Ethnomusicology student Bradford Garvey has accepted an appointment as Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor for 2019-2020 at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Brad is currently preparing to defend his dissertation, “Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman.” Based on thirteen months of fieldwork supported by a Wenner-Gren dissertation fellowship, the […]
Ethnomusicology student Joseph Alpar has accepted an appointment as Visiting Faculty for 2019-2020 at Bennington College in Vermont. Joe recently defended his dissertation, “Music and Jewish Practice in Contemporary Istanbul: Preserving Heritage, Bending Tradition,” based on twenty-two months of fieldwork with Turkey’s largest Jewish community. The dissertation examines the musical activities of cantors (hazzanim) and […]
GC alumnus David Garcia, professor of ethnomusicology at University of North Carolina, received several awards for his book Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). The awards are as follows: Recipient of the 2018 Commendation, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2018 […]
Ethnomusicology student Lynne Stillings has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-2020. Her project, “Performing Empowerment: Children’s Rights and Musical Participation in Senegal,” will provide a critical examination of the ways that musical performance is being used to introduce concepts of children’s rights to children and youth in Dakar, Senegal. Lynne previously received […]
Ethnomusicology graduate student Chris McGuinness was awarded a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) to conduct field work for his dissertation on electronic dance music (EDM) in India. Chris brings to his work his own experience as a Bollywood composer-producer, and as an EDM artist who has performed extensively in India. Chris […]
Janice Mahinka, after completing her dissertation, “The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study,” has commenced her tenure-track professorial position at Harford College in Maryland. […]
As is customary, the GC’s Ethnomusicology Program had an impressive presence at the 2019 SEM Annual Conference in Indianapolis in November. Seven students presented papers, and two others participated in panels. Prof. Peter Manuel also presented a paper, and Prof. Sugarman participated in a roundtable. The papers were as follows: Brian Bond: “Performing Pain: Emotion […]
Josh Katz-Rosene, after completing his doctorate at the GC and teaching for a year at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Gordon Dale has been hired as Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He recently defended his dissertation, “Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York.”
Elaine Sandoval recently returned from Venezuela, where she completed her fieldwork, funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, on El Sistema’s “Alma llanera” program. While there she published two articles in the Journal of Peace Education special issue on “Music and Peace Education,” Volume 13, Issue 3. The articles are entitled “Potential contributions of music education to peacebuilding: curricular concerns,” […]
Elaine Sandoval gave an invited lecture, “El Sistema: Around the World” for the Venezuelan Society of Musicology, on September 26th, 2016 at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Emmy Williamson presented a paper “Reclaiming the Tarima and Remaking Spaces: Examining Women’s Leadership in the Son Jarocho Community of New York City” at the Fandango […]
