Friday October 19, 2018
4:00PM-6:00PM
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University Morningside Campus, 116th St and Broadway, NY NY)
Free and Open to the Public, Reception to Follow

Braxton D. Shelley is an assistant professor in the music department at Harvard University, and the Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. He was the 2016 recipient of the Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society.

Shelley completed a PhD in the history and theory of music and a master of divinity at the University of Chicago. He earned a BA in music and history from Duke University. In his doctoral dissertation, “Sermons in Song: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination,” Shelley’s analysis of gospel music braids cognitive theory, ritual theory, and preaching with studies of repetition, form, rhythm, and meter.