Curriculum Vitae

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Harvard University Department of Music
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African & African American Studies

Music Department Acting Chair (Spring 2002)

Fromm Music Foundation Acting Chair (Spring 2002)

Music Department Chair (1994–1999)

Professor of Music (1992–2001)

Fromm Music Foundation Chair (1994–1999)

Visiting Professor of Music (Fall 1991)

Wesleyan University Department of Music
Professor of Music (1990–1992)

Director of Graduate Studies (1990–1992)

New York University Department of Music
Associate Professor of Music; Coordinator, Urban Ethnomusicology Program (1982–1990 ; Assistant Professor 1982–1985)

Secondary faculty appointment: Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

Faculty, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Columbia University Department of Music
Assistant Professor of Music (1977–1983; leave of absence 1981–1983)

Hunter College , CUNY
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music (1980)

EDUCATION
University of Michigan :
Ph.D, Music: Musicology (1977)

Dissertation: "The Liturgical Music of the Falashas of Ethiopia"
M.A., Music (1972)

B.M., Voice,  with High Distinction (1970)

Northwestern University
(1966–1968 )

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
Visiting Research Scholar (1973–1975)

The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
Visiting Research Scholar (1972–1973)

ACADEMIC AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University (2001–2002)

Civitella Raniera Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (Summer 2001)

Bogliasco Fellow, The Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities:
Residency (17 November –15 December, 1997)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Division, Fellowship for University Teachers (1992–1993)

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Research Fellowship: Israel (1992–1993)

Bellagio Study and Conference Center Residency (5 May–7 June, 1989)

Republic New York Corporation, Research Grant: Syrian-Jewish musical tradition (1988–1990)

National Endowment for the Humanities: Research Division Fellowship (with Peter Jeffery), "Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant" (1986–1988)

New York University: Presidential Fellowship (Spring 1986)

National Foundation for Jewish Culture Post-Doctoral Publication Award (1986)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1981–1982)

Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities Summer Research Grants
(1978, 1980)

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant (1977)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1970–1971)

HONORS, AWARDS
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)

Finalist, Maurice Amado Foundation Award, National Jewish Book Award, Sephardic Studies (for Let Jasmine Rain Down) (1998)

Prize of the International Musicological Society  (for Music, Ritual, and Falasha History) (1988)

ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (for Music, Ritual, and Falasha History) (1987)

National Foundation for Jewish Culture Post–Doctoral Publication Award (for Music, Ritual, and Falasha History) (1986)

Columbia University, School of General Studies: Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching, (1982)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1970)

PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Editions
Soundscapes. Exploring Music in a  Changing World. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, in preparation.

Pain and Its Transformations. The Interface Between Biology and Culture. (Co-editor, with Sarah Coakley). Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, in preparation.

Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions. Insights from the Harvard Collection of Judaica Sound Recordings. Cambridge:  Harvard College Library, 2001.

Soundscapes.  Exploring  Music in a Changing World. Â  New York: W.W. Norton. 2001.

Let Jasmine Rain Down. Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, with 3 CDs, Instructor's Manual, and Soundscapes Classical.

Ethiopian Christian Chant. An Anthology (3 Volumes). First editor, in collaboration with Peter Jeffery. Madison, Wisconsin: A–R Editions, Inc., Vol. 1, 1993. Vol. 2, 1994, with CD. Vol. 3, 1997. Published with the assistance of subventions from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Musicological Society.

A Song of Longing. An Ethiopian Journey. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology (7 Volumes). Editor. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. Vol. 1 published in paperback, 1992, as Ethnomusicology. History, Definitions, and Scope.

Music, Ritual, and Falasha History. Monograph 17, Ethiopian Series, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1986. Second printing with new introduction, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1989.

Articles
“New Recipes for American Musical Studies.” American Music.  In press.

“Beyond the Images: Hearing Anne Eisner PutnamÂ’s Ituri Rainforest.” In Images of Congo : Anne EisnerÂ’s Art and Ethnography, 1946-1958  Ed., Christie McDonald. 5 Continents Editions, 2005.

"Music and Memory," Enciclopedia Della Musica Einaudi. Ed. Jean-Jacques Nattiez.  Turin: Casa Editrice  Einaudi, in press.

“Thinking About Music and Pain.” In Pain and its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture.  Eds. Sarah Coakley and Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, in preparation.

"The Work of an Ethnomusicologist."  The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 10, "The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools." Ed, Ruth M. Stone.  New York: Garland Publishing. 2002, pp. 67–75.

"Echoes from Beyond Europe's Borders: Music and the Beta Israel Transformation." The Honigberg Lectures. Ed., Philip Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

"Toward an Ethnomusicology of the Early Music Movement: Thoughts on Bridging Disciplines and Musical Worlds." Ethnomusicology vol. 45, No. 1 (Winter, 2001): 1–29.

"The Impact and Ethics of Musical Scholarship,"  In Redefining Music. Eds. Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 531–544.

"Notation and Oral Tradition in Africa."  The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. I, Africa. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 146–163. Reprinted in The Garland Handbook of African Music. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.

"'What's Up Doc'?  A View of a 'Reel' Musicologist." The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 81(2) 1997: 204–209.

"Athiopische Kirchenmusik." 1994.  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Sachteil 1. Ed. Ludwig Finscher. Kassel:  Barenreiter, pp. 936–942.

 "Ethiopia, Traditional Music and Orthodox Church Music." 2001.  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., Vol. 8. Ed., Stanley Sadie, London MacMillan , pp. 353–361.

 "Jewish Music:  Developments in the United States." 2001.  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., Vol. 13. Ed., Stanley Sadie, London MacMillan , pp. 73–74.

"Issues in the Study of Afroasiatic Musical Cultures." Proceedings of the 1992 Bellagio Conference on African Music and Dance. Ghana: Afram Publications. In press.

 "The Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition." In Shadows in the Field. Ed. Gregory F. Barz and Timothy J. Cooley. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 189–204.

"Crossing Boundaries in Music and Musical Scholarship: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology." The Musical Quarterly,Vol. 80, No. 1 (1996): 13–30.

"The Ethnomusicologist and the Transmission of Tradition." The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1996): 35–51.

"Mythologies and Realities in the Study of Jewish Music." The World of Music, Vol. 37 (1) 1995:  24–38. Reprinted in Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions, Ed. Lawrence Sullivan. Cambridge: Center for the Study of World Religions and Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 299–318.

"The Sacred in Music: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology." In Reflections on the Sacred: The Musicological Perspective. Yale Studies in Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts. Ed. Paul Brainard. New Haven: Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 1994, pp. 26–33.

"Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant." (with Peter Jeffery and Ingrid Monson). Early Music History ,Vol. 12 (1993): 55–117.

"The Musician and Transmission of Religious Tradition: The Multiple Roles of the Ethiopian Dabtara." Journal of Religion in Africa 22(3) (1992): 242–260.

"Recording Technology, the Record Industry, and Ethnomusicological Scholarship. " In Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology. Eds. Bruno Nettl and Philip Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991,  pp. 277–292.

"Together in the Field: Team Research Among Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York." Ethnomusicology 32(3) (1988): 369–384.

"Music in the American Synagogue: A Case Study from Houston." In The American Synagogue. A Sanctuary Transformed. Ed. Jack Wertheimer.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 395–415.  First paperback edition, Brandeis University Press, 1995.

"A Comparative Study: Jewish Liturgical Forms in the Falasha Liturgy?"  Yuval 5 (1986). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, pp. 372–404.

"Folk Memory and Jewish Identity: The Falasha Dilemma." Â  In Solomon Goldman Lectures: Perspectives in Jewish Learning. Ed. Nathaniel Stampher.  Chicago: Spertus College Press, 1985,  pp. 43–54.

"A New System of Musical Notation in Ethiopia." Ethiopian Studies Dedicated to Wolf Leslau. Eds. Stanislav Segert and Andras T. E. Bodrogligeti. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983, pp. 571–582.

"Music and Text of the Falasha Sabbath." Orbis Musicae 8 (1982–1983): 3–22 .

"The Lalibeloc: Musical Mendicants in Ethiopia.  Journal of African Studies 9 (Fall 1982):  128–138.

"Zema: A Concept of Sacred Music in Ethiopia." The World of Music (3) (1982):  52–67.

"Seged: A Falasha Pilgrimage Festival." Musica Judaica 3(1980-1981):  42–62. Reprinted, with "Update," in Musica Judaica, A Golden Encore Edition, Vol. XIV (1999): 65–85.

"'Historical Ethnomusicology': Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History." Ethnomusicology 24 (May 1980):  233–258. Reprinted in Journal of Synagogue Music 13 (1984):  8–33.

"Continuity and Change in the Liturgy of the Falashas." Modern Ethiopia . Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (A). Ed. Joseph Tubiana. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1980, pp. 479–489.

"Rethinking Falasha Liturgical History."  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (B). Ed. Robert Hess. Chicago, IL, 1978,  pp. 397–410.

"A Quarter Century in the Life of a Falasha Prayer."  Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 10 (1978): 83–108

Reviews
Passport to Jewish Music by Irene Heskes and Modern Jews and their Musical Agendas, Ed. Ezra Mendelsohn. American Jewish History, Vol. 84, No. 1 (March 1996):  53–55.

Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. Eds. Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, and Daniel M. Neuman. The American Anthropologist, Vol. 94, No. 3 (September 1992):  740.

The Two Zions by Edward Ullendorff. Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 2 (December 1991):  202–203.

African Musicology– Current Trends, Vol. I, Ed. Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje and William G. Carter. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 23(2) (1990).

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Vol. II. Judeo–Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition by Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman. Ethnomusicology 31(2) (1987):  353–354.

Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice. Ed. Joyce Irwin. Ethnomusicology 30(1) (1986): 176–178.

"Jewish Music, Israel, Ethiopia." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ethnomusicology 29(1) (1985): 159–161.

Performance Practice. Ethnomusicological Perspectives. Ed. Gerard Behague. Music Library Association Notes, (September 1985):  46–48.

The Study of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl. The Musical Quarterly LXX (1) (1984):140–145.

Museum Catalogue
The Jews of Ethiopia : A People in Transition. Guest Curator of exhibition, co–editor of catalogue, author, "The Beta Israel in Twentieth–Century Ethiopia." Tel Aviv and New York: Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, and The Jewish Museum, New York, 1986,  pp. 40–73.

Recording
Pizmon. Syrian–Jewish Religious and Social Song. Edited with Sarah Weiss and Geoffrey Goldberg. Shanachie Records, Meadowlark M105, 1985.  Chosen for American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1985. A Selected List, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Received (in name of NYU Urban Ethnomusicology Program and the Sephardic Community Center) Award for Excellence in Communications by the 1988 JWB Communications Competition.

SELECTED ACADEMIC LECTURES (since 1990 only)
“Musical Creativity and Social Processes in American Musical Life.” Only in America, Music in Jewish Life. Jewish Theological Seminary (11 November 2003)

“Teaching and Research:  A Virtual Ethnography of Actual Practice.”  Annual Meeting of the American Musicology  Society, Houston, Texas (14 November 2003)

“Women and the Syrian Jewish Musical Tradition.” Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.  Johns (11 September 2003)

“Music, History, Memory.” Keynote address for the British Forum in Ethnomusicology, Bangor, Wales (5 May 2003)

“EthnomusicologyÂ’s Americanist Agenda.” Criss Cross: Conversations about AmericaÂ’s Music.  University of Michigan, (18–19 April 2003)

“Maintaining Jewish Communities Through Music: The Case of Women and the Syrian Jewish Sebet.” Yale University (13 April, 2003)

“Ethnicity  and Beyond: Reconsidering Notions of Community in American Musical Life.” Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona (1 March 2003)

“Views from ‘The Bridge’: Monument, Model, Metaphor.” Conference in Memory of Eric Werner: Building Sacred Bridges. Hebrew Union College (24 November 2002)

"Thinking About and Transmitting World Music: Challenges Past, Present, and Future." Wesleyan University (13 February 2002)

"Hearing Silent Voices:  Women and the Syrian Jewish Musical Tradition." 26 January 2002,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Florida, Gainesville, 8 October, 2003; Tufts University (20 November 2003)

"Becoming Significant Others:  Building Communities Through Music."  Presidential Plenary Session, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska (19 October 2001, delivered by videotape)

"Of Music and its Secret Practices:  Musicians as Healers." Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (12 April 2001)

"Toward an Ethnography of the Early Music Movement." Princeton University (26 September 2000)

"Of Music and Migration: Views from the Ethiopian Diaspora."  The Ethel Curry Distinguished Lecture in Musicology. Ann Arbor, Michigan (18 February 2000)

"Pre-concert lectures, Crossound Festival, Juneau, Alaska (10–11 July 1999)

"Mapping the Cityscape: A Case Study from Boston." University of California, Los Angeles (21 May 1999)

"An Ethnomusicology of Memory." The Martin Bernstein Lecture, New York University,

(14 October 1997); American Psychoanalytic Association, Music Cognition Study Group, New York City (17 December 1998); Florida State University, Tallahassee (20 January 1999);  and University of California, San Diego (25–26 May 1999)

"A New Sacred Bridge: Jewish Music as Early Music." Williams College  (26 September 1997)

"Towards an Ethnomusicology of the Early Music Movement.."  Conference on Anthropological Theory and Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Western Music, Washington University in St. Louis (20–21 September 1997)

"Theorizing the Transnational in Music." 16^th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Cambridge, Great Britain (17 August 1997)

"Neither Seen Nor Heard: Women, Music, and Ethnographic Method."  First International Congress on Women and Music, Wellesley College (17 April 1997)

"'What's Up Doc?': Film as Musicology."  Panel Organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (November 1996)

"Song as Social History: What Type of Past Does the Syrian–Jewish Pizmon Construct?" 4 Smith College, Northampton (October 1996)

"Musical Transmission and Transnationalism: Mapping the Path of a Syrian-Jewish Pizmon." University of Pennsylvania (28 March 1996)

"Song and Remembrance: Musical Traditions of the Syrian Jews." Hebrew College, Newton, MA (2 May 1996)

"The Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition." Yale University, New Haven (1 December, 1994); Eastman School of Music (25 March 1994); Department of Anthropology, Harvard University (13 December 1993)

"East Side, West Side, All Around the Town: Music in and of New York City." American Cultural Center Jerusalem, USIS Jerusalem, and USIS Tel Aviv (16, 17, & 24 March 1993)

"Reflections on Fieldwork Among the Beta Israel."  Harry S. Truman Research Institute, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (15 March 1993)

"Intersections of Life and Scholarship: Human Relations in the Field."  Brown University, Providence (3 December 1992)

"Song and Remembrance in the Sephardic Tradition." University of Florida (27 October 1992)

"The Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) and Jewish Studies: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology."  Rice University, Houston (31 August 1992)

"Song and Remembrance among Sephardic Jews."  Ohio State University, Columbus (20 May 1992)

"The Development of Sephardic Music in the Countries of Relocation."  Symposium on

"Expulsion of the Jews from Spain 1492, Preconditions and Impact."  The New York University Humanities Council, sponsored by the Skirball Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU and the Hebrew Union College–JIR, New York City (31 March 1992)

"Remembering the Past, Creating the Future: The Sephardic Tradition in Song."  Lecture series, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City (5 March–9 April 1992)

"Song and Remembrance: The Case of the Syrian Pizmon."  York University, Toronto (10 March, 1992)

"The Sacred in Music: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology."  Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven (29 January 1992)

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem." Pre–Concert Lecture for Waverly Consort, New York City (16 February 1991)

"Music and Ethnicity Among American Jews." Brown University, Providence (8 February 1990)

ADVISORY POSITIONS
American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress, Board of Trustees (Congressional appointee, 1999–2006);  Board of Trustees, Vice Chair (2000–2002)

Visiting Committee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Music and Theatre Arts (1998–2002)

National Endowment for the Arts, Site Review (February 1997)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Panelist: Division of General Programs  (Fall 1983); NEH Division of Research, Fellowships (1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, & 1994); NEH Division of Research, Research Tools (1992)

Library of Congress, Panelist: American Folklife Center (1987, 1988)

The World Music Institute, Advisory Board (1986–1988)

The Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music, Advisory Board (1988–present)

Academic Advisory Council, Outside reader: National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1982–present) ; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1990–present); Amato Foundation (1992, 1993)

Frontiers of a New Global Society: Los Angeles, Africa, and the Middle East, Participant (planning conference for the Los Angeles Festival, 17–19 January 1992)

Michigan State University and UCLA, Consultant, Ethiopian Exhibit (April 1992)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Congressional  appointee to the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress; Chair,  Board of Trustees, American Folklife Center (2002–2004)

Editorial Boards: Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Oxford University Press,  Advisory Panel (2003–present) ; Musica Judaica, Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music (1999–present); The University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Series in Ethnomusicology (1989–present); The University of Rochester Press, Series in Music (1992–1995);  Journal of Ethiopian Studies (1994–present); Advisor to Garland Publishing, Inc. (1996–1998)

Harvard University, Mind, Brain and Behavior Faculty Fellowship (1996–2002)

Society for Asian Music, Board of Directors (1983–1991)

Jewish Music Council Executive Board (1982–1990); Scholarly  Advisory Committee (2003–present)

Advisory Board, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (1996–present)

Academic Advisory Committee, International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University (1997–present)

Joint Program Committee for the AMS–SEM–SMT Annual Meeting: Member, Oakland (1990)

American Musicological Society: Committee on Status of Women (1985–1988); AMS Council (1987–1989, 1996–1999); AMS 50 Fellowship Committee (1994–1998)

Society for Ethnomusicology: President (1997–1999); Chair, Nominating Committee (1992); Second Vice President (1988–1990); Member-at-large, Board of Directors (1982–1984); Member, SEM Council (1978–1981; secretary, 1979–1981; 1983–1986); Vice President, Northeast Chapter SEM (1981–1982); Chair, Program Committee for 1983 Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL; Program Committee member (1982, 1984); Chair, SEM Recruitment (1982–1984); Chair, Charles Seeger Prize Committee (1983); Chair, Ethics Committee (1981–1982); Nominating Committee (1979, 1987, 1991, chair); Development Committee, (1987); Editor, Careers for Ethnomusicologists, internal SEM publication (1980)

Consultant, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida , “Ethiopia: Icons of the Past, Images of the Present” (9–11 October, 2003)

Guest Curator, Jewish Museum Exhibition." The Jews of Ethiopia: A People in Transition." New York City (15 December, 1986 – 19 April, 1987)

Faculty-in-Residence, CBS Records Division (Summer 1986)