FRANCESCA INGLESE
Department of Music | College of Arts, Media & Design Northeastern University 365 Ryder Hall | 617-373-2000 [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2018-present Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) College of Arts, Media & Design | Northeastern University
2016-2018 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Music and African & African American Studies | Dartmouth College
EDUCATION
2016 Ph.D. Department of Music (Ethnomusicology), Brown University
2008 M.A. Department of Music (Ethnomusicology), University of Toronto
2004 B.A. Department of Music (General and Departmental Honors), Vassar College
2004 CERT Braddhvani: Research and Training Institute for Music of the World, Chennai, India
RESEARCH & TEACHING FIELDS
Global Circulation of Black Popular Music and Dance, Music in American Culture, Music of Africa (particularly Southern Africa) and the African Diaspora, Ethnographic Methods, Postcolonialism, Dance and Performance Studies, Critical Race, Gender and Youth Studies, Music and Technoculture, Music Education
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS
2016 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award 2014 American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women 2013 African Music Section Student Paper Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology 2013 Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Grant
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018] 2013 Society for Ethnomusicology 21st Century Fellowship 2013 Mellon Summer Seminar in Dance Studies Fellow 2012 Steinhaus/Zisson Research Grant, Pembroke Center at Brown University 2011/12/13 International Travel Grant, International Affairs at Brown University 2007 FIPA Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto 2007 Anson-Cartwright Memorial Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto 2006 University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship 2007 Adolph Sutro Alumni Fellowship, Vassar College
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Review of Denis-Constant Martin, Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. African Minds Publishers. South African Music Studies (34/35).
2014 “Choreographing Cape Town Through Goema Music and Dance,” African Music Journal 9(4). (Published in conjunction with the African Music Section Student Paper Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology)
2014 Review of Carol Ann Muller and Sathima Bea Benjamin, Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz. Duke University Press. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa (11).
2013 "'Watch Out For The Sharks!': Gender, Technology, and Commerce in the American Song-Poem Industry," Journal of the Society for American Music 7(3).
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2017 “Youth, Heritage, and Ethnic Entrepreneurialism in Cape Town’s Klopse,” Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
2016 “The Neighbor Down the Road: Perspectives on Music in Cape Town,” Lecture presented with Kathleen Tagg in conjunction with the Brown Arts Initiative at Brown University
2015 “’All Mouth and Teeth’: Embodying the ‘Coon’ in Cape Town,” Paper presented at the Northeastern Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island
2014 “Performing the ‘Coon’ in Contemporary South Africa,” Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014 “Goema Bodies: Reterritorializing the City Through Dance,” Paper presented at Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance, Duke University, North Carolina
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018] 2013 “Contesting Urban Space Through Klopse Music and Dance,” Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana *Winner of African Music Section Student Paper Prize
2013 “Mimic, Remix, and Refashion: Creative Musical Recycling in Cape Town Klopse Practice,” Paper presented at the Northeastern Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
2012 “Poetry and Commerce in the American Song-Poem Industry” Paper presented at the New York University Graduate Music Conference, New York City, New York
2012 “Poetry and Commerce in the American Song-Poem Industry” Paper presented at the Northeastern Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
2011 “’Watch Out For the Sharks!’: Gender, Technology, and Commerce in the American Song- Poem Industry” Paper presented at the Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio
2010 “Glorified American Girls: The Ziegfeld Follies and the Performance of National Belonging, 1907-1931” Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - U.S. Branch Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 Jazz Lead Instructor, Northeastern University
2018 Music and the Racial Imagination Lead Instructor, Dartmouth College
2017 Cities, Subjects & Sonic Africa Lead Instructor, Dartmouth College
2017 Afropop! Lead Instructor, Dartmouth College
2017 African American Music Lead Instructor, Dartmouth College
2015 Dancing the African Diaspora Lead Instructor, Brown University
2014 Jazz in American Culture TA/Instructor, Brown University
2012 Beyond Bossa Nova TA, Brown University
2011 Musical Youth Cultures TA, Brown University
2011 Introduction to Ethnomusicology TA/Instructor, Brown University
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018] 2010 African American Musical Theater TA/Instructor, Brown University
2008 Vernacular Music of North America TA, University of Toronto
2007 Introduction to Music and Society TA/Weekly Instructor, University of Toronto
2007 World of Popular Music TA, University of Toronto
2007 Performing Arts of South Asia TA, University of Toronto
SERVICE / RELATED WORK
2018-present Faculty Consultant, University Honors Program LLC, Northeastern University
2017 Organizer, Community Hip-Hop and House Workshop, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2014 Teacher, African Music Workshop, AS220 Youth, Providence, Rhode Island
2014 Organizer, IE/Brown Cape Town (organized academic workshops and fieldtrips on music, tourism, and economic development for select group of international business students) Cape Town, South Africa
2009-12 Violin/Viola Mentor, Community MusicWorks, Providence, Rhode Island
2010-11 Organizer, Ethnomusicology Graduate Colloquium Series, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1997-2009 Private Violin/Viola Instructor
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2013 Afrikaans Intensive Course, Language Teaching Center, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Dutch Language Certification Course, University Language Centre - Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium
2010 Audio Documentary Summer Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1984-2009 Violin performance – Ruth Slater (Baroque), Linda Quan (Classical), John Blake Jr. (Jazz), K.S. Subramanian (Karnatic)
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018] 2000-04 Music composition – Annea Lockwood, Richard Wilson, Suzanne Sorkin
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
French (advanced) / Dutch (intermediate) / Afrikaans (intermediate)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society for Ethnomusicology – African Music Section (previous Secretary, elected position) and Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section; South African Society for Research in Music; Society for American Music; International Association for the Study of Popular Music; The Congress on Research in Dance; African Studies Association
REFERENCES
Kiri Miller Professor of Music and Professor of American Studies Department of Music / American Studies Brown University [email protected]
Theodore Levin Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music Department of Music Dartmouth College [email protected]
Jeff Todd Titon Professor Emeritus Department of Music Brown University [email protected]
Joshua Tucker David S. Josephson Assistant Professor of Music Department of Music Brown University [email protected]
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018] Dana Gooley Associate Professor of Music Department of Music Brown University [email protected]
Sylvia Bruinders Senior Lecturer/Head of Ethnomusicology and African Music South African College of Music University of Cape Town [email protected]
Francesca Inglese [last updated July 2018]