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Michigan State University, Visiting Instructor.
School Of  Music, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI  48824-1043.

Phone:  (517)353-9013

E-mail: allendeg@pilot.msu.edu

Dissertation:

seis piezas para varios instrumentos [six pieces for several instruments],
2000,
Music Composition,
Michigan State University.

Research interest keywords:

puerto rico, caribbean, african diaspora, identity, history, theory.

The relationship between historical discourses and musical practices as a site of identity formation. Current projects are, (a) the study of the construction and representation of colonial subjects as a process of identity formation- the case of The United States and the Acquisition of Puerto Rico, and the New Territories, 1898-1940; and (b) an authoethnographic research dealing with issues of personal, family, and national identity and how they play out as processes of musical acculturation.

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Arevalo, Jorge

Gradate Student
City University of New York

Department of Music
Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

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Acting Chair, New York University, Department of Music
Associate Professor, Director of the Program in Ethnomusicology

Music Department
New York University
24 Waverly Pl #268
New York, NY 10003-6789

Fax: (212) 995-4147

E-mail: gage.averill@nyu.edu

Dissertation:

Haitian Dance Band Music: The Political Economy of Exuberance

Research interest keywords:

Haiti, barbershop, politics, nostalgia, Caribbean, carnival

Research interests and current projects:

A book on barbershop harmony for Oxford UP (Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony); CD series editor for Rounder Records of Alan Lomax's 1936-7 Haitian recordings; Series Editor for the Routledge series: Perspectives on Global Pop; paper on the "Haitian Orchestra" of Sidney Bechet and Willie "The Lion" Smith.

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Bates, Eliot

Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Audio engineer
Department of Music, University of California Berkeley

1200 Morrison Hall #104
Berkeley, CA  94720

E-mail: eliot@musiq.com

Web pages:

http://www.eliotbates.com

Dissertation:

Interactions, Networks, and the Production of Digital Audio in an Istanbul Recording Studio.
2008
Ethnomusicology
University of California Berkeley

Research interest keywords:

Mediation, recording studios, audio engineers, producers, Turkish music, EDM, electronica/ambient/glitch/experimental popular music, music technology, producers, internet communities.

Publication:

2004. "Glitches, bugs, and hisses: the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work," in Bad Music: Music You Love to Hate, edited by Chris Washburne and Maiken Derno. New York: Routledge.

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Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A & M University.

Department of Performance Studies
Texas A & M University
TAMUS 4240
College Station, TX
77843-4240
USA

Fax: 979.862.2666

E-mail: harris-m-berger@neo.tamu.edu

Web pages:

http://orpheus.tamu.edu/Berger.htm

Dissertation:

Perception in the Moral Continuum of History: An Ethnography of Metal, Rock, and Jazz In Northeast Ohio
1995
Folklore Institute
Indiana University

Research interest keywords:

Popular music, heavy metal, phenomenology, practice theory, folklore theory, cultural studies, performance studies

Research interests and current projects:

Click [here] to follow link to research interests and current projects.

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Besiroglu, S. Sehvar

Prof., Dr.

ITU Turkish Music Conservatory
Department of Musicology
Macka Campus
Macka
Istanbul
Turkey

Phone: 0212 293 1300/ext2795
            0532 4727042

Fax: 0212 2402750

E-mail:

besir@itu.edu.tr

Dissertation:

Analyzing on the III.Selim ( Ottoman Sultan and composer) era and critique on Music and musicians.
1994
Istanbul Technical University
Social Science Institute

Research interest keywords:

gender, organology,ottoman-Turkish music,  Ottoman dancers(kocek, cengi, cocek in Balkans), popular music in Turkey, music in Mediterranean cultures

Research interests and current projects:

Gender studies in Ottoman and Turkish music. Especially on Zeki Muren who is the homosexual music idol in early republican era. At the same time the other lesbian star who is Muzeyyen Senar.

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Cain, M.Celia

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Faculty of Music
University of Toronto
80 Queen's Park
Toronto ON M5S 2C5
CANADA

For additional contact information, see the SEM directory.

Dissertation:

Songbirds: Representation, Meaning, and Indigenous Public Culture in Native American Women's Popular Music
2003
Music
University of Chicago

Research interest keywords:

First Nations popular music, gender, performance, North American popular music

Research interests and current projects:

Currently at work on Planet Indigenous: First Nations Popular Music and Indigenous Public Culture.

 

 

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Rhode Island School of Design

Liberal Arts Division
Rhode Island School of Design
2 College St.
Providence, RI 02903

E-mail: dcavicch@risd.edu

Dissertation:

Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans
1996
Department of American Civilization
Brown University

fandom, reception theory, fieldwork, historical ethnomusicology

Research interests and current projects:

A study of the historical reception of music in the United States since 1800, focusing on significant moments of change in the music literacy and audience behavior.

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Donahue, Matthew

Educator, Producer, Visual Artist
Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

Phone: 419-372-9181

Fax: 419-372-2577

E-mail: mattdon@bgnet.bgsu.edu or md1210@yahoo.com

Web page: www.md1210.com

Dissertation:  

The Message Behind the Beat:Social and Political Attitudes in American Rap and Punk Music
2001
American Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University

Research interest keywords:

blues, rock, reggae, punk, rap, metal

Research interests and current projects:

Current projects vary in music and the arts, from social and political examinations of American rap and punk, to a documentary film on the infamous Hines Farm Blues Club, to examining the impact and history of popular culture, and making art cars, check out my website at www.md1210.com.

 

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School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa

2-2451 Falcon Ave.
Ottawa ON
K1V 8C8
Canada

E-mail: wechard@rideau.carleton.ca

Web page: www.carleton.ca/~wechard/

Dissertation:
 

Neil Young, Embodiment, and Stylistic Diversity: A Social-Semiotic and
Musicological Perspective. York University, September 2000.

semiotics, embodiment, reception, canada, analysis, musical personas

20 Seaman Ave. #1-B
New York, NY 10034

Phone: (212) 942-0664

E-mail: kfikentscher@hotmail.com

Dissertation:

"You Better Work!" Music, Dance, and Marginality in Underground Dance Clubs of New York City
1996
Dept. of Music
Columbia University
New York, NY

Research interest keywords:

Local and global DJ cultures, technologies and the music industry

Book: "You Better Work!" Underground Dance Music in New York City. (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)

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Chicago State University, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology/Musicology
 

Department of Music/HWH 331
Chicago State University
9501 S. King Drive
Chicago, IL 60628-1598

Fax: (773) 995-3767

E-mail: J-Florine@csu.edu

Dissertation:

"Musical Change From Within:  A Case Study of Cuarteto Music From Córdoba, Argentina"
1996
Musicology/Ethnomusicology Department
Florida State University

innovation, ethnicity, copyright, Argentina, applied ethnomusicology

I am finishing my book on cuarteto and a related article on copyright in Argentina.  I am working with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in taking classical music to Hispanic and African-American populations. I have done cultural diversity training for Lucent Technologies and will eventually help the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.