Thompson, Dan

(BA in Music Theory from the University of Vermont; MA and MPhil in Ethnomusicology from Columbia) has completed and defended a dissertation on “The Role of Music in the Creation and Maintenance of Irish Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century New York City”. His primary research area is in Irish music, with secondary interests in American and British rock (particularly the Second British Invasion). Other areas of interests are music and postmodernism and music and aesthetics. Publications include: "The Ingredients of a Masterpiece", Current Musicology 65, 2002, and reviews of “Sweeney's Dream: Fiddle Tunes from County Sligo, Ireland” (Smithsonian Folkways) and “Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England” (Smithsonian Folkways) in Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 33, 2001. He has worked as an instructor at Columbia and Brooklyn College and as a guest lecturer at Columbia, The Juilliard School, and Manhattan School of Music. He has been the head editor of Current Musicology and served as acting director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia.
dt36@columbia.edu