lesgay@utk.edu

PhD Columbia University, 1991

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

hcethnomus@aol.com

PhD Columbia University, 1977

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

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"

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@unt.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1994

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

sp25@columbia.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1992

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

kfikents@ramapo.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1996

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

travieso@uchicago.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1998

“Performance and Musical Meaning: Analyzing 'Jazz' on the New York Scene"

ethnomuse@yahoo.com

PhD, Columbia University, 1992

"Koo Nimo and His Circle: A Ghanaian Musician in Ethnomusicological Perspective"

uccmusic@saoas.org

PhD, Columbia University, 1988

"The Music Behavior in Dagaba Immigrants in Tarkwa, Ghana: A Study of Situational Change"

sturman@email.arizona.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1987

"Zarzuela in New York: Contributions of Lyric Theatre to Hispanic Identity"

cjw5@columbia.edu

PhD, Columbia University, 1999

“Salsa in New York: A Musical Ethnography"

makandal@verizon.net

PhD, Columbia University, 1991

"Music Folklore among Haitians in New York: Staged Representations and the Negotiation of Identity"

DrDawnn@aol.com

PhD, Columbia University 1997

"'Hip-hop culture' in New York City: The role of verbal musical performance in defining a community"

(BA from the University of Michigan with a double major in Philosophy and Music; PhD in Ethnomusicology, Columbia) wrote his MA thesis on "Soh Daiko: Negotiation and Construction of an Asian American Identity." This thesis focused on the difficulties found in presenting a unified pan-Asian identity while performing a uniquely Japanese art form. His dissertation is entitled "The Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens: An Acoustemology of Place and Identity in an Ethnic Church," and was sponsored by Prof. Fox. It was defended in May, 2004. His academic service has included teaching Music Humanities for the Department of Music at Columbia and working as a TA for Asian Music Humanities. He has been a senior editor for Current Musicology. His article “’She’s really become Japanese now!': Taiko Drumming and Asian American identifications” was published in the Winter 2001 issue of Asian Music. His dissertation, sponsored by Prof. Fox, is an ethnography of a Korean Presbyterian church community in Queens, New York.  read more »