Mark Lomanno curriculum vita [email protected] (617) 373-4060 Current Position NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, Massachusetts August 2016 – present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts, Media & Design Affiliate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Program, College of Arts, Media & Design Affiliate Faculty, Department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies, College of Social Sciences & Humanities Education Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (2012) Concentration: Ethnomusicology M.A., Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ (2007) Concentration: Jazz History and Research B.A. magna cum laude, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (2002) Majors: Latin and Music Academic Employment ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, Queens, New York Aug. 2015 – Jun. 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Art & Design, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Aug. 2013 – Jun. 2015 Consortium for Faculty Diversity / Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Department of Music and Dance UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, Texas Jun. 2009 – Jul. 2010 Assistant Instructor, Department of Musicology/Ethnomusicology RUTGERS UNIVERSITY NEWARK, Newark, New Jersey Part-time Lecturer, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media Aug. 2005 – Dec. 2006 Research Fields Afro-Atlantic world, African American expressive culture, Canary Islands (and Afro/Canarian diaspora), Caribbean classical and popular piano music of the 19th and 20th centuries (including ragtime), critical improvisation studies, embodied performance practice, island studies, indigenous studies, jazz studies, pedagogy (interdisciplinary practices), translation studies Teaching Fields African and Afro-Latin diasporic music, the Atlantic world, the Caribbean, ethnomusicology (indigenous, traditional, and popular world music; ethnographic methods; urban ethnography), immigrant musics, jazz studies (history, theory, improvisation, piano), the Mediterranean, U.S. popular music (1865 to present), Western European classical music history and theory, writing and research methods 1 Mark Lomanno PUBLICATIONS (*peer-reviewed) Articles * (forthcoming) with Jason Robinson and Sandra Mathern-Smith. “Introduction – Improvisation and the Liberal Arts.” Critical Studies in Improvisation. 2014 “Methodological Potentiality and the Untranslatable: Sounding Difference in the Translating Riff. A Response to Helga Zembrano.” Ethnomusicology Review. (December 18). - “Enunciating Power and Ex…Plosive Time: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s WomanChild and Undoing Silence.” Ethnomusicology Review. (March 18). * 2013 "St. Brendan’s Island and Afro/Canarian (Jazz) Fusion: Emergence and the īnsula improvīsa." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 7/2: 106-120. * 2012 "Ellington’s Lens as Motive Mediating: Improvising Voices in the Far East Suite." Jazz Perspectives 6/1- 2: 151-177. Edited volumes * (in press) “The Rigors of Afro/Canarian Jazz: Sounding Peripheral Vision with Severed Tongues.” In Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath of Crisis, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter. Duke University Press. * (forthcoming) “Emergent Postures: A Pathophysiology of Ethnographic Pianism.” In The Erotic Life of Sound and Movement: Recasting Ethnographic Experience in Africa and the Diaspora, edited by Michelle Kisliuk and Sidra Lawrence. New Perspectives on Gender in Music series. University of Illinois Press. - “The Break and the Mend: Parsing Xenophonic Acoustemologies.” In Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies, edited by Nichole Rustin-Paschal, Tony Whyton, and Nicholas Gebhardt. Routledge Press. * “Curation as Improvisatory, Critical Practice: Sound Breaks 2015 and Processual Interdisciplinarity.” In Exquisite Corpse: Art-Based Writing Practices in the Academy, edited by Nathalie Virgintino and Kate Hansalik. Parlor Press. 2011 Contributing writer. "Jazz in the Middle East." In John Edward Hasse and Tad Lathrop, eds. Discover Jazz. New York: Prentice Hall, 306-308. Editorial Work (forthcoming) Co-editor, special issue on improvisation and the liberal arts, Critical Studies in Improvisation. Reviews 2016 “Book Review. Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity. By Tsitsi Elli Jaji.” Africa—Journal of the International African Institute 86/1 (February): 182-184. 2015 “Review: Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz.” Twentieth-Century Music 12/2 (September): 279-285. 2014 “Book Review - The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop. By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.” Jazz Perspectives 8/1: 93-98. 2013 "The Life of Trans-Atlantic Jazz. Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. By Robin D.G. Kelley." Journal of African History 54/2 (July): 286-288. 2010 "Book Review: Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage. By Michael Titlestad." African Music 8/4: 130-136. 2 Mark Lomanno Encyclopedia Entries 2016 Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Entries on "Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros," "Rubén González," and "Chano Pozo." 2013 Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd. ed., Charles Hiroshi Garrett, ed. Entries on "Justo Almario," "Roy Ayers," "Descarga," "Abdullah Ibrahim," "Ismael Miranda," "Hafez Modirzadeh," "Americo Paredes," "Armando Peraza," "Richie Ray," "Roberto Roena," "Steve Swallow," "Stanley Turrentine," "Hiromi Uehara," "Carlos 'Patato' Valdes," and "Yomo Toro." 2006 Encyclopedia of the Caribbean. John Garrigus and Manuel Barcia, eds. New York: Facts on File. Entries on "Ray Barretto," "Ignacio Cervantes," "Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez," and "Arsenio Rodríguez." (production suspended) Manuscripts in Preparation Translating in the Break: Improvising Resonance and Other Jazz Sounds. A monograph (with publisher agreement) that celebrates collaborative, improvisational music-making as a model for engaging diverse interactions and communities through pedagogy, scholarship, and community advocacy. The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies of Adaptive Performance, Social Engagement, and Creative Practice. An co-edited volume (with Daniel Fischlin) featuring interviews, position statements, pedagogical materials, and commentary by artist/educators discussing intersections of practice-based pedagogies and improvised performance practice in academia, community advocacy, and the arts. “Escape Velocity: Astrotourism, the Canarian Gaze, and Isolation in the Black Atlantic.” Through an expanded interpretation of Afro-Futurism and George Russell’s tonal gravity, this article explores astrophysics research, foreign astrotourism, and space rock/jazz fusion in the Canary Islands, highlighting how Canarian musicians imagine the cosmos as a more easily navigable domain than the normative flows of economic and intellectual capital in the Western world. “Wail: Radical Jazz Pianism and the Precarity of Black Breath.” In this essay, I propose new perspectives on embodied, gendered performance in jazz and black studies by highlighting resonances between the bebop era and the #BlackLivesMatter movement heard most especially in uses and manipulations of the human voice. Recordings (forthcoming, Winter 2017) Pianist and Arranger. Simbeque, vol. 2. Collaborative project with Canarian musicians on album that includes modern, improvised interpretations of traditional Canarian music. 2014 Pianist. Green Horn in a Red State. Richard Oppenheim. Harriton Carved Wax Records. 2013 Pianist and Arranger. Celebrate Brooklyn II. Kike Perdomo. 96K Music. A quartet recording of Afro-Latin jazz, including five of my arrangements, featuring Canarian saxophonist Kike Perdomo. 2011 Pianist. Tales & Tongues. Katchie and Le Monde Caché. Harriton Carved Wax Records. 2010 Pianist. Companion CD track. Robin Moore. Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007 Pianist. Soundtrack to Cuba: Rhythm in Motion. Richmond: University of Richmond. DVD documentary. Recorded "Memoria a Gottschalk" (Manuel Saumell) and "No Bailes Más" (Ignacio Cervantes). 3 Mark Lomanno TEACHING REPERTOIRE Northeastern University Black Popular Music (online) Hip Hop in the Music Industry: Black Music Matters (Spring 2018) Improvisation in the Arts (Fall 2017; undergraduate and graduate) Jazz History (Fall 2016, Fall 2017) Jazz Theory & Improvisation Music in Everyday Life (Spring 2018) Musical Communities of Boston (Spring 2017, Spring 2018) St. John’s University History of Jazz (Fall 2015, Spring 2016) Introduction to Music U.S. Popular Music World Popular Music (Fall 2015, Spring 2016; classroom-based and hybrid versions) Swarthmore College Advanced Jazz Improvisation – Independent Study Advanced Jazz Theory and Arranging – Independent Study Foundations of Ethnomusicology Jazz of the Trans-Atlantic African Diaspora (cross-listed in Black Studies Program) Private Instruction in Jazz Piano, Jazz Theory, and Improvisation Pro-seminar in Jazz Studies: History, Theory, and Improvisation Son Jarocho: Music, History, Culture (supervisor of a student-led course) Traditional Musics of World Cultures U.S. Popular Music History University of Texas at Austin History of Rock Music Introduction to Popular Musics in World Cultures Introduction to Traditional Musics in World Cultures Introduction to Western Music Rutgers University Newark Introduction to Western Music (four semesters) Academic Advising 2015 Jamal