Wilson, James Dale

(BM cum laude 1991 and MM 1993 from North Texas in Jazz Arranging and Music Theory; MA in Ethnomusicology from Columbia 1997 with a thesis titled "Fuzhou Flower Shops: Heat and Noise and the Fashioning of New Traditions”; MPhil 1999; PhD 2003). Dr. Wilson's dissertation, was sponsored by Prof. Fox, and was defended in December, 2003, is It is entitled “Dalang Yinyue She: Ritual Performance in the Transnational Context” Dr. Wilson is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Connecticut College. His dissertation research was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. He is a jazz pianist, and has twice taught the core course in Asian Music Humanities (East and Southeast Asia) at Columbia. He also served as senior editor and sat on the editorial board of Current Musicology. Duriing 2004, Dr. Wilson was a post-doctoral fellow in Asian Studies at Yale University.

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