Byrd McDaniel [email protected] – Northeastern University – Updated August 2019

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Northeastern University | Visiting Assistant Professor 2019-2020 Department of | College of Arts, Media, and Design

Tufts University | Lecturer 2017 Department of Music | School of Arts and Sciences

Brown University | Graduate Teaching Fellow 2016 Department of Music

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in May 2019 Providence, RI

M.A. in Ethnomusicology May 2015 Brown University Providence, RI

M.A. in American Studies May 2013 Tuscaloosa, AL

B.A. in English Literature May 2010 B.A. in Chinese San Antonio, TX Trinity University Magna Cum Laude

PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Co-authored with Paul Renfro. “‘This is Not Normal’: Gender, Ability, and Age in the Resistance to Trumpism.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 39(2). Spring 2019.

“Air Apparent: Amplifying the Politics of Air Guitar, Air Bands, and Air Playing in the United States.” American Quarterly. 70(4). Winter 2018.

“Out of Thin Air: Configurability, Choreography, and the Air Guitar World Championships.” Ethnomusicology. 61(3), pp. 419-445. Fall 2017.

“Shoes as a Symbol of Romantic Mobility in Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine.” The Explicator 71(2). pp. 103-106. July 2013.

“Crooning, Country, and the Blues: Redefining Masculinity in , 1930-1950.” NeoAmericanist 6(1). June 2012.

“‘A Style Applied to Things’: The Aural Improvisation in Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues.” Criterion 5(1). January 2012.

IN PROGRESS

Spectacular Listening: The Performance of Music Consumption. Book.

“Reactive Listening: Popular Music Reaction Videos, Creator Labor, and YouTube.” Article.

“Music Minus One: Interactivity, Improvisation, and Playing with Recordings.” Article.

“All Considered: Music Podcasts and Prescriptive Listening.” Article.

POPULAR WRITING AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

contributor, “The History of Air Guitar,” Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYU Radio, July 29, 2019.

contributor, April White, “An Electrifying History of Air Guitar,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 2019.

Byrd McDaniel, “How Air Guitar Became a Serious Sport,” The Conversation (Republished by BBC.com, Quartz, Chicago Tribune, and others). April 29, 2019.

contributor, Trevor Harvey, “Embodying Air Guitar with Hutchinson and Byrd McDaniel,” Ethnomusicology Today, August 28, 2018.

contributor, Matthew Guerrieri, “Air Guitar: From Elaborate Lark to Utopian Gesture,” Globe, June 23, 2016.

Byrd McDaniel, “An Aesthetic of Objectification: Kehinde Wiley’s Princess of Victoire of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha,” Pennsylvania Literary Review, August Issue 2013.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Reactive Media: The Theory of Listening in Popular Music Reaction Videos." Society for American Music. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upcoming March 2020.

“Popular Music Reaction Videos: Staging the Body as the Material Site of Music Reception.” Northeast Chapter of Society for Ethnomusicology. Colby College. Waterville, Maine. March 2019.

“Sympathetic Resonance: Popular Music Reaction Videos, Disability, and the Performance of Media Consumption.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies. , Washington. March 2019.

Chair and Organizer of Panel titled: "Social Listening: Archive, Protest, and Movement." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, Washington. March 2019.

“Spectacular Listening and the Legibility of Disability in the U.S. Air Guitar Championships.” Society for Ethnomusicology. Panel Sponsored by the Disability and Deaf Studies Special Interest Group. Albuquerque, New Mexico. November 2018.

“Watch Me Listen: Lip Syncing Videos on Musical.ly.” Rethinking Sound 2018. Hanyang University. Seoul, South . March 2018.

“Embodied Listening: Explorations at the Intersection of Performance Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Theopoetics.” Theopoetics: A Space for Thinkers, Doers, and Makers. Arts, Religion, Culture. Boston, . March 2018.

“Fluent Transmission: Lip Syncing, Popular Music Reaction Videos, and the Performance of Music Consumption on YouTube.” Northeast Chapter of Society for Ethnomusicology. . Wellesley, Massachusetts. March 2018.

“Conspicuous Listening: Lip Syncing and the Performance of Popular Music Consumption on YouTube.” Society for Ethnomusicology. Denver, Colorado. October 2017.

“Bad Singing and Karaoke Virtuosity: Failure and Success at the Providence Boombox.” Society for Ethnomusicology. Washington D.C. November 2016.

“Pathology, Fandom, and the Origins of Air Guitar.” Society for American Music. Boston. March 2016.

“Out of Thin Air: Technology, Media, and the Air Guitar World Championships.” Society for Ethnomusicology. Austin, Texas. December 2015.

“Hip Hop, Ecology, and Climate Change.” Seizing an Alternative: Toward An Ecological Civilization. Claremont Graduate School and Pomona College. Claremont, California. May 2015.

“‘To Air is Human’: Virtual Performance and the International Air Guitar Competition.” CUNY Graduate Students in Music Conference. City University of New York. New York City, New York. April 2015.

“The Legacy of the Minstrel Mask: Race in American Popular Music.” Montgomery Southern Liberal Arts Conference. Auburn University Montgomery. Montgomery, Alabama. February 2012.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

As Instructor of Record

Music, Disability, and Cultural Identity (Northeastern University, 2020) Development in Progress.

Musical Communities of Boston (Northeastern University, 2020) Development in Progress.

World Music (Northeastern University, 2019) This survey of world music offers an overview of music in Africa, Europe, the , Indonesia, Australia, India, Central , , North America, and many virtual worlds. Students develop research projects that involve a particular political event or issue and its relationship to music. Their project encourages them to gain knowledge of and an investment in a particular struggle for justice—all while exploring the power of music to bring about cultural change.

Music of Asia (Northeastern University, 2019) Our course focuses on cultural values, aesthetic preferences, and sound practices in Asia. In the first unit, students examine historical traditions in China, Japan, India, Pakistan, , and . In the second unit, we turn to contemporary practices, including gamelan, punk music in Myanmar, virtual idols in Japan, and indigenous Taiwanese music online. Our final unit brings our themes together with an extended study of K-Pop.

Music, Technology, and Digital Culture (, 2017) I designed a course on historical and contemporary developments in music and technology, with case studies including the phonograph, radio, electric guitar, synthesizer, music video games, and the mp3 format.

East Asian Popular Music (Brown University, 2016) Bringing together theoretical work on identity and transpacific cultural production, I developed a course on the circulation, consumption, and production of popular music in North and South Korea, mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan, with case studies on K-Pop, karaoke, Japanese hip hop, noise music, and Chinese rock.

The Meaning of Mashups (University of Alabama, 2013) Highlighting the way digital technologies raise new and longstanding questions related to culture and identity, I created a course that situated musical themes—remix, remediation, sampling, copyright, theories of ownership, and historical distinctions between art and entertainment—within U.S. cultural shifts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

As Graduate Teaching Assistant

Digital Media and Virtual Performance (Brown University, 2019, Main Instructors: Kiri Miller and Sydney Skybetter)

Computers and Music (Brown University, 2018, Main Instructor: Erik DeLuca)

American Roots Music x 2 (Brown University, 2015 & 2018, Main Instructor: Kiri Miller)

Music and Modern Life (Brown University, 2016, Main Instructor: Marc Perlman)

World Music (Brown University, 2015, Main Instructor: Sheryl Kaskowitz)

Contemporary Music in America (University of Alabama, 2012, Main Instructor: Eric Weisbard)

American Experience I (University of Alabama, 2012, Main Instructors: Eric Weisbard, Edward Tang, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Jeffrey Melton, and Jolene Hubbs)

American Experience II (University of Alabama, 2013, Main Instructor: Eric Weisbard, Edward Tang, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Jeffrey Melton, and Jolene Hubbs)

Football in American Culture (University of Alabama, 2013, Main Instructor: Michael Wood)

Introduction to Southern Studies (University of Alabama, 2013, Main Instructor: Jolene Hubbs)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

Blanton Owen Fund Award from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (2019)

James T. Koetting Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awarded by Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2019)

Research Matters Presenter at Brown University (2019)

Lise Waxer Student Paper Prize Honorable Mention from Popular Music Section of Society for Ethnomusicology (2017)

Joukowsky Summer Research Award from Brown University (2014, 2017)

Department of Music Teaching Fellow at Brown University (2016)

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Research Grant (2015)

Edgar Lewis Marston Graduate Fellowship at Brown University (2013-2014)

Outstanding Research by Master’s Student Award in School of Arts and Sciences at University of Alabama (2013)

Graduate Fellowship, University of Alabama (2011-2012)

Phi Beta Kappa (2010)

SERVICE & PUBLIC WORKS

Undergraduate Faculty Mentor at Northeastern University (2019)

U.S. Air Guitar Championships Judge at Exit/In in Nashville, Tennessee (2019)

Boston Regional Air Guitar Competition Judge at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2019)

Curator of Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar. Exhibit in Orwig Music Library at Brown University (2019)

Sight and Sound Subvention Committee for Society for American Music (2019-2023)

Co-Taught Pop Music Spirituality, A Continuing Education Online Course for the Spirituality & Practice Organization (2019)

Video Streaming Volunteer at Society for Ethnomusicology Conference in Albuquerque (2018)

Union Representative for Department of Music Graduate Students (2018)

International Graduate Student Orientation Peer Mentor (2018)

Committee Member for Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in the Music Department (2017)

Host of Panel Discussion, “Karaoke: Global Technology, Local Practice,” in Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University (2017)

Guest Curator for Karaoke: Asia’s Global Sensation Gallery Exhibit, in Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University (2017)

Graduate Student Liaison to Sheridan Center for Music Department (2014-2016)

Music Department Colloquium Series Co-Organizer, Featured speakers included Michael Silvers, Harmony Bench, Ellen Gray, Will Cheng, Sydney Hutchinson, Andrew Mall, and Matt Sakakeeny (2014-2015)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of Ethnomusicology Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Society for American Music American Studies Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies

REFERENCES

Kiri Miller | [email protected] William Cheng | [email protected] Professor of Music and American Studies Associate Professor of Music Brown University

Joshua Tucker | [email protected] David Locke | [email protected] Associate Professor of Music Department Chair and Professor of Music Brown University Tufts University

Marc Perlman | [email protected] Eric Weisbard | [email protected] Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of American Studies Brown University University of Alabama