Gilbert Chase (4 September 1906, Havana, Cuba – 22 February 1992, Chapel Hill, North Carolina[1]) was an American music historian, critic and author, and a "seminal figure in the field of musicology and ethnomusicology."
Chase's analysis of a diverse American musical identity has remained the dominant view among the academic establishment.
[2] He also "was the first to treat the music of Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles as important additions to the 20th-century repertory".
[3] Chase served as the cultural attaché in Lima (1950–53), Buenos Aires (1953–55) and Brussels (1960–63).
[3] After retiring in 1979, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and died there, of pneumonia, in 1992.