Volume 49, Number 1 Winter 2015 Ethnomusicologists x Ethnomusicologists Features Ethnomusicologists x Terry E. Miller Interviewed by Patricia Shehan Campbell Ethnomusicologists [1, Born and raised in Dover, Ohio, Terry E. Miller has studied the musics of Mainland 4, 6, 8] Southeast Asia (especially Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam), China, and oral traditions in President’s Report hymnody in the Americas, the West Indies, and the United Kingdom. Having taught at President Beverley Kent State University for 30 years (he retired in 2005) he is an active member of The Diamond [3, 5] Siam Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology (Treasurer, 1995-2000), the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Society for Asian Music (President, 1994-1999). He founded the Kent State University Thai Ensemble in 1978 (which continues to this day as the only active Thai ensemble in the U.S.) and KSU Chinese Ensemble (1988-2005). His published scholarship includes Traditional Music of SEM the Lao: Kaen Playing and Mawlum Singing in Northeast Thailand (1985), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia, A History of Siamese Music Announcements Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505-1932 (with Jarernchai Chonpairot, 2004), SEM Prizes, and World Music: A Global Journey (with Andrew Shariari, 2012, third edition). His Tina Ramnarine [5, 7] recordings for Lyrichord, World Music Institute, and New Alliance Records include New Honorary Members Americans: Music of Laos—Khamvong Isiziengmai, The Song of the Phoenix: Sheng Portia K. Maultsby by Ei- Music from China, Thailand: Lao Music of the North- leen Hayes [11] east, Vietnam: Mother Mountain and Father Sea, and Adrienne Kaeppler, Ricardo Eternal Voices: Traditional Vietnamese Music in the Trimillos [12] United States (with Phong Nguyen). Jeff Todd Titon by Timo- thy Cooley and Gregory PC: How did you “find” the field of ethnomusicology? Melchor-Barz [13-14] TM: I didn’t find it; it found me. Long before I knew of the field or its methods, I was doing fieldwork of some sort, starting in high school researching covered bridges, then in the early 1970s recording Appalachian religious music in Indiana and Alabama. I had some News awareness of ethnomusicology by then, but when I was : [10] at Indiana University it was located at the other end of Member News the campus. Then I went to Thailand for my disserta- CMS: tion research (12/72-3/74), and I learned by doing and Transforming Music from by reading Merriam’s The Anthropology of Music. Its Foundations, Patricia Shehan Campbell [14] PC: How did your early life prepare you for work as an ethnomusicologist? Report: TM: I began researching the covered bridges of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, while in American Anthropological junior high school. (My father began photographing covered bridges in 1953 and took his Association, Lila Ellen Gray eight-year-old son along. Later it became my hobby and my father dropped out.) I spent [16] hundreds of hours in the county courthouse reading the county commissioners’ journals going back to about 1810. Then I went out into the county after I could drive to ask older people about their memories of the bridges. PC: What did you study as an undergraduate student? Where? When? TM: I got a BM in organ performance at the College of Wooster, 1963-67, because I intended to become a church musician. Our Back Pages PC: As an organist, how did you arrive to the study of shape note and oral hymnody? Conference Calendar [15-16] TM: I was interested in religious music. I “discovered” oral traditions of both hymnody and shape notes at Indiana University, 1968, taking Prof. Hans Tischler’s course, “Per- Ethnomusicology formance Practice since 1750.” The class was simply: Do research and write four term Internet Resources [17] papers. That’s how I stumbled on the topics. 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