Ethnomusicology at Columbia University

Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology at Columbia

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Ethnomusicology Current Courses, News & Events

 

For detailed information about the Ethnomusicology graduate program and The Center for Ethnomusicology, please visit the Center's website at www.ethnocenter.org

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AREA FACULTY MEMBERS

Aaron A. Fox
Associate Professor of Music
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Ethnomusicology Area Committee Chair (2012-13)
 
Kevin Fellezs
Assistant Professor of Music
PhD, History of Consciousness (American Studies), University of California at Santa Cruz

Lila Ellen Gray
Associate Professor of Music

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Ana Maria Ochoa
Associate Professor of Music
Director, Center for Ethnomusicology
PhD in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University

John Szwed
Professor of Music and Jazz Studies

Director, Center for Jazz Studies
PhD in Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio State University

Christopher J. Washburne
Associate Professor of Music
Director, Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University    

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS AT COLUMBIA WITH ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AFFILIATIONS            

Jessica Schwartz
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music
PhD, Music, New York University

Tyler Bickford
Mellon Core Teaching Fellow
PhD, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University

ENSEMBLE DIRECTORS AND MUSIC ASSOCIATES

Louise Sasaki, Noriko Sasaki, & Yoichi Fukui
Directors, Columbia University Gagaku Ensemble
(for more information on our Gagaku program click here)

EMERITUS FACULTY
Dieter Christensen
Director, Center for Ethnomusicology, and Professor of Music, 1971-2005
(Visit Prof. Christensen's website)

PROGRAMS OFFERED: MA, PhD, undergraduate courses.

ONLINE RESOURCES AND LINKS     

News & Events in Ethnomusicology

Tyler Bickford Appointed Assistant Professor of English at Pittsburgh

The Department of Music congratulates ethnomusicology graduate program alumnus Tyler Bickford (PhD, 2011, With Distinction), who has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (in Children's Literature and Childhood Studies) at the University of Pittsburgh.  Dr. Bickford has been a Core Lecturer teaching Contemporary Civilization at Columbia since 2011, and was awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching (Columbia's highest honor for a graduate student instructor). He is also a past winner of the Lise Waxler Prize (SEM) and the Hewitt Pataleoni Prize (MACSEM).

Dr. Bickford's Columbia ethnomusicology dissertation, entitled "Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren," is an ethnographic study of the media ecology of K–8 schoolchildren at a small, rural, public school in New England.

You can read an article about Dr. Bickford in the Columbia Spectator here. Dr. Bickford's personal website (with several of his publications) is here.

Prof. Kevin Fellezs Co-Winner of 2012 Woody Guthrie Book Award from IASPM (US)

The Department of Music warmly congratulates Professor Kevin Fellezs, whose book, Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion, is this year's Co-Winner of the International Association For Popular Music's Woody Guthrie Book Award. In making the award, The awards committee observed, in making the award,  it considers Birds of Fire "the most accomplished monograph of the contenders. It is an engaging, well researched and argued interdisciplinary study of a long vilified musical movement . . . [and] a crucial contribution to jazz studies and rock studies, but most importantly it de-stablilizes the concept of genre itself."

 

Prof. Ellen Gray Wins Jaap Kunst and Richard Waterman Prizes from Society for Ethnomusicology

At the recent national meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Professor Ellen Gray (Ethnomusicology) has been awarded two major prizes for her groundbreaking 2011 article "Fado's City" (Anthropology and Humanism 36(2): 141-163).   The article was awarded the prestigious Jaap Kunst Prize by the Society, in recognition of "the most significant article in ethnomusicology written by a member of the Society" in the prior year.  It was also awarded the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize by the Popular Music Section of the SEM. 

The Department of Music warmly congratulates Professor Gray!

Gagaku Program Featured in "On Campus" (University Home Page)

The Columbia University Gagaku program is profiled this week in an article by Nicholas Obourn in the "On Campus" news section of the University's main website. The article is entitled: Healing the Universe With Japan’s Ancient Court Music.

The article includes a video profile of the Gagaku program:
http://blip.tv/play/hNVhgvDMNwA.html?p=1

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