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Ethnomusicology
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Associate Professor Ana
María Ochoa-Gautier (on sabbatical for the 2007-2008 academic
year)
Assistant Professor Jason Stanyek
Assistant Professor J. Martin Daughtry
Affiliated Associate Professor Deborah
Kapchan
NYU Global Distinguished Professor Mick
Moloney
The ethnomusicology track at NYU emphasizes critical and experimental
approaches to the anthropology of sound. While our program 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. The program is 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 track is conceptualized in profound
interrelationship with other areas of concentration 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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