Columbia Ethnomusicology Faculty Biographies

Fox, Aaron

(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Texas 1995) Associate Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music. Popular music; working-class cultures; language and music; race, class, and indigeneity; ethnographic theory and method; history of social thought; linguistics; Native American Studies; cultural and intellectual property issues. Author of Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.

See Aaron Fox's complete profile on the main Music Department site.

Personal FAQ -- IMPORTANT: Please read this before contacting Aaron with "cold call" questions by phone or email. Aaron may not be able to reply to inquiries that are addressed on his FAQ page.

Email: aaf19@columbia.edu

Website: http://aaronfox.com

Ochoa, Ana María

(Ph.D., Ethnomusicology and Folklore, Indiana University 1996) Associate Professor of Music; Director, Center for Ethnomusicology: cultural policy, music and armed conflict, intellectual property, history of aurality, Latin American cultural studies, music and globalization.
Email: ao2110@columbia.edu

Washburne, Christopher

(Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 1999) Associate Professor of Music; Chair, Ethnomusicology Area Committee, 2008-9;Director, Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. Jazz; Salsa; Latin American and Caribbean musics; music and identity;performance.
Email: cjw5@columbia.edu
Website: http://chriswashburne.com

Books by Columbia Ethno Faculty Members:

Newly Published, by our newest faculty member!
Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion
by Kevin Fellezs
Duke University Press, 2011

	*NEWLY PUBLISHED!* *Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City* by Christopher Washburne Further information here Order Online www.temple.edu/tempress
	*Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate.* Edited by Christopher Washburne and Maiken Derno. (Routledge 2004) Order Bad Music through Amazon.com
	*Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.* by Aaron A. Fox (Duke 2004). Visit the Real Country website! Order Real Country through Amazon.com
	*Entre los Deseos y Los Derechos: Un Ensayo Crítico Sobre Políticas Culturales.* by Ana María Ochoa Gautier (Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia 2003)
	*Musicas Locales en Tiempos de Globalización.* by Ana María Ochoa (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2003). Order Musicas Locales en Tiempos de Globalización through Amazon.com
	*Músicas en Transición.* Edited by Ana María Ochoa Gautier and Alejandra Cragnolini (Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura, 2001)

Emeritus Faculty:
Dieter Christensen. (Ph.D., Free University, Berlin 1957) Professor of Music; History of ethnomusicology; Balkans and West Asia: Turkey, Kurdistan, and Oman.
Email: dc22@columbia.edu

Selected Other Music Department Faculty*
Susan Boynton. Medieval music; gender.
Brad Garton. Composer. Director, Computer Music Center. Music and technology.
Giuseppe Gerbino. Early Italian opera and madrigal; music and literature; sociology of music.
Fred Lerdahl. Composer/theorist. Music and language. Cognitive science.
George Lewis. Musician/composer/improviser/historian; Avant-garde musics. Music and technology.

Selected Faculty in Other Columbia or Barnard Departments*
Lila Abu-Lughod. Gender and poetics; feminist theory; Middle East.
Myron Cohen. Social organization; family structure; nationalism; China.
Elaine Combs-Schilling. Gender; performance; opera; Morocco.
E. Valentine Daniel. Semiotics anthropology; culture and violence; India and Sri Lanka.
Farah Griffin. African-American literature, music, and politics.
Marilyn Ivy. Modernity; narrative; post-structuralism; Japan.
Brian Larkin. Media, technology, Islam, West Africa. (Barnard College)
Robert O'Meally. African-American literature and arts; Jazz and American culture.
John Pemberton. Performance; colonial history; Indonesia.
Michael Taussig. Violence and the State; Experimental ethnography. Performance. Latin America.

* These lists are selective, including faculty members who have worked closely with students in the Ethnomusicology graduate program in recent years. Columbia has many more faculty members in Music and other departments who might be of significant interest to individual students. Please visit the Columbia Directory or the Columbia University List of Schools and Departments to find out about other faculty members of interest. Bear in mind that students at Columbia also have access to courses and faculty members at the City University of New York and New York University.