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Jason
Stanyek
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Assistant
Professor
of Music
B.M., Brooklyn College
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Stanyek has published on subjects ranging from Brazilian hip hop to
Pan-African jazz, from intercultural free improvisation to capoeira.
Among his most recent publications are "Hip Hop and Black Public
Spheres in Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil" (with Sujatha Fernandes, in Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of
Africans in Latin American and the Caribbean), "Transmissions of
an Interculture: Pan-African Jazz and Intercultural Improvisation" (in The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz,
Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue) and a long entry on
"World Music" for Routlegde's Encyclopedia
of Globalization
(edited by Roland Robertson, Jan Aart
Scholte). He is currently writing an ethnography on Brazilian diasporic
performance, entitled Around the
World Goes Around: Performing Brazilian Music and Dance in the United
States, and is co-editing (with Sumanth Gopinath) a book on
mobile media and new modalities of sonic consumption.
He is a member of the advisory board of Critical Studies in Improvisation
and the Multimedia Reviews Editor of the Journal for the Society of American Music.
Between 2007-2013 he will be a member of
an international research team for a major collaborative project
entitled "Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice" (funded by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). As a
teacher he gives graduate seminars and undergraduate classes on
Brazilian music, sonic culture, critical theory, global hip hop, musics
of the African diaspora, world music, mew media, ethnographic method
and the history of ethnomusicology. Each year he teaches pagode and
cavaquinho at the California Brazil Camp in Cazadero, California.
Also highly active as a performer and composer, he
has released two CDs as a guitarist with the improvisation quartet
O'Keefe, Stanyek, Walton, Whitehead and served as an assistant
conductor for the premiere recording of Anthony Davis's opera Tania. Most recently he played
cavaquinho and berimbau on the CD Da
Rua Dos Ossos by Juju Duarte (Art Hurts, 2006). Dr. Stanyek's
compositions have been performed worldwide and he has composed music
for dance productions and films (including for Thomas Allen Harris's É Minha Cara/That's My Face: A
Mythopoetic Film Exploring the African Face of Brazil).
Prior to arriving at NYU, Dr. Stanyek
was an Assistant Professor ar the University of Richmond and a Fellow
at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. During
the 2007-2008 academic year he will be Visiting Associate Professor at
Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. (Critical Studies and
Experimental Practices) and an M.A. (Composition) from the University
of California, San Diego where he pursued his studies under the
guidance of George E. Lewis. He attended Brooklyn College as an
undergraduate and from that institution he received a B.M. (summa cum
laude) in composition.
e-mail: jstanyek@nyu.edu
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