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Ethnomusicology
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Visiting
Associate
Professor Maureen Mahon
Assistant
Professor Jason Stanyek
(sabbatical 2008-09)
Assistant Professor J. Martin Daughtry
Adjunct Instructor David Samuels
(Associate Professor as of August 1, 2009).
Affiliated Associate Professor Deborah
Kapchan
NYU Global Distinguished Professor Mick
Moloney
The ethnomusicology specialization at NYU emphasizes critical and
experimental
approaches to the anthropology of sound. While this area assigns
central importance to ethnography, we are resolutely interdisciplinary,
incorporating methodologies and theoretical orientations from fields
throughout the humanities and social sciences. Our broad definition of
ethnomusicology allows us to engage with issues of perennial concern to
the discipline (e.g., representation, identity, memory, nationalism,
diaspora, indigeneity, place/space, performativity, listening
practices, power, ethics) as well as with less conventional sets of
questions that are emerging from sound studies, psychoacoustics, trauma
studies, science and technology studies, and other hybrid fields.
This commitment to seeking out new and flexible avenues of inquiry is
grounded by our shared interest in producing analyses that combine
close attention to sonic detail with a heightened awareness of the ways
people make, disseminate and consume music.
While we support ethnographic projects in all possible contexts, our
students hone their research skills within the complex environment of
New York City and grapple with the production and circulation of
“local” knowledges in densely populated areas that are shot through
with transnational flows and disjunctures. We are highly
selective, accepting two or three students each year in order to
maintain excellent advising, funding, matriculation, and job placement.
We regard our graduate students as colleagues and collaborators, and
work to engage them in joint teaching, research and publication
projects. The ethnomusicology specialization is conceptualized in
profound
interrelationship with other areas of study in the department
and departments in the university and our doctoral students may take
courses at CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, the New School
University, and other distinguished universities in the region through
the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium.
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