Year

Name

Field

Dissertation title

2009

Pillich, Simeon

Ethno

Invisible Virtuosi: The Deskilling and Reskilling of Hollywood Film and Television Studio Musicians

2009

Dickerson, Valerie

Ethno

Are Those Congas in the Pulpit?: Hymns, Alabanza y Adoración (Praise and Worship) Music, and the Evangelical Subculture of Western Cuba

2009

Janeczko, Jeffrey

Ethno

"Beyond Klezmer": Redefining Jewish Music for the Twenty-first Century

2009

Rancier, Megan

Ethno

The Kazakh Qyi-Qobyz: Biography of an Instrument, Story of a Nation

2008

Ulaby, Laith

Ethno

Performing the Past: Sea Music in the Arab Gulf States

2008

Sharp, Charles

Ethno

Improvization, Identity and Tradition: Experimental Music Communities in Los Angeles

2008

Johnson, Birgitta

Ethno

"Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" Music and Worship in African American Megachurches of Los Angeles, California

2008

Miller, Kevin

Ethno

A Community of Sentiment: Indo-Fijian Music and Identity Discourse in Fiji and its Diaspora

2007

Lande, Liv

Ethno

Innovating Musical Tradition in
Japan: Negotiating Transmission, Identity, and Creativity in the
Sawai Koto School

2007

Lu, Hsin-chun (Tasaw)

Ethno

Constructing Musical Identity among Burmese Classical Musicians in Burma and its Diasporas

2007

Wheeler, Jesse

Ethno

Dark Matter: Towards an Architecture of Rock, Place, and Identity in Brasilia's Utopian Underground

2007

Yu, Youngmin

Ethno

Musical Performance of Korean Identities in North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and the United States

2007

Patterson, Karin

Ethno

Expressions of Africa in Los Angeles Public Performance, 1781-1994

2006

Ho, Meilu

Ethno

The Liturgical Music of Pusti Marg of India: An Embryonic Form of the Classical Tradition

2006

Wong, Connie Oi-Yan

Ethno

Singing the Gospel Chinese Style: "Praise and Worship" Music in the Asian Pacific

2006

Daughtry, J. Martin

Ethno

The Intonation of Intimacy: Ethics, Emotion, Metaphor, and Dialog Among Contemporary Russian Bards

2006

de Mel, Vasana

Ethno

Music as Symbol, Music as Emissary: A Study of the Kalypso and the Baila of Sri Lanka

2006

Ritter, Jonathan

Ethno

A River of Blood: Music, Memory, and Violence in Ayacucho, Peru

2006

Chen, Chiung-Chi

Ethno

From the Sublime to the Obscene: The Performativity of Popular Religion in Taiwan

2006

Wong, Chuen-Fung

Ethno

Peripheral Sentiments: Encountering Uyghur Music in Urumchi

2006

Merchant-Henson, Tanya

Ethno

Constructing Musical Tradition in Uzbek Institutions

2006

Van Buren, Kathleen

Ethno

Stealing Elephants, Creature Futures: Exploring Uses of Music and Other Arts for Community Education in Nairobi, Kenya

2006

Lubach, Kaye

Ethno

Tradition, Ideology and the History of Hindustani Music in the United States in the 20th Century

2006

Callen, Jeff

Ethno

French Fries in the Tagine: Re-imagining Moroccan Popular Music

2005

Bishop, Jack

Ethno

Who Are the Pirates: Power Relationships in a Globalized Music Market, Ethnomusicological Perspectives

2005

Moufarrej, Guilnard

Ethno

Music and the Ritual of Death Among the Maronite Christians in Lebanon

2005

Talusan, Mary

Ethno

Cultural Localization and Transnational Flows: Music in the Magindanaon Communities of the Philippines

2005

Hill, Juniper

Ethno

From Ancient to Avant-garde to Global: Creative Processes and Institutionalization in Finnish Contemporary Folk Music

2005

Browne, Kimasi

Ethno

Soul or Nothing: the Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul Scene

2005

Corin, Amy

Ethno

Queer Country, Line Dance Nazis, and a Hollywood Barn Dance:
Country Music and the Performance of Identity in Los Angeles, California

2005

Schrag, Brian

Ethno

How Bamileke Music-Makers Create Culture in Cameroon

2003

Amigo, Cristian

Ethno

Latino Music, Identity, and Ethnicity: Two Case Studies

2003

Mijatovic, Branislava

Sys Mus

Music and Politics in Serbia (1989-2000)

2003

Briggs, Ray

Ethno

Memphis Jazz: African American Musicians, Jazz Community and the Politics of Race

2003

Truchly, Veronica

Ethno

The World at our Doorstep: The Politics of Multicultural Spectacle

2003

Wooley, Amy

Ethno

Conjuring Utopia: The Appalachian String Band Revival

2002

Seeman, Sonia

Ethno

'You're Roman!': Music and Identity in Turkish Roman Communities

2002

Alviso, Ric

Ethno

Musical Aspects of the Corrido, the War on Drugs and Their Convergence in a Federal Prison

2002

Connell, Andrew

Ethno

Jazz Brasileiro?: Musica Instrumental Brasileira and the Representation of Identity in Rio de Janeiro

2002

Fatone, Gina

Ethno

Making Hands Sing: Vocal-to-Motor Transfer of Melody Within Classical Scottish Highland Bagpiping and Selected Asian Instrumental Traditions in North America

2002

Hood, Kathleen

Ethno

Music and Memory in a Global Age: Wedding Songs of the Syrian Druzes

2001

Aoyagi, Takahiro

Sys Mus

Maqam Rast: Intervallic Ordering, Pitch Hierarchy, Performance, and Perception of a Melodic Mode in Arabic Music

2001

Castro, Christi-Anne

Ethno

Music, Politics, and the Nation at the Cultural Center of the Philippines

2001

Delgado, Kevin

Ethno

Iyesa: Afro-Cuban Music and Culture in Contemporary Cuba

2001

Feldman, Heidi

Ethno

Black Rhythms of Peru: Staging Cultural Memory Through Music and Dance, 1956-2000

2001

Keister, Jay

Ethno

Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo

2001

Li, Guangming

Ethno

Onomatopoeia and Beyond: A Study of the Luogu Jing of Beijing Opera

2001

Reigle, Robert

Ethno

Sacred Music of Serieng Village, Papua New Guinea

2001

Sancho-Velazquez, Angeles

Sys Mus

The Legacy of Genius: Improvisation, Romantic Imagination, and the Western Musical Canon

2001

Vassilakis, Pantelis

Sys Mus

Perceptual and Physical Properties of Amplitude Fluctuation and their Musical Significance

2000

Elliott, JanClaire

Sys Mus

Amneris and Aida: Their Vocal and Rhetorical Portraits Configured by Tessitura

2000

Henry, Clarence

Ethno

Religious and Musical Expressions of Candomble in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and Los Angeles, California

1999

Borgo, David

Ethno

Reverence for Uncertainty: Chaos, Order, and the Dynamics of Musical Free Improvisation

1999

Catalano, Roberto

Ethno

Mediterranean World-Music: Experiencing Sicilian-Arab Sound

1999

Chuse, Loren

Ethno

Women in Cante Flamenco: Music and the Negotiation of Identity

1999

Frishkopf, Michael

Ethno

Sufism, Ritual, and Modernity in Egypt: Language Performance as an Adaptive Strategy

1999

Hajda, John

Sys Mus

The Effect of Time-Variant Acoustical Properties on Orchestral Instrument Timbres

1999

Moore, Charles

Ethno

William Christopher Handy and 'Uraeus Mi:' A Bantu-Centered Philosophical and Intracultural Assessment

1999

Parnes, Sam

Ethno

A History of Filipino Rondalla Music and Musicians in Southern California

1998

Attinello, Paul

Sys Mus

Interpretation of Chaos: A Critical Analysis of Meaning in European Avant-Garde Vocal Music, 1958-61

1998

Dickerson, Dwight

Ethno

Central Avenue Meets Hollywood: The Amalgamation of the Black and White Musicians Unions in Los Angeles

1998

Holmes, Michael

Ethno

The Music of the St. Brigid Catholic Church Choir: African-American Gospel in a Catholic Liturgy

1998

Kidula, Jean Ngoya

Ethno

Sing and Shine: Religious Popular Music in Kenya

1997

Igarashi, Kenneth

Ethno

A Post-Modern Analysis of Noise: A Musical Genre Incorporating Improvisation and Eclecticism

1997

Simonett, Helena

Ethno

Loud and Proud: The Social History and Cultural Power of Mexican Banda Music

1997

Wu, Jia-Yu

Ethno

Between Traditional Musical Practices and Contemporary Musical Life: A Study of the Karaoke Phenomenon in Taiwan

1996

Colicci, Giuseppina

Ethno

Invocation in a Fisherman's Festival for the Madonna del Lume: San Diego, California and Porticello, Italy

1996

O'Connell, John

Ethno

Alaturka Revisited: Style as History in Turkish Vocal Performance

1996

Wenten, I Nyoman

Ethno

The Creative World of Ki Wasitodipuro: The Life and Work of a Javanese Gamelan Composer

1996

Williams, Maria

Ethno

Alaskan Native Music and Dance: The Spirit of Survival

1995

Bryant, Wanda

Ethno

Virtual Musical Communities

1995

Chao-Chin, Nancy Hao-Ming

Ethno

Twentieth Century Chinese Vocal Music -- Its Development and Nationalistic
Characteristics Since the May Fourth Movement to 1945

1995

Lipscomb, Scott

Sys Mus

Cognition of Musical and Visual Accent Structure Alignment in Film and Animation

1995

Mahoney, Therese

Ethno

The White Parasol and the Red Star: The Lao Classical Music Culture in a Climate of Change

1995

Makubuya, James

Ethno

Endongo Bowl Lyre of Uganda: Its Significance in the Culture of the Baganda

1995

Sonneborn, D. A.

Ethno

Music and Meaning in American Sufism: The Ritual of Dhikr at Sami Mahal, a Chishtiyya-Derived Sufi Center

1994

Apan, Valeriu

Ethno

The Panpipe (Nai) in Contemporary Romanian Folk Music

1994

Okazaki, Yoshiko

Ethno

Music, Identity, and Religous Change Among the Toba Batak People in North Sumatra

1994

Pacheco, Javier

Ethno

History, Identity, and the New Song Movement in Mexico City: A Study in Urban Ethnomusicology

1994

Sullivan, Susan Clark

Ethno

Orientations in Ethnomusicological Analysis: An Exploration of Structuralist Theories

1993

Bakan, Michael

Ethno

Balinese Kreasi Baleganjur: An Ethnography of Musical Experience

1993

Goldblatt, Elizabeth

Ethno

Vajrayana Buddhism as Viewed Through a Tibetan Ritual, the Padmasambhava Ceremony

1993

Romero-Hymer, Brenda

Ethno

The Matachines Music and Dance in San Juan Pueblo and Alcalde, New Mexico: Contexts and Meanings

1993

Stern, Theodore

Sys Mus

Comparative Analysis of the Berlin Schreyerpfeifen and Contemporary
Reproductions as Related to the Performance of Early Music

1993

Sugarman, Jane

Ethno

Engendering Song: Singing and the Social Order at Prespa Albanian Weddings