John Patrick Murphy – Curriculum Vitae
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John Patrick Murphy Work: 1155 Union Circle #311367 Denton, Texas 76203-5017 T (940) 565-4344 Curriculum Vitae B [email protected] Education 1994 Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, Dissertation: Performing a Moral Vision: An Ethnography of Cavalo-Marinho, A Brazilian Musical Drama. 1988 M.A., Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, Thesis: The Charanga in New York, 1987-88: History, Musical Style, and Performance Context. 1986 M.M., Music Theory, University of North Texas, Problem in lieu of thesis: A Computer-Assisted Instruction Lesson in Recognition of Soprano-Bass Counterpoint (paper and BASIC program). 1984 B.M., Jazz Studies, University of North Texas, Performance emphasis. 1979–1980 Humanistic studies major, Johns Hopkins University, with saxophone study at Peabody Conservatory. Administrative work 2008–Present Chair, Division of Jazz Studies. 2012-2013 Interim Director of Graduate Studies, College of Music, while continuing chair service and full-time teaching. 2006–2008 Chair, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology. Faculty work 2007 Professor, University of North Texas. 2004 Associate Professor with tenure, University of North Texas. 2001 Associate Professor, University of North Texas. 2000 Professor, Western Illinois University. 1998 Associate Professor with tenure, Western Illinois University. 1995 Associate Professor, Western Illinois University. 1992 Professor, Western Illinois University. Books 2008 Cavalo-marinho pernambucano, Translated by André Curiati de Paulo Bueno, Belo Hori- zonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Editora UFMG [University Press of the Federal University of Minas Gerais], Review: Per Musi, journal published by Federal University of Minas Gerais, www.musica.ufmg.br/permusi/port/numeros/23/num23_cap_20.pdf. 2006 Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Oxford University Press, part of Global Music Series, Reviews: Suzel Ana Reily in Ethnomusicology 51/3 (2007): 486-492; Rogério Budasz in Music and Letters (88/7, Nov. 2007): 709-711; Peter Ermey in Journal of Folklore Research (Nov. 28, 2007), www.indiana.edu/ jofr/review.php?id=424; Leandro Martinelli posted at Overmundo, a Brazilian culture blog; Times Literary Supplement (Oct. 27, 2006); Gazeta Mercantil (major São Paulo newspaper, Feb. 9, 2007); Continente Multicultural (nationally-distributed Brazilian culture magazine, Feb. 2007); My website to supplement the book: jazz.unt.edu/murphy/brazil. Book chapters 2018 Chapter on Samba for Oxford University Press world music textbook, Chapter is complete and awaiting editorial response. 2018 Finding and evaluating music scores in a master’s level course in research methods for jazz studies, In Ritter, Marian, Beth Christensen, and Erin Conor, eds. Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2018. 2009 Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Pro- gram, in Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, Society, edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois Press, Originally presented at the New Directions in Improvisation: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2004. 2002 Viral Creativity: A Memetic Treatment of the Music of André Abujamra and Karnak, in From Tejano to Tango: Essays on Latin American Popular Music, edited by Walter A. Clark, Routledge. 2001 Self-Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music: Mestre Ambrósio, in Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization, edited by Charles Perrone and Christopher Dunn, University Press of Florida, 2001, reprinted Routledge 2002. 1991 The Charanga in New York and the Persistence of the Típico Style, in Essays on Cuban Music: North American and Cuban Perspectives, edited by Peter Manuel, University Press of America. Articles 2012 Articles on the Brazilian rabeca and rabeca-maker Manoel Severino Martins (Mané Pitunga) in New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 2010 Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music and Jazz, Proceedings of the conference Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music (c1600-Present), Diagonal, cilam.ucr.edu/diagonal/issues/2010/. 2000 A Web-Assisted Approach to the Music Listening Class, College Music Society web site, www.music.org/), abstract in College Music Symposium 40 (2000):167. 2000 Lessons Learned from Humanities Assessment in Music, College Teaching 48/3: 102. 1997 The Rabeca and its Music, Old and New, in Pernambuco, Brazil, Latin American Music Review 18/2: 145-70. 1990 Jazz Improvisation: The Joy of Influence, The Black Perspective in Music, 18: 7-19. LPs 1985 Lab ’84, One O’Clock Lab Band, played tenor saxophone, includes two of my compositions. 1983 Heads Up, Daagnim Records 10, Dave Love, tpt, flg; John Murphy, ts; Arthur Lipner, vib; Drew Phelps, b; Walt Brewer, d; Dennis Gonzales, perc. Rec. Nov. 12-13, 1983, reviewed by Peter Leitch, Cadence 10/8(August 1984): 60. CDs 1994 The Third Degree, Western Illinois University Jazz Studio Orchestra, Seabreeze Vista SBV-4511, Tenor saxophone soloist on The Third Degree, Nasty Dance, with guest artist John Fedchock. 2015 Otherwise, Armored Records ARCD8054, Music by Kevin Brunkhorst. CD recorded August 2015 with Kevin Brunkhorst, guitar; John Murphy, tenor saxophone; Fred Hamilton, bass; Ed Soph, drums. Reviews 2010 A Country Critique of Brazilian Modernity, Review of River of Tears: Country mu- sic, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil by Alexander Dent, A Contracorriente 8/1: 416-422, www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente. 2009 Review of Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil by Larry Crook, Yearbook for Traditional Music 41: 237-239. 2008 Review of Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser’s Art. By Andy Hamilton (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), Bulletin of the Society for American Music 34/3: 63-64. 2000 Review of Exploring the World of Music (12-part video series; Dorothea Hast, director of content and writer, Martin Toub, director; Annenberg/CPB Project 1998), in Ethnomusicology (44/1:180-2). 1998 Review of The Discoteca Collection Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas (Rykodisc RCD-10403) and L.H. Corrêa de Azevedo: Music of Ceará and Minas Gerais (Rykodisc RCD-10404), Yearbook for Traditional Music 30: 195-6. 1996 Review of Crossroads: Southern Routes, Music of the American South. Smithso- nian/Folkways Enhanced CD SF 40080, Yearbook for Traditional Music 28: 239-40. 1997 Review of ¡Salsa! Havana Heat: Bronx Beat by Hernando Calvo Ospina (London, 1995), New West Indian Guide (71/3&4): 334-35. 1995 Review of The Duke Ellington Reader, edited by Mark Tucker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), Journal of Musicological Research 15: 129-33. 1992 Review of Capoeira/Samba/Candomblé (Berlin, 1990) CD, Yearbook for Traditional Music 22:178-9. 1990 Review of Salsa: The Rhythm of Latin Music, by Charley Gerard (Crown Point, IN: White Clis Media, 1989), Ethnomusicology 34/2: 315-16. Papers & presentations 2018 Studying Jazz Across Cultures (in preparation), 1er. Congreso de Educación en el Jazz JAZZUV, Universidad Veracruzana, México, Oct. 22-25, 2018. 2016 Accommodating the Needs of Students on the Autism Spectrum in University Music Pro- grams, Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Washington, D.C.. 2016 My Experience with Music-Induced Hearing Loss, Health in Music Education conference at UNT. 2016 Expressive Microtiming in Irish Traditional Accordion Playing, Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest chapter meeting, UNT. 2010 Who Cares if You (Can’t) Listen? Noise-induced hearing loss as a research problem and occupational hazard in ethnomusicology, Co-presented with Kris Chesky. Society for Ethnomu- sicology annual meeting, Los Angeles, 2010, My portion is published in UNT’s open access archive: digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67645/. 2010 Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music and Jazz, paper presented at Encounters 2010 conference, University of California Riverside. 2007 A Yoke on Your Neck and a Knife at Your Throat: Stories from Cavalo-Marinho, public lecture with video presentation, La Peña gallery, Austin TX. 2007 The Music and Life of Ronald Shannon Jackson and Ethnomusicological Fieldwork in Recife, Brazil, guest lectures, University of Texas at Austin. 2002 Um Nordeste Alternativo: A Nova Cena do Recife, An Alternative Northeast: The Recife New Music Scene, presented in Portuguese at Associação Brasileira de Etnomusicologia conference, Recife, Brazil. 2002 The African Big Band Aesthetic of Sam Rivers, paper presented at Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Estes Park, CO. 2002 Learning American History Through Jazz History, and Vice Versa, Teachers as Scholars seminar for public school teachers, supported by a grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, October 2 and 17, 2002, at UNT, and Oct. 9 and 23, 2003, Ft. Worth Health Sciences Center. 2002 Self-Discovery and Regional Identity in Brazilian Popular Music: Mestre Ambrósio and the Recife Scene, at Brazil Week 2002, University of Texas at Austin Institute of Latin American Studies. 2001 Regional Identity, Cultural Politics, and the Circulation of Musical Ideas: Alternative Pop- ular Music in Northeast Brazil, Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Detroit, MI. 2001 Common Practice Improvisation: Its importance in the undergraduate curriculum and suggestions for teaching it, Great Lakes Chapter meeting of the College Music Society. 2000 The Presence of the Rabeca in Northeast Brazilian Music, Staging Identities conference at the University of Florida, with the participation