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- ↑ "Faculty member Steve Swayne elected President of American Musicological Society". Dartmouth Department of Music. May 2019.
- ↑ "Steve Swayne Joins John W. Kluge Center as Chair in Modern Culture". Library of Congress. March 2022.
