Aplin, T. Chris

Ethnomusicology

Native American music, Native hip-hop, Woody Guthrie, Independent rock music production, Oklahoma, Central Plains musical identity and performance ("music from the margins"/"music from the midwest void")

Appert, Catherine

Ethnomusicology

African American secular music (especially hip hop);
hip hop and globalization; music and identity

Burchman, Sathya

Ethnomusicology

Javanese gamelan, Ghanaian music, Cuban music, the power and politics of academic representation, identity, the economy of culture

Carlson, Julius

Ethnomusicology and Musicology

Argentine folk music; (folk) music and technological mediation; "Jewish" music in Germany; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Cole, Abimbola

Ethnomusicology

Batswana popular music, South African popular music, global hip hop, medical ethnomusicology

Conner, Ron

Ethnomusicology

Northeast Brazilian sacred and festival traditions (especially maracatu cearense); música popular brasileira (MPB), African diaspora in Latin America and Caribbean; intersections of nationalism, race, and gender/sexuality; memory and political violence; historical ethnomusicology.

Ron's website

Coventry, Chloe

Ethnomusicology

Local rock music scenes, music criticism/journalism, Carnatic music, Iranian alternative music, music and visual art intersections, ornamentation, new-age/yoga/inspirational music

Dirksen, Rebecca

Ethnomusicology

Haiti, the Caribbean, diaspora studies; power and politics; music of social justice and change; record industry alternatives to the majors and socially conscious indie lables; music used in Vodou and Caribbean/Latin American roots-based transcendental religions; creative processes; art music.

Edwards, James

Systematic Musicology

Comparative aesthetics, musical hermeneutics, critical theory, and Japanese music

Frishkey, Amy

Ethnomusicology

Voice, phenomenological hermeneutics, globalism, electronic dance music, the Black Atlantic, Garifuna culture, the Balkans

Gonzalez, Beto

Ethnomusicology

Music of the African diaspora, Brazil, percussion, urbanism, globaliization, music and censorship, Latin American history

Beto's website

Gubner, Jennie

Ethnomusicology

Latin American music with a particular emphasis on tango, Sicilian music traditions and playing the violin

Guzman, Romeo

Ethnomusicology

Musics of Northern Africa, especially among the Amizigh and Gnawa; jazz music; Filipino music; music and consciousness

Romeo's website

Harbert, Ben

Ethnomusicology

Music in American prisons, music of the Near East, film, heavy metal

Ben's website

Hogan, Brian

Ethnomusicology

Percussion across the African Diaspora, concentrations in jazz and West African xylophone music

Brian's website

Hunt, Alice

Systematic Musicology

Interactions between musical experience and cultural knowledge; musical aesthetics; musical time; Indonesia; India; the West

Hynson, Meghan

Ethnomusicology

Balinese gender wayang music, Indonesian music in general, world music education and outreach, North Indian classical music

Meghan's website

Iyanaga, Michael

Ethnomusicology

Brazilian folk Catholicism, music of Northeast Brazil (esp. samba-de-roda), historical ethnomusicology, music and ritual, classical music as crime deterrent

Jeong, Yong Ha

Ethnomusicology

Korean music, syncretic traditions

Lucas, Ann

Ethnomusicology

Persian-speaking Near East, nationalism, historical ethnomusicology

Macy, Elizabeth

Ethnomusicology

Music and tourism, music of Bali, music of New Orleans, issues of gender and representation, popular music

Mavroidi, Martha

Ethnomusicology

Music of the Balkans, Middle East and C. Asia, music and identity, contemporary music and improvisation

McCabe, Shannon

Ethnomusicology

Latin American music with an emphasis on son jarocho; integrating Ethnomusicology with Music Education

McFarlane, Marisa

Ethnomusicology

Popular music and spirituality; Transnationalization and global studies; the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America; Reggae Dancehall music and culture in Brazil.

Mora, Amalia

Ethnomusicology

Vocal Music, South Indian Classical and non-Classical, Indian Popular Music, Los Angeles "Vintage" Musical Communities Crooner/Vaudeville, Mexican American Car Show Oldies), Latin American Art Song/Dance, Music in Brothels, Nostalgia via Music, Aesthetics, Music and Literary Fiction, Individualism/Communality in music.

Morales, Melissa

Ethnomusicology

Amazonia; popular music; medical anthropology; aesthetics; applied ethnomusicology

Nesmith, Nakisha

Ethnomusicology

Latin America; South America, especially Brazil, with an emphasis on Afro-Brazilian music and dance-arts traditions; international hip-hop scene

Pacheco, Veronica S.

Ethnomusicology

Vernacular and sacred music of Latin America and Middle/Near East. Religious music within indigenous communities in Mexico; symbology and social communication; musical affect and representation; nationalism and minority groups

Poluha, Lauren

Ethnomusicology

Music of the Caribbean, African diasporic traditions, Belizean Garifuna culture, globalization, hybridity, music & identity, music & tourism, environmental issues/conservation

Raimondi, Julie

Ethnomusicology

Space and Place, Music in New Orleans, and Vernacular Musics of the Southern United States

Julie's website

Rancier, Megan

Ethnomusicology

American protest music, music and nationalism, Post-Soviet Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan

Megan's blog

Rodel, Angela

Ethnomusicology

Balkan folk music, especially Bulgarian women's choral music; punk rock; globalization; aesthetics

Roy, Jeff

Ethnomusicology

The music of North India, the relationships between music and the visual and literary arts, music and language, the violin, Acadian folk music

Salazar, Lauryn

Ethnomusicology

Latin American music with a focus on Mariachi

Silvers, Michael

Ethnomusicology

My interests are: the music of northeastern Brazil, the accordion, music and climate, music and migration, and virtual musical communities

Michael's website

Soto, Leticia

Ethnomusicology

Gender roles and music industry effects on Mexican music - a concentration on mariachi.

Stuffelbeam, Katharine

Ethnomusicology

African music, Dagbamba music of Northern Ghana, vocal/song traditions, gender studies, women and music, dance, percussion, tabla, twentieth century and contemporary musics.

Tran, Kim

Ethnomusicology

Contemporary music, music and other arts, music and politics, Vietnam

Kim's website

Vallejo, Jessie

Ethnomusicology

Native American and Latin American music, Music Education, Music as Social Justice, Mariachi, Violin Pedagogy, Arranging

Jessie's website

Warden, Nolan

Ethnomusicology

Afro-Cuban religious music and folkloric drumming, music of the Afro-Atlantic world, music of Mexico, transculturation, exoteric ethnomusicology, socio-cultural aspects of music education

Nolan's website

Wiens, Kathleen (Kate)

Ethnomusicology

Yellum, Iris

Ethnomusicology

North Indian classical music, music cognition, women and music, philosophy and aesthetics of music, religion and music, especially in the Middle East and South Asia.

Zanfagna, Christina

Ethnomusicology

African American sacred and popular music, especially hip hop and gospel rap; music and geography; urban studies; postcolonial theory; Afro-diasporic popular music and black aesthetics; flamenco