Lila Ellen Gray
Assistant Professor
BA (New College of Florida 1993)
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies (Duke 1998)
MA Music (Duke 2000)
PhD Cultural Anthropology (Duke 2005)
Lila Ellen Gray joined the Columbia faculty in 2005. Her research interests include: music and place, music and gender, poetics, performance, fado, urban cultural studies and the anthropology/ethnomusicology of Europe. She is currently working on a book based on ethnographic work on amateur fado performance in contemporary Lisbon. She has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Luso-American Foundation and the Council for European Studies. In 2004-05 she was a resident fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Selected Publications:
"Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade." Ethnomusicology 51 (1).
"The 'country' in the city, the 'country' as city: fado's city." In Songs out of Place: Global Country, eds. Aaron Fox and C. Yano (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming)
"Recent Recording Releases: A Review Essay." World of Music 46: 3 (2004)
Graduate Courses Taught:
G8412 Field Methods I
G8413 Field Methods II
G9402 Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Performance: Theory and Ethnography
Proseminar in Ethnomusicology: Contemporary Musical Ethnography
Graduate/Undergraduate Courses Taught:
G6420/V3420 The Social Science of Music Undergraduate Courses Taught:
V3432 Music and Place
Office: 802 Dodge
Office phone: (212) 854-7183
Mail Code: 1815
email @columbia.edu: Â leg2114
