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Magalhaes, Luiz Cesar Marques

October 2, 2008 by LuizCesarMarque...

PhD, Columbia University, 1998

“From Peasant to Indian: A Study of the Tore Ritual Songs and the Creation of Tradition in a Brazilian Indian Community.” Currently teaching at Universidade Federal da Bahia.

De Carvalho, João Soeiro

October 2, 2008 by JoaoSoeiroDeCarvalho

PhD, Columbia University, 1997

“Choral Musics in Maputo, Mozambique: Urban Adaptation, Nation Building and the Performance of Identity.” Currently teaching at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Helbig, Adriana

July 25, 2008 by ahelbig

Adriana Helbig (BA in German and Music with honors from Drew University in 1997; MA and MPhil in Ethnomusicology from Columbia) has completed and defended (May 2005) her dissertation, which analyzes the influences of international development aid on Roma music traditions in Ukraine. Her research interests include the relationship between music and politics, music and social movements, music and migration, and issues of race, class, and gender in Eastern European hip hop. She works with Roma non-government organizations in Ukraine, translates the largest Internet-based Roma newspaper in the CIS into English (www.romaniyag.uz.ua/en), and consults members of the Ukrainian government on national minority affairs. In 2006, she participated as a policy analyst in the Civil Society and Democracy in Ukraine project sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C. Her published works in English include an article titled “The Cyberpolitics of Music in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution” Current Musicology 82; a book chapter titled “Changing Discourses of Race and Place: NGOs, European Integration, and the Roma in Ukraine” In Civil Society and Democracy in Ukraine. Edited by Paul D’Anieri, Dominique Arel, and Blair Ruble. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, forth.); and a book review of The World of Mykola Lysenko: Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ukraine. By Taras Filenko and Tamara Bulat. (Toronto: Ukraine Millennium Foundation Press, 2001). World of Music Vol. 48 (1): 100-102. Her article “Ukraine: Performing Politics” published in Transitions Online No. 156 (February 27, 2006) was reprinted in Italian, Hungarian, and Russian translation on various policy websites and list-services. A member of SEM and ICTM, she is also affiliated with the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University and will teach a course on post-socialist music traditions in the Spring of 2007. A classical pianist who received her training at the Vienna Conservatory, she has taught the Music Humanities course at Columbia University and presently teaches Music History at Fordham University. Her doctoral research in Ukraine was sponsored by a Fulbright U.S. Student grant.
Email: anh5@columbia.edu

Click here to download Adriana’s dissertation titled “Play for me, Old Gypsy: Music as Political Resource in the Roma Rights Movement in Ukraine”

 

Sakakeeny, Matt

July 25, 2008 by msakakeeny

Matt Sakakeeny (B. Mus., Peabody Conservatory 1994; M.A. in Musicology, Tulane University 2004; M.A. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 2005; Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 2008) is interested how music intersects with race, economics, and politics, particularly in the performance of African American music. Matt is living in New Orleans, where he is completing the dissertation "Instruments of Power: New Orleans Brass Bands and the Politics of Performance" with fellowship support from the National Science Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. His MA thesis, "American Afrobeat: Transnational, Intercultural, and Multiracial" was written in 2005. Previously, he worked as the co-producer of the public radio show American Routes in New Orleans. In Fall 2008, he will be taking a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Tulane University.
Email: mks2104@olumbia.edu
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Luker, Morgan

July 25, 2008 by mluker

(B.A. 2001, Music History, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A. 2003, M.Phil 2005, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University.)

Morgan’s research interests include cultural policy, the cultural industries, music and economic development, cultural tourism, transnationalism, aesthetics, and the uses of music history. He has conducted research on several musical genres, including contemporary Argentine tango, “downtown” improvised music, and world music. Morgan’s undergraduate work on avant-garde bassist and producer Bill Laswell received the Hilldale award for undergraduate research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His M.A. thesis, “Tonight at Tonic: Practicing Place in a New York Art World” (2003), examined how musical values were cultivated for non-institutionalized “high art” musics by a transnational avant-garde music community centered on the nightclub Tonic, and how that community made sense of the rapid economic transformation the neighborhood in which the club was physically and symbolically emplaced was then undergoing.

Morgan’s current dissertation research focuses on music and cultural policy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he will be conducting fieldwork until the fall of 2007. Taking contemporary tango as its case, this project concentrates on the contested interconnections between the activities of musicians who have self-consciously returned to tango as means of re-exploring and re-articulating their identities as Argentines following the 2001 economic crisis and the cultural policies of the city government of Buenos Aires which channel and promote tango as an economic resource for the city and its citizens, primarily through programs that aim to develop the local cultural industries and cultural tourism. An article on themusical side of this equation, “Tango Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina,” will appear in the forthcoming issue of Latin American Music Review (28:1, Spring/Summer 2007). Morgan has presented his work at the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), the American Anthropological Society (AAA), the US and Latin American branches of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), and elsewhere. At Columbia, Morgan has served as the assistant editor of Current Musicology and as an instructor in the Music Humanities core course.
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Landies, Maurea

July 25, 2008 by mlandies

(BA: New York University 1992, MA and MPhil, Columbia University) wrote her Masters thesis, "African Cuban Sacred Music in Performance: Felipe García Villamil and Grupo Emikeké of New York," on the relationship between ritual space and African Cuban liturgical music in the North American urban context. Her dissertation in progress is an exploration of a Haitian immigrant processional genre that serves to affirm shifting ethnic, religious and class identities in the Dominican Republic. It is entitled "Gaga in the Dominican Republic: The Construction of Identities through Performance." Her interests include ritual musics of the African diaspora and transnational musics in the context of migration within the Caribbean region, and Caribbean immigration to the United States.
Email: mel23@columbia.edu
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Keenan, Elizabeth

July 25, 2008 by ekeenan

(BA in Music History and Journalism from Loyola University; MA in Ethnomusicology, Columbia 2001; MPhil, Columbia, 2003; PhD, Columbia, 2008). Elizabeth has presented her work at a variety of conferences, including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, the International Association of Popular Music-US, the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, and Feminist Theory and Music. In 2008, she was awarded the Wong Tolbert Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology's Section on the Status of Women; in 2007 she was awarded the Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her interests include gender, politics, and popular music in the United States.  read more »

Eisenberg, Andrew

July 25, 2008 by aeisenberg

(B.M. from NYU in jazz performance) is currently conducting research for a dissertation on music (taarab, ngoma, and hip hop), acoustemology and ethnic identity politics in Mombasa, Kenya. The research is being supported by Fulbright-Hays and the Social Science Research Council, and is being conducted in consultation with the newly-formed Institute of Swahili Studies within the National Museums of Kenya.
Website: http://www.andreweisenberg.com
Email: aje11@columbia.edu
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Gay, Leslie

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

lesgay@utk.edu

PhD Columbia University, 1991

“Commitment, cohesion, and creative process: A study of New York City rock bands”

Hampton, Barbara

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

hcethnomus@aol.com

PhD Columbia University, 1977

“The Impact of Labor Migration on Music in Urban Ghana: The Case of Kpehe Gome”

Reyes, Adelaida

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

areyes1@nj.rr.com

PhD, Columbia University, 1975

"The Role of Music in the Interaction of Black Americans and Hispanos in New York City's East Harlem"

Corte-Real, Maria

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

saojose@eselx.ipl.pt

PhD Columbia University, 2000

"Cultural policy and musical expression in Lisbon in the transition from dictatorship to democracy (1960s--1980s)"

Murphy, John

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

murphy@unt.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1994

"Performing a Moral Vision: An Ethnography of Cavalo-Marinho, a Brazilian Music Drama"

Podstavsky, Sviatoslav

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

sp25@columbia.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1992

"Hausa Roko and Maroka: Social Dimensions of Professional Entertainment in Argungu, Northern Nigeria"

Fikentscher, Kai

July 17, 2006 by EthnoAdmin

kfikents@ramapo.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1996

"'You better work!': Music, Dance, and Marginality in Underground Dance Clubs of New York City"

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