TEACHING AND ADVISING ACTIVITIES
Courses Designed, Developed, and Taught since Fall 2011
SUMR 1007 (Performing Arts and Community Engagement in Uganda).
MUSC 0134 (Introduction to World Music, redesigned and renamed What in the World is Music?).
MUSC 0244 (African Music and Dance Performance).
MUSC 0235 (Introduction to Field and Lab Techniques in Ethnomusicology, redesigned and renamed Music Ethnography).
MUSC 0236 (Introduction to African Music, redesigned and renamed African Soundscapes).
MUSC 0334, formerly MUSC 0234 (Music in World Cultures).
MUSC 0400 (Ethnomusicological Approaches and Methods, redesigned and renamed, Approaches to Music Research, redesigned and renamed Approaches to Music Inquiry).
FYSE 1484 (World Musical Instruments).
FYSE 1545 (African Musical Lifestyles).
MUSC 0205E (Performance Lab – Afropop).
Theses, Senior Projects, and/or Independent Studies Supervised
Winter 2021-Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Modalities of Meaning: The Production and Negotiation of Musical Significance in Bella Ciao.” MUSC Senior thesis by Ssassi Massimo ’22.
Winter 2022 * Advisor, “Literature, Music, and Interconnection: Art as a Practice in Plurality.” MUSC Independent study by Ryo Nishikubo ’23.
Fall 2021-Winter 2022 * Second Reader, “Una Nueva Combinación Mundial, Balkaton.” IGS Senior thesis by Sergiu White ’22.
Fall 2021 * Advisor, “Literature Review for ‘Modalities of Meaning: The Production and Negotiation of Musical Significance in Bella Ciao.’” MUSC Independent Study by Ssassi Massimo ’22.
Fall 2020-Spring 2021 * Second Reader, “Political Ecology and Environmental Justice in the Selenga River Basin: Water Governance and Musical Culture in Mongolia and Siberia.” Honors IGS thesis by Irene Fernald ’21.
Summer 2021-Present * Committee member, “Bongo Flava Nation: The Confluence of Politics and Popular Music in Tanzania.” Ph.D. dissertation by Lucas Avidan, UCLA.
Fall 2020-Spring 2021 * Advisor, “Musical Performance, Storytelling, and Memory at Eastview in Middlebury.” MUSC Senior thesis by Dylan Healy ’21.
Spring 2020 * Second Reader, “Musical Memory: Nass el-Ghiwane and their Influence on Moroccan Culture and Identity.” MUSC Senior project (podcast) by Evan Mercer ’20.
Spring 2019 * Co-advisor, “Nāda Yoga & the Musical Brain: Kīrtana Composition and Paper.” Senior independent study by Zoe Moynihan ’19.
Spring 2018 * Advisor, “Todos Perdidos: A Composition for Big Band.” Original composition by Jack Herscowitz ’20.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Advisor, “African Music Performance in the American Academy: Capital Exchange, Institutional Dynamics, and the Challenges of Representation.” MUSC senior thesis by Dante Francomano ’15. Based on ethnographic research in Cameroon, supported by a Mellon Foundation Research grant.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Advisor, “Signs, Sounds, and Hip-Hop Slang: Tanzanian Bongo Flava and Its Relationship to the American Music Business.” MUSC senior thesis by Lucas Avidan ’15.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Advisor, “The Transaction of Power and Expression of Cultural Values in African Musical Pedagogy.” MUSC senior project by Dante Francomano ’15.
Fall 2014-Spring 2014 * Advisor, “Modern Interpretations of Traditional Ugandan Xylophone Music.” MUSC senior project by Erik Benepe ’14.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Revolición to Reguetón: Popular Music and Cultural Change in Modern Cuba.” LAS senior thesis by William Hardcastle ’12.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Second reader, “Reframing Agency and Right This Way.” DANC independent project by Sarah Chapin ’12.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Second reader, “Constructing the Legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Revolutionary Press in the French Revolution of 1789.” EUS thesis by Allison LaCroix ’12.
Student Conference/Symposium Papers Supervised and Sponsored
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “From Italian Folk Traditions to TikTok Feeds: Problematizing Assumptions of Authorship through the Dynamic History of Bella Ciao.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Massimo Sassi ’22, virtual, Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “‘Soy Latina, Baby’: Definitions Regarding the New Owners of Reggaeton.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Sergiu White ’22, virtual.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Buryat Musical Culture as a Source of Environmental Rights.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Irene Fernald ’22, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, virtual.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Music as Literature: Challenging Unidirectional Conceptions of Meaning in Art.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Ryo Nishikubo ’23, virtual.
Spring 2021 * Advisor, “The Music of Margot Loyola and Luis Advis: Model of Memory and Creation in the ‘Nueva Canción Chilena’” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Jack Herscowitz ’20, virtual, Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2018 * Advisor, “Todos Perdidos: A Composition for Big Band.” Presented at the Middlebury College Annual Spring Student Symposium by Jack Herscowitz ’20, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Advisor, “Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz.” Presented at the Middlebury College Annual Spring Student Symposium by Jack Herscowitz ’20, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Advisor, “Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “African Music Performance in the American Academy: Capital Exchange, Institutional Dynamics, and the Challenges of Representation.” Presented as part of the Middlebury Mellon/Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs CGA Research Grant Presentation Series by Dante Francomano ’15. Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “The Economics of Popular Music: Exchange and Monetary Gain in the Tanzanian Bongo Flava Music Business” by Lucas Avidan ’15. Presented at the Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Dante Francomano ’15, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “Matatizo” and Kenyans’ Shared Political History: A Nation’s ‘Problems’ Revisited in Song.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Julia Paolillo ’16, Providence, RI.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “A Voice of Their Own: Bongo Flava Music and Youth Identity in Contemporary Tanzania.” Presented at Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Lucas Avidan ’15, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “A Voice of Their Own: Bongo Flava Music and Youth Identity in Contemporary Tanzania.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Lucas Avidan ’15, Norton, MA. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “The Gourd-Resonated Musical Bow in Southern Africa: Traditional and Neo-Traditional Playing Style.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Jacob Wyse ’14, Norton, MA.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “Playing from the Same Horn: The Context and Racial Politics behind the Musics of Louis Armstrong and Hugh Masekela.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Dante Francomano ’15, Norton, MA.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “The Transaction of Power in Ugandan Musical Pedagogy.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Dante Francomano ’15, Brunswick, ME. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “Conflict Resolution in Traditional Ugandan Music.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Tiffany Ting ’14, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “The Therapeutic Value of Ugandan Musical Performance.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Olivia Case ’15, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Watoto Child Care Ministries: An Examination of Orphan Choirs in Uganda.” Presented at Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Hannah Dietrich ’14, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Popular Music and Society in Cuba.” Presented at the Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by William Hardcastle ’12, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Watoto Child Care Ministries: An Examination of Orphan Choirs in Uganda.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Hannah Dietrich ’14, Medford, MA.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Violin in Carnatic and Western Classical Music Traditions.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Nicole Hansen ’12, Medford, MA. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Capoeira: Music and Dance of Resistance and Brotherhood.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Taylor Bickford ’14, Medford, MA.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Isicathamiya: Missionary Influence on South African A cappella Music.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Catherine Charnov ’12, Medford, MA.
Out-of-Class Learning Activities/Residencies Organized/Presenters Hosted
Spring 2021 * Virtual residency by ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Clendinning.
Fall 2019 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Peter Hoesing.
Spring 2018 * Korean music concert by the Chunhogarang Ensemble.
Spring 2018 * Brazilian music lecture-demonstration by Hamilton Pinheiro.
Spring 2018 * West African music concert by John Hughes.
Spring 2018 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Carlos Odria and the Carlos Odria Ensemble.
Fall 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Frank Gunderson.
Spring 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Lynnsey Weissenberger.
Winter 2017 * Indiana classical music performances by Veena and Devesh Chandra.
Winter 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist William Cheng.
Fall 2016 * Residency by shaman Zacciah Blackburn.
Fall 2016 * Student field trip to Sunreed Instruments, Ascutney.
Spring 2015 * Residency by Ugandan percussionist Richard Sewagudde.
Spring 2015 * Co-organizer, UMOJA’s Annual AMKA Conference.
Spring 2015 * Co-host, Nile Project.
Spring 2014 * Co-organizer UMOJA’s Annual AMKA Conference.
Spring 2014 * Taikoza Japanese Musical Ensemble.
Spring 2014 * Dr. Joseph Hellweg.
Fall 2013 * Co-host and interviewer of artist and social advocate Angelique Kidjo.
Winter 2013 * Residency by Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi.
Fall 2012 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan.
Spring 2012 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza.
Spring 2012 * Residency by Guinean musician and dancer Soriba “Simbo”.
Spring 2012 * Residency by Balla Kouyate & World Vision.
Spring 2012 * Residency by the Somali-Bantu Wedding Band.