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

Cole, Abimbola

Ethnomusicology

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

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

Dickerson, Valerie

Ethnomusicology

Religious music of the African diaspora in America and the Caribbean; gospel, hymns, spirituals, Protestant music of Cuba, the music of santeria, music and spiritual expression

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

Iyanaga, Michael

Ethnomusicology

Music of the Brazilian Northeast (esp. Samba de Roda); music as crime deterrent; and history of jazz in the U.S.

Janeczko, Jeff

Ethnomusicology

Middle-Eastern music, Jewish music (Sephardic)

Jeong, Yong Ha

Ethnomusicology

Korean music, art bands, music and visual art intersections, epic storytelling traditions

Johnson, Birgitta

Ethnomusicology

African American music (especially gospel, soul and nu soul fusions) and music traditions of the African diaspora in the Caribbean and South America; Afro-Cuban percussion; musical change as a reflection of social and cultural change

Lande, Liv

Ethnomusicology

Japanese "new traditional" music (especially koto/shamisen music), systems of transmission/apprenticeship and their values, East Asian music cultures

Ethnomusicology

Burmese music, Southeast Asian music, psychology and music, individuality, diaspora

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

Research interests: Son jarocho, Latin American music, Mexico, salsa, flamenco, African mbira music, African diaspora

Miller, Kevin C.

Ethnomusicology

Musics of the South Asian Diaspora: Indo-American; Indo-Fijian; the Ramayana; issues of cultural identity; community and representation

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

Pillich, Simeon

Ethnomusicology

Popular music and technology, Caribbean music, African-American music, Jazz

Rabe, Gee

Ethnomusicology

Caribbean musics, Balkan musics, popular music

Raimondi, Julie

Ethnomusicology

New Orleans Brass Bands, American roots music, music of the African Diaspora, music in religion

Rancier, Megan

Ethnomusicology

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

Rodel, Angela

Ethnomusicology

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

Salazar, Lauryn

Ethnomusicology

Latin American music with a focus on Mariachi

Sharp, Charles

Ethnomusicology

American music, history, hermeneutics, aesthetics, Chinese music, improvisation, jazz, Korean music, Charles Sharp

Soto, Leticia

Ethnomusicology

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

Ulaby, Laith

Ethnomusicology

Jazz, Detroit (jazz, Motown, techno, hip-hop, booty-music), Arabic music, Islam, improvisation

Laith's website

Zanfagna, Christina

Ethnomusicology

African American sacred & popular music, especially hip-hop & gospel rap; global pop; flamenco; music & urban space