (1983) (with Alan Roland, Claude Barbre)
*"Men and Women: Sexual Ethics in Turbulent Times" (1989)
*"Jung and the Outside World" (1992)
*"On Death: Wisdom and Consolation from the World's Great Writers" (1996)

"with Joan Bel Geddes"
*"George Bernanos" translation of novel (?)

"with Ann Belford Ulanov"
*"Primary Speech: A Psychology of Prayer" (1975)
*"Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying" (1978)
*"Religion and the Unconscious" (1985)
*"The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality" (1987)
*"The Healing Imagination: The Meeting of Psyche and Soul" (1991)
*"Transforming Sexuality: The Archetypal World of Anima and Animus" (1994)

"other"
*"Groovin' High by Barry Ulanov & His Metronome All-Stars (Music Download)"

References

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E1DE1238F934A35756C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon= Obituary] , "New York Times"
*Gary W. Kennedy, "Barry Ulanov". "Grove Jazz" online.