CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Michael Bakan Professor of Ethnomusicology Head of World Music Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies
College of Music 122 N. Copeland Street Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1180
Phone: (850) 644-4255, 216-0510 - FAX: (850) 644-2033 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.michaelbakan.com
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Education
1988-1993 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Major: Music. Specialization: Ethnomusicology Dissertation: Balinese Kreasi Beleganjur: An Ethnography of Musical Experience Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Timothy Rice
1986-1988 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles. Major: Music. Specialization: Ethnomusicology Thesis: Electronic Music Technology, Creativity, and Aesthetics: A Case Study of the Music-Making Process of Television Composer Joseph Conlan Thesis supervisor: Dr. Steven Loza
1981-1985 B.Mus., University of Toronto. Major: Performance. Specialization: Percussion. Graduated with honors. Major professor: Dr. J. Russell Hartenberger
Post-Degree Education and Training
16-18 Apr. 2008 SCERTS Introduction and Implementation Training, Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) Regional Training, University Center, Florida State University.
18-22 June 2007 Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Practice for Autism Spectrum Disorders, CARD Summer Institute on Autism, University Center, Florida State University.
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Professional Experience
2012-present Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of World Music, College of Music; Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies, Florida State University
2010-2012 Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of Ethnomusicology/World Music, College of Music; Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies, Florida State University.
2008-2010 Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Head of Ethnomusicology/ World Music, College of Music, Florida State University.
2001 (Summer) Visiting Associate Professor of World Music Education, University of Washington
2000-2008 Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, College of Music, Florida State University.
1994-2000 Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, College of Music, Florida State University.
1993-1994 Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University.
1992-1993 World Music Specialist, Educational Division, Los Angeles Music Center.
1987-1992 Graduate Assistant (Ethnomusicology), School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.
1981-pres. Freelance percussionist. Performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Players, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Ballet Orchestra, Music at Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Aman International Music and Dance Company (Los Angeles), Evergreen Club Gamelan, Cuarteto del Sur, Omnimusica Intercultural Ensemble, Maharajah Flamenco Trio, Jorge Continentino Quartet, Rudolf Serkin, John Cage, Tito Puente, Phil Nimmons, A. J. Racy, Trichy Sankaran, and the championship gamelan beleganjur groups of Kintamani and Tatasan Kaja, Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia).
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PUBLICATIONS
Books, as Author
Bakan, M.B. 2012. World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill. (xxxvii, 377 pp., pages, 4 CDs)
Adopted for courses at more than 200 universities and colleges, including: University of Chicago, Tufts University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Wellesley College, Northwestern University, University of Illinois (Urbana- Champaign), University of California (Davis).
Bakan, M.B. 2007. World Music: Traditions and Transformations. New York: McGraw-Hill. (xxxiii, 383pp., 3 CDs)
Bakan, M.B. 1999. Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (xxiii, 384pp., CD)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2000); reviewed in The Times (London) as one of the two “most significant publications on Balinese music in almost half a century” (2002).
Books, as Series Editor
Bohlman, Philip V. 2011. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe, 2nd ed. Focus on World Music Series. New York and London: Routledge.
Williams, Sean. 2009. Focus: Irish Traditional Music. Focus on World Music Series. New York and London: Routledge.
Crook, Larry. 2009. Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil, 2nd ed. Focus on World Music Series. New York and London: Routledge.
Muller, Carol A. 2008. Focus: Music of South Africa, 2nd ed. Focus on World Music Series. New York and London: Routledge.
Spiller, Henry. 2008. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, 2nd ed. Focus on World Music Series. New York and London: Routledge.
Crook, Larry. 2005. Brazilian Music: Northeast Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation. World Music Series. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO.
Bohlman, Philip V. 2004. The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History. World Music Series. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO.
Winner of the Derek Allen Prize of the British Academy, 2007.
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Spiller, Henry. 2004. Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia. World Music Series. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005.
Muller, Carol A. 2004. South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation. World Music Series. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO.
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes, Refereed/Invited
Bakan, M.B. Under review. “Archiving the Present and Giving Voice to Agency in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” In Frank Gunderson and Bret Woods (Eds.). Musical Repatriations: Giving Voice to Sonic Heritage.
Bakan, M.B. Forthcoming. “Inventing the Imaginary through the Erasure of the Actual: The Presence and Obliteration of Balinese Kecak in Italian and American Cinema.” In Miguel Mera, Ron Sadoff, and Ben Winters (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound. New York: Routledge.
Bakan, M.B. Forthcoming. “Dialectical Encounters of Balinese Gamelan and Western Percussion in Performance and Ethnomusicology.” In Russell Hartenberger (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Percussion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Bakan, M.B. In press. “‘Don’t Go Changing to Try and Please Me’: Combating Essentialism through Ethnography in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Ethnomusicology 59(1), 116- 44 (Winter 2015).
Bakan, M.B. In press. “The Musicality of Stimming: Promoting Neurodiversity in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” MUSICultures 41(2). Special Issue: Connecting with Communities.
Bakan, M.B. In press. “Toward an Ethnographic Model of Disability in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” In J. Straus et al. (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies.
Bakan, M.B. In press. “Being Applied in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” In J.T. Titon and S. Pettan (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bakan, M.B. 2014. “Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” College Music Symposium 54. Special Issue—Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and into the Future. http://symposium.music.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=10673:neurodiv ersity-and-the-ethnomusicology-of-autism&Itemid=128
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Bakan, M.B. 2014. “Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Autism, Neurodiversity, and Music Therapy. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 14(3). Special Issue on Music and Disability Studies. https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/799/660
Bakan, M.B. 2013. “Italian Cinema and the Balinese Sound of Greek Tragedy: Kecak Contortions and Postmodern Schizophonic Mimesis in Pasolini and Fellini.” In Kendra Stepputat (Ed.). Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali: Changing Interpretations, Founding Traditions (pp. 363-87). Graz, Austria: Shaker Verlag/Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology.
Anderson, W.A., M.B. Bakan, P.S. Campbell, J .Chooi-Then Lew, P. Nguyen, and P. Phoasavadi. 2011. “Music of Southeast Asia.” In W. Anderson and P.S. Campbell (Eds.), Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, 3rd ed. (v. 3, pp. 53-104). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/Music Educators National Conference.
Bakan, M.B. 2009. “Measuring Happiness in the 21st Century: Ethnomusicology, Evidence- Based Research, and the New Science of Autism.” Ethnomusicology, 53(3), 510-18.
Bakan, M.B. 2009. “The Abduction of the Signifying Monkey Chant: Schizophonic Transmogrifications of the Balinese Kecak in Fellini’s Satyricon and the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple.” Ethnomusicology Forum, 18(1), 83-106.
Bakan, M.B., Koen, B.D., Bakan, M. (Megan), Kobylarz, F., Morgan, L., Goff, R., & Kahn, S. 2008. “Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Facilitative Music-Play in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum.” College Music Symposium, 48, 1-30.
Bakan, M.B., Koen, B., Kobylarz, F., Morgan, L., Goff, R., Kahn, S., & Bakan, M. 2008. “Following Frank: Response-Ability and the Co-Creation of Culture in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum.” Ethnomusicology, 52(2), 163-202.
Bakan, M.B. 2008. “Preventive Care for the Dead: Music, Community, and the Protection of Souls in Balinese Cremation Ceremonies.” In B.D. Koen (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology: Music, Medicine, and Culture (pp. 246-64). New York: Oxford University Press.
Jones, J., Bakan, M.B., Falvo, R., Teel, A., & Younge, P. 2008. “Developing Intercultural Understanding: World Music Ensembles in University Percussion Education.” Percussive Notes, 46(3), 10-14.
Koen, B.D., Bakan, M.B., Kobylarz, F., Morgan, L., Goff, R., Kahn, S., & Bakan, M. 2008. “Personhood Consciousness: A Child-Ability-Centered Approach to Socio-Musical Healing and Autism Spectrum ‘Disorders.’” In B.D. Koen (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology: Music, Medicine, and Culture (pp. 461-81). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Bakan, M.B. 1998. “Walking Warriors: Battles of Culture and Ideology in the Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur World.” Ethnomusicology, 42(3), 441-84.
Bakan, M.B. 1998. “From Oxymoron to Reality: Agendas of Gender and the Rise of Balinese Women’s Gamelan Beleganjur in Bali, Indonesia.” Asian Music, 29(1), 37-85.
Bakan, M.B. 1998. “Way Out West On Central: Jazz in the African-American Community of Los Angeles Before 1930.” In J.C. DjeDje and E.S. Meadows (Eds.), California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West (pp. 23-78). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Bakan, M.B. 1998. “Asian Traditions.” In W.M. Anderson and M.C. Moore (Eds.). Making Connections: Multicultural Music and the National Standards (pp. 43-66). Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Campbell, P.S., W.M. Anderson, & Bakan, M.B. 1996. “Music of Southeast Asia.” In W.M. Anderson and Patricia Shehan Campbell (Eds.). Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, 2nd ed. (pp. 351-96). Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Bakan, M.B. 1994. “Lessons from a World: Balinese Methods of Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western ‘Art’ Music.” College Music Symposium, 33/34, 1-22.
Bakan, M.B., Bryant, W., Li, G., Martinelli, D., & Vaughn, K. (1990). “Demystifying and Classifying Electronic Music Instruments.” Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, 8, 37- 64.
Bakan, M.B. 1986. “West African Drum Languages.” Percussive Notes 24(2): 29-30.
Book Reviews and Recording Reviews
Bakan, M. B. 2012. Book review, “Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia,” by A.K. Rasmussen. Ethnomusicology 56(1), 140-44.
Bakan, M.B. 2004. Recording review, “The Roots of Gamelan: The First Recordings, Bali, 1928, New York, 1941.” Ethnomusicology, 48(1), 149-50.
Bakan, M.B. 2001. Recording review, “The Music of Bali.” Yearbook for Traditional Music, 33, 206-07.
Bakan, M.B. 1999. Book review, “Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater,” by E. Herbst. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 31, 143-45.
Bakan, M.B. 1998. Recording review, Smithsonian Folkways “Music of Indonesia” Series, Vols. 10-12: “Music of Biak, Irian Jaya” (Vol. 10), “Melayu Music of Sumatra and the Riau Islands” (Vol. 11), “Gongs and Vocal Music from Sumatra” (Vol. 12). Asian Music, 29(2), 146-49.
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Bakan, M.B. 1997. Recording Review Essay, “Polycultural Polyrhythms: World Percussion Compilation Recordings.” Ethnomusicology, 41(2), 303-13.
Bakan, M.B. 1996. Recording review, “Asian Journal” and “Living Magic” (Trilok Gurtu). Ethnomusicology, 40(2), 351-53.
Bakan, M.B. 1995. Recording review, “Gamelan Batel Wayang Ramayana” and “Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu: The Heavenly Orchestra of Bali.” Ethnomusicology, 39(2), 321-24.
Bakan, M.B. 1991. Book review, “Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm,” by M. Hart and F. Lieberman, with D.A. Sonneborn. Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology, 6, 88-91.
Music Recordings and Compilations
Omnimusica. Ashrei. 2014. Tallahassee: BBT Productions. (cdbaby.com/cd/omnimusica)
• In contention for a GRAMMY Award in the World Music category (57th Annual Grammy Awards), outcome pending. • Includes M. Bakan original compositions Ashrei, Mi Chamocha, Shalom Rav, Oseh Shalom, Shehecheyanu, and Sh’ma Yisrael, all of which are settings of Hebrew prayer and psalm texts from the Jewish liturgy.
Bakan, M.B. 2012. Four Compact Discs to Accompany World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed. (compilation). New York: McGraw-Hill/Sony Music.
Omnimusica Intercultural Ensemble (FSU). 2012. Oseh Shalom (EP).
Bakan, M.B. (composer, ensemble director). 2011. “B.A.Ph.PET” (for scratch turntable soloist, Balinese gamelan, and electronics). Disk 2, track 18, of Four Compact Discs to Accompany World Music: Traditions and Transformations. McGraw-Hill/Sony Music.
Cuarteto del Sur. 2011. Cuarteto del Sur (EP).
Bakan, M.B. 2007. 3 Compact Discs to Accompany World Music: Traditions and Transformations (compilation). New York: McGraw-Hill/Sony BMG.
Bakan, M.B. 1999. Accompanying CD of musical examples for Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bakan, M.B. (arranger). 1997. “Balinese Kecak: Excerpts from a Ramayana Monkey Chant.” One World, Many Voices--One Choir, Many Songs. The Indiana University School of Music International Vocal Ensemble.
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INVITED LECTURES, COLLOQUIA, RESIDENCIES
Keynote Address: “Conceptualizing Performance and Performing Conceptualization in the Theory and Practice of Balinese Gamelan Music.” 2015 Teaching World Music Symposium: From the Exotic to the Global, Northern Illinois University (9-11 April 2015).
VSA Indiana (The State Organization on Arts and Disability). “Making Music to Make a Difference: Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN. Harmony Talks: Music, Autism, and the Community (21 April 2014).
Kent State University. “Autism and the Arts: Making Music, Doing Ethnomusicology, Embracing Neurodiversity.” Panel Discussion on Autism and the Arts, KSU Performing Arts Library Colloquium Series (17 April 2014).
Columbia University. “Autism, Ethnomusicology, and the New Normal of Disability.” Center for Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, 701C Dodge Hall (23 May 2013).
Texas A&M University • “Music, Movement, and Cultural Performance in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Department of Performance Studies (8 March 2013). • “Balinese Gamelan Music of Indonesia: Interlocking Rhythms, Interlocking Worlds.” Department of Performance Studies (8 March 2013).
University of North Texas. • “Musical Ethnography as Social Activism in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, School of Music (5 March 2013).
Middlebury College. • “Ethnomusicology in Civic Engagement and Social Activism.” Music Department Visiting Lecture Series (18 September 2012). • “Making Music, Making Community: The Case of Balinese Gamelan.” Music Department guest lecture/workshop (18 September 2012).
University of Louisiana, Lafayette • “Musical Worlds, Community Values, and Cosmic Realms of Indonesian Gamelan Music.” Music Department Guest Lecture Series (21 Septemeber 2012). • Javanese gamelan performance workshop (21-22 September 2012)
TEDxFSU: Revelations to Revolutions (TED Talks): “Making Change: Music, Meaning, and Autism.” Augustus B. Turnbull III State Conference Center, Florida State University (12 April 2012).
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University of Florida • “Toward an Ethnomusicology of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Making Music, Measuring Happiness, and Bridging the Divide of Ethnography and Evidence-Based Research.” Musicology Colloquium Series (19 January 2011). • “Sambaganur!: Applying Balinese Gamelan Techniques, Textures, and Interlocking Rhythmic Structures in a Brazilian Samba Context.” Musicology Colloqium, School of Music, University of Florida (19 January 2011).
University of California, Santa Barbara. “Structures of Feeling: Musical Sense and Experiential Sensibility in Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur” (9 November 2010).
University of California, Riverside. “Sound, Sense, Science, Spectrum: Improvisatory Music- Play and the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series (8 November 2010).
Pomona College. • “E-WoMP Encounters: Engaging Personhood in the Ethnomusicology of Autism” (8 November 2010. • “Interlocking Structures and Semiotic Dimensions in Balinese Gamelan Music” (8 November 2010).
Valdosta University. “Foundations of Balinese Gamelan Music” (4 November 2010).
Troy University. • “From Ought-ism and Autism to Artism and Music-Play: Ethnomusicological Encounters on the Exploratory World Music Playground” (21 September 2010). • “Comprehending Balinese Gamelan: Music, Culture, and Interlocking Worlds” (21 September 2010).
Yale University. “Monkey Chant Madness: Balinese Kecak in Fellini’s Satyricon and the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple.” Council on Southeast Asia Studies Seminar Series (25 March 2009).
Boston University. • “Music and Play, Autism and Society: Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music-Play Project at Florida State University.” Seminar on Autism and Society (26 March 2009). • “Kecak Conundrums: Disembodied Balinese Voices in International Cinematic Art.” Center for the Study of Asia Lecture Series (23 March 2009). • “Interlocking Worlds: From Individual Pattern to Integrated Collectivity in Balinese Gamelan Music and the Medical Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Department of Musicology Colloquium Series (6 March 2008).
Berklee College of Music. Visiting Artist Major Residency (23-24 March 2009) • “From Gamelan to Global Grooves and E-WoMPs to Autism: Perspectives on World Music, Medical Ethnomusicology, and the Facilitation of Musicultural Understanding
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and Empathy.” Lecture, David Friend Recital Hall. Sponsored by the Music Therapy Department (24 March). • “Speaking of Percussion... : Voice Gamelans, Talking Drums, and Other Musicultural Fascinations from the Worlds of Vocal Percussion and Drum Speech” (24 March). Lecture/Clinic, David Friend Recital Hall. Co-sponsored by the Music Therapy and Percussion departments (24 March). • “Medical Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, and the Autism Spectrum.” Music Therapy and Medicine Colloquium (23 March). • “World Music and Ethnomusicology in the College Curriculum.” Interdepartmental Roundtable (23 March).
Harvard University. “Confronting and Transcending the Boundaries of ‘Gamelan’: Experiential Epistemologies of Scholarship, Performance, Pedagogy, and Medical Ethnomusicology.” Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Department of Music (5 March 2008).
University of Maryland, College Park. “The Abduction of Kecak: Musical Appropriations of Balinese Vocal Gamelan Music in Fellini’s Satyricon and the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple.” Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology Lecture Series (30 April 2008).
Shenandoah University. “Medical Ethnomusicology and the Autism Spectrum: A Forum for Music Therapists.” Music Therapy Program/Ethnomusicology Certificate Program (26 April 2008).
University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Dept. of Percussion Residency (14-16 Mar. 2008) • “Cyclic Forms, Melodic Configurations, and Interlocking Patterns in Balinese Gamelan Music: Theoretical and Performative Dimensions of an Indonesian Musicultural Tradition.” Lecture, Department of Percussion (15 March). • Indonesian Gamelan Master Classes (14-16 March)
University of British Columbia. “Musicultural Traditions and Transformations: Concepts and Issues in ‘World Music’ Pedagogy.” Ethnomusicology Division Colloquium, School of Music (7 March 2007).
Indiana University. “Representation, Reflexivity, and Intersubjectivity in Ethnomusicological Research.” Colloquium, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology (1 March 2005).
University of Colorado, Boulder. “Of Tabuh Pooh and Rap Kecap: Toward a Reflexive Ethnomusicology of Compositional Process.” Musicology Colloquium Series, College of Music (12 March 2001).
University of Chicago. • “Decomposing and Recomposing Balinese Gamelan Music: A Reflexive Exploration of Compositional Process.” Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Department of Music (23 Feb. 2001). • “Music of Death and New Creation: Issues of Reflexivity and Representation.” Ethnomusicology Graduate Ethnoise Forum, Department of Music (25 April 2000).
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. : “Music of Men (and Women!): The Peculiarly Gendered World of the Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur.” Gendering Area Studies: The Arts and the Boundaries of Identity lecture series (21 April 2000).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“A Sixth Sense: Music, Autism, and Progressive Disability Aesthetics.” American Society for Musicology/Society for Music Theory Joint Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI (November 2014).
“Different Drummers: Making Music and Rethinking Disability in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” Society for Disability Studies 2013 Conference, Orlando, FL (June 2013).
“Different Drummers: Making Music Make a Difference in the Ethnomusicology of Autism.” The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies Author Conference. City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (May 2013).
“Being Applied in the Ethnomusicology of Autism: Agency, Empowerment, and Musical Ethnography.” Society for Psychological Anthropology Annual Meeting (American Anthropological Association), San Diego, CA (April 2013).
“Performing Music, Performing Disability: Perspectives from the Autism Spectrum.” Joint Session of the 2012 joint meetings of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT), New Orleans (November 2012).
“Music and Disability: Works in Progress Seminar,” AMS Study Group on Music and Disability, sponsored by the AMS Disability SG and the SMT Disability SIG at 2012 joint meetings of AMS, SEM, and SMT, New Orleans (November 2012).
“Of Singing Birds, Unplayable Notes, and Black Athletic Shoes: Reminiscences of Encounters with John Cage.” John Cage Symposium, College of Music, Florida State University (October 2012).
“Intercultural, Intergenerational, and Inter-Neurophysiological Encounters along the Autism Spectrum: Improvisation as a Sociomusical Process in the the Music of the Artism Ensemble.” Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (November 2011).
“Medical Ethnomusicology and HIV/AIDS in Africa.” Respondent, President’s Roundtable. SEM Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (November 2011).
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“Leavis to Bieber: Going Gaga, Seeking Substance, and Fearing the Ephemeral in the Pedagogical Canonization of Contemporary Popular Music.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music US Branch Annual Meeting, Cincinnati (March 2011).
“Objective Measures of Subjective Experience in the Ethnomusicology of Autism: Attributes, Liabilities, and Larger Implications.” SEM Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (November 2010).
“Interlocking Rhythms and Interlocking Worlds: Balinese Gamelan Music and Global Perspectives on Music Teaching.” Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma Southeast District Convention, Tallahassee, FL (April 2008).
“The Signifying Monkey Chant: Decontextualizations and Recontexualizations of Balinese Kecak in International Films.” Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL (March 2008).
“Balinese Gamelan: A Hands-on Lecture Demonstration on Interlocking Structures, Paired Tuning, and More.” SEMSEC Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL (February 2008).
“World Music Ensembles in University Level Percussion Education: Issues, Concepts, and Perspectives.” Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), Columbus, OH (November 2007).
“‘Seeking, in the Widened Sense of the Term, to Converse with Them’: Efficacy, Response- ability, and Improvisational Engagement in Music-Play Encounters along the Autism Spectrum.” SEM Annual Meeting (October 2007).
“WoMPIT-ing in the E-WoMP: Exploratory Methods of Music-Play Improvisation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” SEMSEC Annual Meeting, Athens, GA (March 2007).
“Co-Creating Culture in the Exploratory World Music Playground: A Child-Ability Centered Approach to Autism Spectrum ‘Disorders.’” SEM Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI (November 2006). [N.B. Co-authored paper presented by Benjamin Koen]
“Creating the World (of Music): Epistemological Issues in World Music Pedagogy.” SEM Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI (November 2006).
“‘Together!’ World Music Play, Response-ability, and the Co-Creation of Culture in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” SEMSEC Annual Meeting Boone, NC (April 2006).
“Flute and Percussion.” Symposium— Flute Summit: Health and Healing Traditions from the Americas. Tallahassee, FL (October 2006). [N.B. Co-presented with Benjamin Koen.]
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“Child-Ability Centered Integrative Music Approach to Autism Spectrum ‘Disorders’.” American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Miami, FL (November 2006). [N.B. Co-authored poster presented by Rachel Goff]
“The Children’s Happiness Integrative Music Project (CHIMP): Toward a Medical Ethnomusicology of Autism Spectrum Disorders.” SEM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (November 2005).
“Sonic Holograms and Aural Mandalas: Experiencing the Enlivening, Protective, and Healing Dimensions of Balinese Gamelan Music.” Symposium on Music, Medicine, & Culture: Global Perspectives on Health and Healing, Tallahassee, FL (October 2004).
“An Analytical Portrait of Trilok Gurtu’s ‘Living Magic’.” SEMSEC Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (February 2004).
“Rhythm-a-ning: Participation-Centered Learning and the Teaching of Complex Rhythms in the World Music Classroom.” College Music Society National Conference, Miami, FL (October 2003).
“The Ten(ure) Commandments: A Practical Guide for Ethnomusicologists.” SEM Annual Meeting, Miami, FL (October 2003).
“Hyper-rhythmia and Disrhythmia in Children: Reflections on a Cross-Cultural Musical Odyssey.” Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2003).
“Balinese Rhythm and the Everchanging Same.” MTNA National Conference, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2003).
“The Mark of Zohar: Musical Transformations of Mystical Revelations in an Ancient, Jewish Prayer.” SEM Annual Meeting, Estes Park, CO (October 2002).
“The Ensemble Director as Composer: Creating Original Compositions for Traditional World Music Ensembles.” Pre-Conference Symposium, SEM Annual Meeting, Estes Park, CO (October 2002).
“Teaching the Intangibles: Creating Balinese Time and Groove in the Multicultural Classroom.” SEM Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON (November 2000).
“Participatory Experience in the World Music Classroom.” College Music Society National Conference, Toronto, ON (November 2000).
“Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Facilitating Practical Competence and Contextually- Sensitive Musicality in the Teaching of Balinese Gamelan Music.” SEMSEC Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (February 2000).
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“Making Hard Stuff Easy: Balinese Rhythm, Trust, and the Defiance of Entrainment.” SEM Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (November 1999).
“An Ethnomusicologist’s Reflections on a Balinese Drummer’s Reflections on Ethnomusicological Drumming.” SEM Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN (October 1998).
“Gamelan Suara: Vocal Percussion Choir of Bali.” Music Educators National Conference National Symposium on Multicultural Music, Knoxville, TN (October 1998).
“The Academic Interview.” Musical Academia Survival Tips plenary session. Joint annual meeting of SEMSEC and the South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT), Oxford, MS (February 1998).
“World Music Performance as Applied Ethnomusicology.” Applied Ethnomusicology and Folklore plenary session. Joint annual meeting of SEMSEC and the Florida Folklife Society, Ybor City, FL (February 1997).
“Making Connections: Multicultural Traditions and National Standards for Arts Education— Asian Music.” Key Focus Session, Biennial In-Service Conference of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Kansas City, MO (April 1996).
“‘And the Winner Is...?’: Partial Truths, Political Corruption, and Priorities of Identity in the Aftermath of a Balinese Music Contest.” SEM Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (October 1995).
“‘Well, if that's how they did it, it's not music!’” Music and Technoculture Pre-Conference Symposium. SEM Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (October 1995).
“Monkey Business: A Workshop on the Balinese Kecak.” Ohio Music Education Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH (February 1995).
“The Main Thread: Musical Experience, Trust, and the Conceptualization of Self in a Balinese Musical World.” SEM Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI (October 1994).
“New Life for Music of Death: Understanding and Experiencing the Balinese Kreasi Baleganjur World.” SEM Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH (April 1994).
“Central West: The Early History of Jazz in the African-American Community of Los Angeles.” Symposium—The ‘Swing’ Years: Influences of African-American Composer/Arrangers during the 1930s-40s, Hollywood, CA (February 1991).
“Way Out West On Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles, 1917-1924.” African- American Music Pre-Conference Symposium, SEM Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA (November 1990).
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“A System for the Synthetic Reconstruction of Polyrhythmic Percussion Music.” SEM Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ (October 1988).
COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Original Compositions for Omnimusica Intercultural Ensemble
2014 Sh’ma Adonai, Koli Ekra (from Psalm 27) (for Omnimusica and choir) Adon Alom Mi Shebeirach Hashkiveinu L’Dor Va Dor Performances: • Fall Festival of World Music, Opperman Music Hall, FSU (26 October 2014) • FSU Hillel House Parents’ Weekend Concert (25 October 2014) • Lincoln High School Choral Concert, w. special guests Omnimusica (9 October 2014) • Selichot service concert, Temple Israel Synagogue, 20 September 2014
2013 Sh’ma Yisrael Mi Chamocha Shehecheyanu Ashrei* Performances: • Rainbow Concert of World Music, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall (22 March 2013) [*Ashrei only] • School of Music, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (24 February 2013) • Florida Alliance for Arts Education Conference, Appleton Museum, Ocala, FL (23 February 2013) • Gleason Performing Arts Center, Florida Institute of Technology Performing Arts Series, Melbourne, FL (22 February 2013) • 2012 African Caribbean Concert, Lee Hall Auditorium, Florida A&M University (29 November 2012) 2013 (*Ashrei only)
2012 Papasovia 33 Shalom Rav Oseh Shalom Sim Shalom Rumbamba • Performance: Spring Festival of World Music, FSU, Dohnanyi Recital Hall, 5 April 2012
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Original Gamelan Compositions
2010 Kinksaganjur, for Balinese gamelan Performance: Opperman Music Hall (OMH), 2 Nov. 2010 2009 Porgyan Besyambrama, for two xylophones, clarinet, Balinese gamelan, and bass drum Performance: Opperman Music Hall (OMH), 1 Dec. 2009 2008 Beatle Bali’s Brazilian Baby, for Balinese gamelan, Brazilian percussion, and rock band Performances: OMH, 5 Nov. 2008; Tallahassee Community College, 13 Nov. 2008 Beleganjur for Bob (Marley), for expanded Balinese gamelan beleganjur Performances: OMH, 5 Nov. 2007; Tallahassee Community College, 13 Nov. 2008 2007 The Silence Past Loneliness, for solo vocalist, cello, and expanded Balinese gamelan gong kebyar (a setting of three poems by Paul Bakan) Performance: OMH, 27 Nov. 2007 (soloists: David Okerlund, Evan Jones) Amee Woohah, for gamelan suara (voice gamelan) and large gongs Performance: OMH, 27 Nov. 2007 Beleganjur for Tutnang, for gamelan beleganjur Performance: OMH, 27 Nov. 2007 2005 Belegadi Merdangga, for expanded gamelan beleganjur Performance: OMH, 6 Nov. 2005 Amagamadinda, for Ugandan amadinda, saxophone, electric guitar, and gamelan Performances: Ruby Diamond Auditorium (RDA), 2 Apr. 2005; OMH, 16 Apr. 2005 (soloists: Damascus Kafumbe, Ben Koen, Joël Johnson) Beleganjur 19 Gila, for gamelan beleganjur Performance: OMH, 16 Apr. 2005 2004 Tabuh Telu Anak-Anak, for gamelan gong kebyar with trompong and cengceng kopyak Performance: OMH, 30 Nov. 2004 Beleganjur Dunia (in three movements) Performance: OMH, 30 Nov. 2004 Jaya 81, for gamelan gong kebyar Performance: OMH, 18 Apr. 2004 Beleganjur Telu-Lima, for gamelan beleganjur Performance: OMH, 16 Apr. 2005 2001 Abuh Dada Suci Su, for traditional jazz combo and gamelan gong kebyar Performances: OMH, 10 Apr. 2001 and 24 Sept. 2001 (soloists: Leon Anderson, Jr., Dana Hall, Martin Robinson, Ted Zateslo, Rodney Jordan) 2000 Gending Beruang, for expanded Balinese gamelan gong keybar Performance: OMH, 9 Apr. 2000 1998 Pepper’s Jagul, for jazz drumset and Balinese gamelan gong kebyar Performances: OMH, 13 Nov. 1998 (soloist: Leon Anderson, Jr.) Ruby Diamond Auditorium, FSU, 20 March 1999 (soloist: Michael Bakan)
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1997 Innocence, for shakuhachi flute, viola, electric guitar, double bass, and gamelan gong kebyar Performance: OMH, 18 Oct. 1997 (soloists: Wayne Goins, Dale Olsen, Pamela Ryan) B.A.Ph.Pet, for stereo turntable soloist (hip-hop DJ), electric bass, synthesizer, and gamelan gong kebyar Performance: OMH, 18 Oct. 1997 (soloist: Charles Tremblay) Dug Daggin’ Dog, for two Balinese drums (kendang) and ‘chamber’ gamelan beleganjur [composition is based on music by I Ketut Sukarata] Performance: OMH, 18 Oct. 1997 (soloists: Charles Tremblay and Michael Bakan) Unyai, for Western flute, electric guitar, double bass, and gamelan gong kebyar Performance: OMH, 23 March 1997 (soloists: Karl Barton, Alejandro Berti, Wayne Goins, Michael Bakan) 1996 Gesuri Variations, for Balinese gamelan gong kebyar Performances: OMH, 30 March 1996 OMH, 12 April 1996 (Eighth Biennial Festival of New Music, FSU)
Transcriptions/Arrangements of Balinese Gamelan Repertoire
Tari Puspanjali gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 25 March 2011, 29 March 2011 Manuk Rawa gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performance, 5 Nov. 2008 Baris (1) for Central Javanese gamelan and bata drums. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Gamelan Ensemble, ULL, 11 April and 12 April, 2008 Sekar Kemuda (1) gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 8 Jan. 2007, 23 and 24 Mar. 2007 (“1” = original Asnawa composition version) Tabuh Telu gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 27 Nov. 2007 Sinom Ladrang gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 23 Mar. 1997, 9 Nov. 2003, 8 Jan. 2007, 23 and 24 March 2007 Baris (2) gamelan gong kebyar, FSU performance, 9 Nov. 2003 Kecak gamelan suara (voice gamelan), FSU performances, 9 Nov. 2003, 5 Nov. 2008, 25 March 2011 Angga Yowana gamelan beleganjur; FSU performances, 9 April 2000, 8 Jan. 2007, 23 and 24 Mar. 2007 Panyembrama gamelan gong kebyar, FSU performances, 12 Nov. 1999, 1 Dec. 2009, 2 November 2010 Oleg Tamulilingan gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performance, 10 Apr. 1999 Gilak Sasak gamelan gong kebyar, FSU performance, 12 Nov. 1999, 30 Mar. 1996 Baris gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 10 Apr. 1999, 30 September 1997, 23 November 1996, 17 Nov. 1995 Sekar Kemuda (2) gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 10 Apr. 1998, 27 Mar.1998, 17 November 1995 (“2” = simplified, abridged version) Tari-tari Topeng gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performances, 23 Mar. 1997 Beleganjur Kuno gamelan beleganjur; FSU performances, 23 Mar. 1997, 30 Mar. 1996
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Lebur Seketi gamelan gong kebyar; FSU performance, 23 Nov. 1996 Kreasi Beleganjur gamelan beleganjur; FSU performances, 12 Apr. 1996, 30 Mar. 1996
Performances and Related Events as Director of the Artism Ensemble
The Artism Ensemble is an improvisational collective comprising master musicians and improvisers from diverse world cultures performing with children on the autism spectrum and their co-participating parents. The concerts and events below were produced with the aid of a federally funded grant from the National Endowment for the Arts administered by the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs.
• Opening Night Concert, Society for Disability Studies 2013 Conference (International), Orlando, FL, 26 June 2013 • Featured performance by the Artism Ensemble, Tallahassee Youth Orchestras Spring Concert, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee, 5 May 2013 • Seven Days of Opening Nights Saturday Matinee of the Arts, Tallahassee Museum,19 February 2013 • Concert for Florida State University Autism Institute’s 5K Run Arts Fair, 7 April 2012, Southwood Town Center, Tallahassee • Concert, Dohnanyi Recital Hall, Florida State University, 31 March 2012 • Concert, Tallahassee Museum Saturday Matinee of the Arts (Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival), 11 February 2012 • COCA (Council on Culture and Arts) “Culture Club” Inaugural Roundtable: Michael Bakan and the Artism Music-Play Project, Tallahassee Little Theatre, 27 April 2011 • Concert, Florida State University (Westcott 060), 7 April 2011 • Concert, Museum of Florida History (Tallahassee), 12 March 2011 • Concert, Tallahassee Museum Saturday Matinee of the Arts (Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival), 19 February 2011
Performances as Director of FSU Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Balinese Gamelan
Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung was founded in 1995 and performs kebyar, beleganjur, and other Balinese gamelan repertoires. The ensemble programs traditional, neo-traditional, and contemporary Balinese works, as well as original works written for the ensemble. Master Balinese musicians, dancers, and dalang (shadow puppeteers) frequently join the ensemble for residencies involving master classes, workshops, and concerts.
• Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung (FSU Balinese Gamelan) Fall 2014 concert. Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 28 October 2014 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Spring 2014 concert. Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 1 April 2014 • “Twenty Years of World Music with Michael Bakan”*—FSU World Music Rainbow Concert, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, FSU, 28 March 2014 (*performed as percussion soloist with all nine FSU world music ensembles, plus guest ensemble Cuarteto del Sur and Maharajah Flamenco Trio)
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• Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Fall 2013 concert. Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 29 October 2013 • John Cage prepared piano works arranged for Balinese gamelan, John Cage Symposium, Lindsay Recital Hall, FSU, 27 October 2012 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung (FSU Balinese Gamelan) Fall 2012 concert, with featured Balinese dancer I Gusti Ayu Candra Dewi (Candra). Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 22 October 2012 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Spring 2012 concert, with featured Balinese dancer I Gusti Ayu Candra Dewi (Candra). Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 29 March 2012 • Rainbow Concert of World Music, with Balinese dancer Candra, Ruby Diamond Auditorium (RDA), FSU, 23 March 2012 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung (FSU Balinese Gamelan) Spring 2011 concert, with featured Balinese dancer I Gusti Ayu Candra Dewi (Candra). Opperman Music Hall (OMH), FSU, 29 March 2011 • Rainbow Concert of World Music, with Balinese dancer Candra, Ruby Diamond Auditorium (RDA), FSU, 25 March 2011 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Fall 2010 concert, with Balinese dancer Candra, OMH, FSU, 2 November 2010 • Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Spring 2010 concert, with Balinese dancer Candra, OMH, FSU, 10 April 2010 • Rainbow Concert of World Music, with Balinese dancer Candra, OMH, FSU, 30 March 2010 • FSU Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, with Balinese dancer Candra, OMH, FSU (1 Dec. 2009) • Balinese gamelan concert and lecture-demonstration, Tallahassee Community College (13 Nov. 2008) • FSU Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH, FSU (5 Nov. 2008) • FSU Rainbow Concert of World Music gamelan concert, RDA (28 March 2008) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (27 Nov. 2007) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, with guest Balinese musician I.K.G. Asnawa and Balinese dancer Ayu Putu Niastarika, RDA (23 and 24 March 2007) • The Music of I Ketut Gede Asnawa, featuring guest Balinese musician I Ketut Gede Asnawa performing with Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung, OMH (8 Jan. 2007) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (7 Dec. 2006) • World Music Stage gamelan program, North Florida Fair, Tallahassee (28 Nov. 2006) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (6 Nov. 2005) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (16 Apr. 2005) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, Ruby Diamond Auditorium (RDA), FSU (2 Apr. 2005) • Indonesian Cultural Night Fundraising Banquet for Tsunami, gamelan program, University Center, FSU (1 Apr. 2005) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (30 Nov. 2004) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (18 Apr. 2004) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, RDA (14 Apr. 2004) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (9 Nov. 2003)
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• Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (17 Apr. 2002) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, RDA (6 Apr. 2002) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (20 Nov. 2001) • Florida State University Sesquicentennial World Music Concert, OMH (24 Sept. 2001) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (10 Apr. 2001) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, RDA (7 Apr. 2001) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH, featuring guest Balinese musician and dancer I Nyoman Sedana (25 Oct. 2000) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (9 Apr. 2000) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (12 Nov. 1999) • Vision 2020: Housewright Symposium in Music Education Opening Night Concert, OMH (23 Sept. 1999) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, featuring guest Balinese dancers I Nyoman Sedana and Ni Wayan Seniasih, OMH (10 Apr. 1999) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, RDA (20 Mar. 1999) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (13 Nov. 1998) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, RDA (10 Apr. 1998) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, featuring guest dancer I Nyoman Sedana, OMH (27 Mar. 1998) • World Percussion Spectacular, OMH (18 Oct. 1997) • National Association of Schools of Music Student Recital gamelan program, OMH (30 Sept. 1997) • Inaugural Rainbow Concert of World Music, featuring guest Balinese dancer I Nyoman Wenten, RDA (28 March 1997) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (23 March 1997) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (23 Nov. 1996) • An Evening of Musical Delight (University Musical Associates concert), OMH (11 May 1996) • Mid-Festival Concert, FSU Eighth Biennial Festival of New Music, OMH (12 Apr. 1996) • Spring Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (30 Mar. 1996) • Fall Festival of World Music gamelan concert, OMH (17 Nov. 1995)
Performance as Director of Omnimusica (FSU Intercultural Ensemble)
• FSU Fall Festival of World Music, Opperman Music Hall, 26 October 2014 • Lincoln High School Choirs Fall Concert, with Special Guests Omnimusica, 9 October 2014 • FSU Spring Festival of World Music, Opperman Music Hall, 2 April 2014 • Omnimusica Ashrei CD Release Party, Waterworks (Tallahassee), 1 March 2014 • World Music Festival Spring Concert, What Café, Tallahassee (27 April 2013) • Rainbow Concert of World Music, Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, FSU (22 March 2013) • School of Music, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (24 February 2013) • Florida Alliance for Arts Education Conference, Appleton Museum, Ocala, FL (23 February 2013)
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• Gleason Performing Arts Center, Florida Institute of Technology Performing Arts Series, Melbourne, FL (22 February 2013) • 2012 African Caribbean Concert, Lee Hall Auditorium, Florida A&M University (29 November 2012) • Fall Festival of World Music Concert, Opperman Music Hall, FSU (22 October 2012) • Spring Festival of World Music Concert, Dohnanyi Recital Hall, FSU (5 April 2012)
TEACHING
Teaching Awards
2010 Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award 1999 Florida State University Teaching Incentive Program Award 1998 Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award
Doctoral Dissertations Directed
Mia Gormandy (Spring 2016). Pan in Japan: Transnationalism and its cultural effects on a national art of Trinidad and Tobago. (Recipient of the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship 2014-2015 of the American Musicological Society) CURRENT POSITION: Ph.D. Candidate (Ethnomusicology), Florida State University;
Janine Tiffe. (Spring 2015). Steel drums and the American steel band movement: A history of pan and the evolution of steel bands in American universities. CURRENT POSITION: Ph.D. Candidate (Ethnomusicology), Florida State University; Instructor of World Music, Kent State University
Carlos Odria. 2014 (Fall). “Seeking a new path”: Pasacalle activists practicing culture in Villa El Salvador, Peru. (Moellership Program Fellow) CURRENT POSITION: Director, Guitar Program, Darton State College, Darton, GA
Elizabeth Clendinning. 2013. Pedagogy, performance, and community in the transnational Balinese traditional performing arts scene. (International Dissertation Semester Resaerch Fellowship) CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Wake Forest University (tenure-track)
Todd Rosendahl. 2012. Music and queer culture: Negotiating marginality through musical discourse at Pride Toronto. CURRENT POSITION: Director, School Outreach, Time Out Youth, Charlotte, NC (largest LGBTQ youth organization in the Carolinas)
Plamena Kourtova. 2012. Slavi Trifonov and the commodification of nationalism: Popular culture, popular music, and the politics of identity in postsocialist Bulgaria, 1990-2005.
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CURRENT POSITION: Freelance pianist (has not applied for academic positions due to spouse’s current position in Tallahassee)
Sara Brown. 2012. “Every word is a song, every step is a dance”: Participation, agency, and the expression of communal bliss in Hare Krishna festival kirtan. CURRENT POSITION: New mother (will enter the academic job market in the coming year)
Margaret Jackson. 2010. The poets of Duisburg: Risk and hip-hop performance in a German inner city. (DAAD--Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst; AAUW dissertation research fellowship; FSU Graduate Research and Creativity Award) CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Florida State University (tenure-track)
Laurie Semmes. 2002. Identity, transmission, and transformation in Ukrainian-American bandura education and performance. (P.E.O. Scholar Award) CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology (tenured), Appalachian State University
Jennifer Ladkani Fryns (Ladkani). 2001. Dabke music and dance and the Palestinian refugee experience: on the outside looking in. (Fulbright Scholar; FSU Graduate Research and Creativity Award) CURRENT POSITION: Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, College of Florida
Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum. 1999. Urban Bush Women: Building community and empowering the disempowered through a holistic performing arts medium. CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Music (tenured), Illinois State University
Master’s Theses Directed
Alexandria Carrico. 2014. Discovering “diffability”: Musical experiences and perspectives of individuals with Williams Syndrome at Whispering Trails. Michelle Jones. 2014. Movement in the elementary music classroom: Good citizenship in action(s). Elyse Marrero. 2012. Performing neurodiversity: Musical accommodation by and for an adolescent with autism. Todd Rosendahl. 2009. Working it out on the dance floor: The role of music and dance clubs in an emerging pansexual culture. Elizabeth Clendinning. 2009. Narratives of Sesame Street: Music, memory, and meaning. Gabrielle Giron. 2007. Norovbanzad's legacy: Contemporary concert long song in Mongolia. Plamena Kourtova. 2006. Lifted up by the power of the saints: Prihvanati, music, and embodied experience in the firewalking rituals of two Bulgarian nestinari. Trevor Harvey. 2006. A circle of friends: Informal musicking within an old-time music community. Román Ferrer. 2000. The rumba-flamenca complex: Intersections of North American, Latin, and
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Spanish music and culture in South Beach, Miami. Brian Carey. 2000. A Journey to the other side: Sacred and secular Latin percussion traditions in the life of a tambor warrior. Larry App. 1997. The professionalization and commodification of steel band music in Florida: Musical continuity and change in the Caribbean diaspora. Ronald Dunn. 1997. The marimba in Tijuana, Mexico: Music in a tourist economy.
Courses Taught at Florida State University
MUH 2051-03/04/05 Music in World Cultures Online (for non-music majors) MUH 2051 Music in World Cultures (for non-music majors) MUH 2052 Music in World Cultures II (for non-music majors) MUH 2512 Music in World Cultures (for music majors) MUH 2513 Music in World Cultures II (for music majors) MUN 2491-08 New World Music Ensemble MUN 2800-02 Balinese Gamelan HUM 2937 Humanities Honors Seminar in Ethnomusicology/World Music MUH 3053 American Roots Music MUH 4571 Music of Indonesia MUN 4803-02 Balinese Gamelan MUS 4905 Directed Individual Study MUL 4931 Special Topics: Music of Indonesia MUH 5576 Music of Indonesia MUH 5580 Introduction to Ethnomusicology MUH 5581 Seminar in Ethnomusicology MUH 5587 Seminar in World Music Cultures MUH 6688 Advanced Seminar in Musicology (Doctoral, Ethnomusicology) MUL 5936 Special Topics: Music of Indonesia MUN 4494-08 New World Music Ensemble MUN 5496-08 New World Music Ensemble MUN 5806-02 Balinese Gamelan MUS 5906 Directed Individual Study MUS 5910 Supervised Research MUS 5940 Supervised Teaching MUS 5971 Thesis MUS 6980 Dissertation
Teaching Excellence Series
“Active Learning in Introduction to Music in World Cultures.” FSU 2010 Teaching Excellence Series. http://learningforlife.fsu.edu/ctl/explore/2010teachExcellenceSeries.cfm
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SERVICE
To the Profession
Co-Chair, Applied Ethnomusicology Section, Society for Ethnomusicology (2014-pres.) Program Committee, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, PA Series Editor, Routledge Focus on World Music Series (2008-pres.) Society for Ethnomusicology Robert Stevenson Prize Committee (2006-2008 and 2012-pres.) Expert Evaluator, Council for the Humanities of Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council) (2011-2012) External Evaluator, Percussive Arts Society World Percussion Ensemble Competition (2010- 2011) Editorial Board, Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive (EVIADA) (2005-2010) Program Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter Annual Meeting (2006) Local Arrangements Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (2003—Miami) Society for Ethnomusicology Council (2002-2005) Chief Advisory Consultant, Society for Ethnomusicology Education Committee (1999-2005) College Music Society Mentoring Committee (1999-2000) Board of Advisors, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (1998-2009) Program Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (1996) Tenure and promotion evaluator for numerous university music schools and departments (2000- pres.) Program Committee Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (1998 and 2008) President, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (1997-1998) National Endowment for the Arts Site Evaluator (Historical Museum of South Florida “Caribbean Percussion Traditions in Miami” exhibit) (1997) Treasurer, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (1996-1997) Program Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (1996) Vice President, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (1995-1996) Peer reviewer of article submissions for scholarly journals (Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, World of Music, College Music Symposium, Yearbook for Traditional Music, etc.) and book manuscript submissions for scholarly presses (Illinois, Temple, Routledge, Cambridge, Oxford, California, etc.) (1995-pres.)
To Florida State University Curriculum Committee, College of Music (2014-pres.) Chair, Ethnomusicology Assistant Professor Search Committee (2011-2012) Director, World Music Certificate Program, College of Music (2008-pres.) Head of World Music (performance and ensembles programs) (2008-pres.) Head of the Ethnomusicology Program within the Musicology Area (2008-2012) Chair, Ethnomusicology Graduate Curriculum and Diagnostic Examinations Restructuring Committee (2007-2008) University Academic Honesty Policy Hearings Committees (2006-2007)
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Classroom Technology Enhancement Committee (2005-06) College of Music Dean Search Committee (2004-05) Faculty Advisor, FSU Indonesian Students Association (2003-2005) Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Search Committee, Position 1 (2002-2003) Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Search Committee, Position 2 (2002-2003) University Teaching and Advising Awards Committee (2000-2003) University Travel Grants Advisory Committee (2000-2002) Faculty Advisor, FSU Society for Musicology (graduate student organization) (multiple annual terms since 2000) Contemporary Media Committee, College of Music (1999-2000) Assistant Professor of Historical Musicology Search Committee (1997-1998) Assistant Professor of Jazz Percussion Search Committee (1997-1998) Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Search Committee (1998-1999) Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education Course Clinician (Gamelan) (1996-1999) Percussion Juries Adjudication Committee, College of Music (1994-pres.) International Programs Committee, College of Music (1994-pres.)
To the Community
Lectures, concerts, performances and workshops, fundraisers, and other presentations for numerous visiting and local organizations, including:
Council on Culture and Arts for Tallahassee/Leon County (COCA) Epilepsy Association of the Big Bend Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Florida Literacy Coalition Fourth Avenue Cultural Enrichment Program for at-risk youth FSU Autism Institute FSU Cawthon Hall Colloquium Series FSU Center for Autism and Related Disabilities FSU Center for Civic Engagement FSU Foundation Board of Trustees FSU Honors Colloquium FSU International Student Center FSU Medical School FSU Musical Associates FSU Seminole Boosters FSU Summer Music Camps FSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Sophomore Honors Colloquium FSU Musical Associates International Quarterly John Johnson Elementary School World Music Festival (Bainbridge, Georgia) Leadership Tallahassee Literacy Volunteers of Leon County Maclay Gardens Maclay School (Tallahassee)
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Museum of Florida History Music Educators National Conference National Association of Schools of Music National Public Radio affiliate WFSU-FM Nene Fest North Florida Fair Polk County High Schools Orchestra Opening Nights Arts Festival (Tallahassee) Tallahassee Community College Tallahassee Community College President’s Circle Artist Reception Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Tallahassee Museum Tallahassee Senior Center Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra Tallahassee/Leon County Human Services Center’s “Around-the-World Project” TEDxFSU Temple Israel Synagogue The Australian Girls’ Choir The Music Scene for Families (FSU College of Music/University Musical Associates) The School of Arts and Sciences (Tallahassee) Unitarian Universalist Church Unity in the Community Festival Winter Park High School Orchestra
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2013 National Endowment for the Arts/Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs grant for the Artism Musicultural Center of Florida (3rd year renewal) 2012 National Endowment for the Arts/Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs grant for the Artism Musicultural Center of Florida (2nd year renewal) 2011 National Endowment for the Arts/Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs Grant 11-8504: The Artism Ensemble and the Artism Musicultural Center of Florida—medical ethnomusicology program for children on the autism spectrum and their families and for raising autism awareness. 2011 Remo, Inc., product endorsement grant for the Artism Musicultural Center of Florida (provision of Exploratory World Music Playground [E-WoMP] percussion instruments). 2010 Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award 2008-2009 Krebs Endowment Faculty Research Award, Musicology Area, College of Music, FSU, for the Music-Play Project, a program for children on the autism spectrum and their families. 2007 Series Editor (ABC-CLIO World Music Series) for the book The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History (ABC-CLIO, 2004), by Philip V. Bohlman, winner of the British Academy’s 2007 Derek Allen Prize in Musicology. 2005 Series Editor (ABC-CLIO World Music Series) for the book Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia (ABC-CLIO, 2004), Choice Oustanding Academic Title, 2005.
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2005 Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Summer Award, FSU Council on Research and Creativity, in support of the Music-Play Project, a program for children on the autism spectrum and their families. 2001 Florida State University Developing Scholar Award. 2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection: Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (University of Chicago Press, 1999), by Michael B. Bakan. 2000 Instructional Development Grant, FSU Council on Instructional Development. 1999 Florida State University Teaching Incentive Program Award 1998 Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award 1995 Florida State University First Year Assistant Professor Award 1992-1993 Laffin Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles 1992 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1992 Asian Cultural Council Dissertation Research Fellowship 1992 Institute for Intercultural Studies Dissertation Research Award 1988-1992 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship 1986 Graduate Entrance Fellowship in Ethnomusicology, UCLA 1985 Eaton Graduating Scholarship, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto (highest student award of the UT Faculty of Music) (1985). 1984 Concerto Competition Winner, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto 1981-1983 Arts Grant “B” in Jazz Composition and Performance, Canada Council for the Arts
References
Available upon request.
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