Prof. Jane Sugarman and Merita Halili sing an impromptu duet at a concert of Albanian music in the Live@365 world music concert series, February 2011
Core faculty regularly teach seminars in the program. Affiliated faculty are involved in other ways, including as resources for dissertation committees and independent study. Ethnomusicology students also study in various capacities with other members of the Graduate Center’s music faculty, including Mark Spicer and Sean O’Donnell (popular music), Jeffrey Taylor (jazz studies), and Emily Wilbourne (gender studies).
Core Ethnomusicology Faculty
Eliot Bates
- Musics of Turkey; audio technologies; recording studios; critical organology; science and technology studies
Peter L. Manuel
- Musics of India and the Caribbean; world popular music
Jane Sugarman
- Music of Southeastern Europe; gender studies; cultural theory
Prof. Eliot Bates recording parts for the multichannel composition “Hayal Alemi,” premiered at the BEASTdome Pantry Sessions
Prof. Peter Manuel before a bagpipe band parade
Affiliated Faculty
Ray Allen
- Affiliated with Brooklyn College
- West Indian music in New York; gospel music
Prof. Ben Lapidus (right) at a changüí festival in Cuba
James Cowdery
- Affiliated with Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale
- Irish music
Barbara L. Hampton
- Affiliated with Hunter College
- Music of Africa
Benjamin Lapidus
- Affiliated with John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Music of Cuba; Latin music in New York
Antoni Pizá
Dr. Scheherazade Hassan speaks on Iraqi maqam at a symposium in honor of Prof. Stephen Blum, December 2015
- Affiliated with Foundation for Iberian Music
- Music of Spain
Jonathan Shannon
- Middle Eastern music
