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Gavin D. Douglas Curriculum Vitae Address 605 Park Ave. Greensboro N.C. USA 27405 email: [email protected] Academic Training 2001 PHD (Ethnomusicology) — University of Washington Dissertation: State Patronage of Burmese Traditional Music 1993 MMUS (Musicology/Ethnomusicology) — University of Texas at Austin Thesis: Popular Music in Canada: Globalism and the Struggle for National Identity 1991 BA (Philosophy) — Queen’s University 1990 BMUS (Performance Classical Guitar) — Queen’s University Academic Appointments 2020 (Aug)- Professor, Ethnomusicology (Music) Adjunct Professor (Anthropology) 2008-2020 Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology College of Visual and Performing Arts. UNC Greensboro 2016-2019 Head, Musicology/Ethnomusicology Area, School of Music, UNC Greensboro 2012-2016 Head, Music Studies Department (Musicology/Ethnomusicology/Theory) School of Music, Theatre and Dance. UNC Greensboro 2002-2008 Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology School of Music. UNC Greensboro Publications (Books) 2010 Music in Mainland Southeast Asia: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated into Chinese, 2015. Publications (Peer reviewed) Forthcoming “Metta, Mudita, and Metal: Dhamma Instruments in Burmese Buddhism,” Yale Journal of Music and Religion. Forthcoming “Kindred Spirits: Shifting Identities in Burmese Performing Arts” in Exploring Ecologies of Human and Animal Relations in the Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Gavin D Douglas —Curriculum Vitae, Pg. 2 Patricia Hardwick and Made Mantle Hood, editors (currently contracted with NIAS Press and under review) 2020 “Music in Myanmar (Burma): Expressing Commonalities and Differences,” in Global Music Cultures. Bonnie Wade and Patricia Campbell, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. 2019 “Sound Authority in Myanmar,” in Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia. Nathan Porath, ed. Singapore: NIAS Press. Pp: 283-306. 2019 “Burma/Myanmar: History, Culture, Geography,” in The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Janet Sturman J. ed. Sage Publications, Inc. 2019 “Burma/Myanmar: Contemporary Performance Practice,” in The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Janet Sturman, ed. Sage Publications, Inc. 2019 “Human/Other Relations in Burmese Performing Arts: Dissolving the Boundaries of Self” Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Patricia Matusky and Wayland Quintero (eds). Department of Sabah Museum, Sabah, Malaysia. Pp: 253-256. 2017 “Buddhist Soundscapes in Myanmar: Dhamma Instruments and Divine States of Consciousness.” Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Mohd Anis Md Nor and Patricia Matusky (eds.) Denpasar, Bali: Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI). Pp: 11-15. 2015 “Buddhist Music.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music, New York: Oxford University Press. <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com>. 2014 18 dictionary entries. “De-huum, Dung, Kong pang, Lajay, Ozi, Kong pang, Tet-htet-woo, Than Pat-tala, Cham, Donmin, Kyi-zi, Maung, Maung zaing, Pat-tala, Pat-Waing, Saung- gauk, Si, Walet-kok, in The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments 2nd edition, Jeremy Montagu, ed. 2013 “Performing Ethnicity in Southern Shan State, Burma/Myanmar: The Ozi and Gong Traditions of the Myelat,” Ethnomusicology. Vol. 57, No. 2: 185-206. 2013 “U Ko Ko,” in The New Revised Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Stanley Sadie, ed. London: MacMillan Publishers Ltd. http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html. 2012 “Inle Myint Maung in the American Music Classroom,” in In Celebration of U Myint Maung. A collection of essays in honor of saung-gauk artist Inle Mying Maung. Sarpay Beikman Publ: Yangon, Myanmar. 2011 “Mediated Tradition: The Globalization of Burmese Music,” in Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music, Musicians, and History: Essays in Honor of Robert Garfias. Timothy Rice, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press. Pp: 181-194. 2010 “Implementing Change in Music History Teaching: Some Thoughts on Teaching Music History from an Ethnomusicological Perspective,” in Vitalizing Music History Teaching. College Music Society Series Monographs in American Music. Pp: 27-44. 2007 “Myanmar’s Nation-Building Cultural Policy: Traditional Music and Political Legitimacy,” in Authenticity and Cultural Identity: Performing Arts in Southeast Asia. Yoshitaka Terada, ed. National Museum of Ethnology (NME) Senri Ethnological Reports 65, Osaka, Japan. Pp: 27-41. Gavin D Douglas —Curriculum Vitae, Pg. 3 2005 “Burmese Music and the World Market,” Anthropology Today. Vol. 21. No. 6: 5-9. 2005 “Who’s Performing What? State Patronage and the Transformation of Burmese Music,” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty First Century. Monique Skidmore, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 229-247. 2005 “Myanmar (Burma),” in The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol 4. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver and Peter Wicke, eds. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. Pp: 196-202. 2003 “The Myanmar University of Culture: For Patriotism and National Unity,” Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore. Vol. 141 (September): 261-281. 2003 “The Sokayeti Performing Arts Competition of Burma/Myanmar,” The World of Music. Vol. 45 (1): 35-54. 1998 “Nation Building Through Burmese Traditional Music,” SEASPAN: The Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies. Vol. XII, no. 1. Publications (Other) 2020 “Opening a Window in the Music Building” UNC Greensboro Chapter, American Association of University Professors. State of the Campus Essays. 2020 Book review, Forbidden Songs of the Pgaz K’Nyau. Suwichan Phattanaphraiwan (“Chi”). Trans. by Benjamin Fairfield for Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 8. Asian Music. 51 (1). 139-141. 2018 Book review, The Lisu: Far from the Ruler. Michele Zack. Journal of Folklore Research. http://www.jfr.indiana.edu/review.php?id=2251 2018 Book review, Listening to War. Martin Daughtry. Ethnomusicology. Vol 62, no. 1. 139-144. 2017 Music Cultures of the World. Online Course Text. UNCG Online. (approx. 40 pages of text). 2016 “Foreword” to Understanding Indian Classical Music. By Gaurang Doshi. www.sarodsitar.com 2016 “Foreword” to The Riff from Mandalay: Burma Kipling and Western Music. By Andrew Selth. NY: Routledge. 2015 Book review, Music, Politics and Violence. Susan Fast and Kip Pegley. Eds. Ethnomusicology. Vol 59, no. 1. 2012 Recording review, Birmanie: Musique du théâtre classique/Burma: Classical Theatre Music in Asian Music. Vol 43, no. 1: 143-145. 2011 Book review, Music and Conflict, John Morgan O’Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo- Branco, eds. in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. Vol 68, no. 1: 109-112. 2011 Recording review, Music of Myanmar: Buddhist Chant in the Pāli Tradition. Celestial Harmonies. 14219-2. Ethnomusicology. Vol. 54, no. 4: 160-162. 2011 Book review, Theorizing the Local: Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond. Richard Wolf ed. American Ethnologist Vol. 38, no.2: 390-391. Gavin D Douglas —Curriculum Vitae, Pg. 4 2010 Recording review Essay, “Maha Gita: Harp and Vocal Music of Burma, Nai Htaw Paing Ensemble: Mon Music of Burma and Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma),” Journal of American Folklore. Vol 122, no. 487: 113-116. 2008 Film review, “The Flute Player and Monkey Chant” (film biographies of Cambodian genocide survivors, their children and their music). Asian Educational Media Service. Vol 30, Fall. 2006 Book review, Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River, by Tracey E. W. Laird. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. Vol. 62, no. 3: 704-706. Scholarly Presentations 2019 “The Transforming Self: Human and Animal in Burmese Performance,” Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting. Bloomington, IN. November 2019. 2019 “Music, Politics, and Fieldwork in Myanmar,” Life@Elon. Elon University, October 2019. 2019 “The Sound World of Myanmar Buddhism” International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) International conference in Bangkok, Thailand. July 2019. 2019 “Music, Sound, and Power from Burma to Myanmar,” Guest Scholar Vassar College, NY. February 18, 2019. 2018 “Animal/Human Relations in Burmese Performing Arts,” ICTM Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. August 2018. 2018 “The Rohingya Crisis: Migration, Performance and Identity,” Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter. New Orleans, LA. March 2018. 2017 “There Is No Such Thing as Music: Some Reflections on International Study and Music” Keynote address. Phi Beta Delta International Scholars Honor Society. UNCG. April 27, 2017. 2017 Music, Sound, Dictatorship, Democracy. University of Arizona, Guest Scholar. Apr 14, 2017 2017 “The Animal Within: Human/Non-Human Interactions in Burmese Performing Arts. Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter. Charleston, SC. March 2016. 2016 “The Music of Zomia: State Resistance in Highland Myanmar” Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting. November 2016. 2016 “Dhamma Instruments and the Cultivation of Divine States of Consciousness.” Biennial Burma Studies Conference. DeKalb. Illinois. Oct 6-9. 2016. 2016 “Buddhist Soundscapes,” ICTM Study Group. Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Penang Malaysia. August 2016. 2016 “The Lady’s Piano.” Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter. San Fernando, Trinidad. March 2016. 2016 “Fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar.”