A new article, “Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia,” co-authored by ethnomusicology students Romulo Moraes and Julia Santoli, DMA student Sophie Delphis, and ethnomusicology faculty Eliot Bates, was recently published in the journal Cultural Sociology. This was a student-led research project that began in Prof. Bates’ class “Music in/on the Internet.” See link below for […]
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Professor Anaar Desai-Stephens, Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology), joins the Graduate Center from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester
Anaar Desai-Stephens, Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology), joins the Graduate Center from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester where she was an assistant professor of ethnomusicology while holding affiliations with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Visual and Cultural Studies programs. Her work focuses on popular music, media […]
Romulo Barbosa, Ethnomusicology
The Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology is by far the most important conference in the field, and this year it will be held jointly with the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, so it should be an even bigger event. This will be my first time going to SEM in […]
Carlos Cuestas, Ethnomusicology
Carlos, a PhD Candidate in the Ethnomusicology Program, will present “After All, Music is the Cherry on Top:” Amateur Radicalism and Affective Strategies of Son Jarocho Colectivos in Southern Veracruz” at the 2022 Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans. Carlos’s ethnographic research investigates how young activists in Veracruz, Mexico, use the collective music-making features […]
Agustina Checa (Ph.D. ’22, Music: Ethnomusicology), on the tenure track at Lehman College,
Augustina Checa completed her dissertation in record time and is now on the tenure track as an assistant professor of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance Department at Lehman College. Learn more about her inspiring story here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alum-joins-tenure-track-lehman-after-writing-her-dissertation-record-time
GC Professor Benjamin Lapidus Publishes Book
Congratulations to GC Professor Benjamin Lapidus, whose book New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940–1990 is available now! New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean […]
GC Alum Evan Rapport Publishes Book
Congratulations to Evan Rapport (PhD Ethnomusicology), whose book Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk has recently been published! Damaged is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style. In Damaged, Rapport explores how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical […]
Student Stephanie Lou George to present at Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference
GC student Stephanie Lou George recently presented a paper entitled “‘It used to be all Hindi’: The Global Resonance of Indo-Guyanese ‘Madrasi’ Sonic Practices for Invoking a Local Tamil Diaspora” at Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference! In this presentation, Stephanie drew from Juan Flores’s idea of diasporic music making and exchange as forms of […]
GC Professor Eliot Bates Presents at AES and SEM
GC Professor Eliot Bates recently presented talks at two conferences: “When Manley Pride Threatens Manly Pride: Examining Gear Online” for the panel “Unlocking the Control Room: Equity Achievements in Audio” at the Audio Engineering Society conference, and “Resource ecologies, political economies, and the ethics of audio technologies in the anthropocene” at the Society for Ethnomusicology […]
GC professor Ben Lapidus presents at SEM on Oct. 30th
GC professor Ben Lapidus will be presenting a paper entitled “El Patio de Adela: Music, Medicine, and Cultural Preservation in Guantánamo, Cuba” at the upcoming The Society for Ethnomusicology 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, on Oct. 30 from 2-4pm. Congratulations! Founded in February 2014 and operating out of Dr. Adela Gómez Blanco’s backyard, El patio de […]
GC Professor Peter Manuel presents at SEM conference
Peter Manuel, emeritus professor of ethnomusicology, will be presenting a paper entitled “South Asian Musics and Cultural Remittances in Global Perspective: Making Sense out of Diasporic Flows” at the upcoming The Society for Ethnomusicology 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Professor Manuel!
Lynne Stillings presents at SEM 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting!
Congratulation to CUNY Ethnomusicology PhD Student Lynne Stillings, who will be presenting a paper entitled “The Right to Participation: Childhood, NGOs, and Cultural Production in Dakar, Senegal”, at the upcoming The Society for Ethnomusicology 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting! Summary: In Senegal, programs that utilize music as a means of promoting children’s rights have become a […]