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James Massengale
American musicologist
James Rhea Massengale is an American musicologist and former professor at UCLA, who has specialised in the Swedish poets Carl Michael Bellman and Olof von Dalin.[1] He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.[2] He was educated at Yale University (BA 1961), Cambridge University (MA 1968), and Harvard University (PhD in Scandinavian literature 1972). He was a professor at UCLA from 1970 to his retirement in 2006.[3]