Before Micky Dolenz’s "60 Years of The Monkees" concert, join Dr. Kathryn Metz for a special Pre-Concert Lecture, "The Monkees Predicted the Future: Boy Bands, Marketing & Crossover Media Success."
Following in the footsteps of Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, The Beatles and other popular groups, The Monkees cemented their legacy by successfully developing the boy band formula that influenced generations of artists, from New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men to *NSYNC and One Direction. Metz will explore how The Monkees achieved their success and proved critics wrong through skilled musicianship, charming personalities and lucrative forays into other media.
Metz is Director of Musical Studies, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Administrative Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at Oberlin College & Conservatory. She previously served as Humanities Department Chair at Hawken Upper School, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Oberlin Conservatory, and Manager of Community & Family Programs at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
She holds a PhD and Master of Music in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Music in ethnomusicology from Bowling Green State University. Her doctoral research focused on popular music in the urban Amazon of Peru, and her current research interests center on pop music pedagogy, music and social justice in Cleveland’s music and arts communities, and education equity.
