Ingrid Monson
Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment
Address:
Harvard University
Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.2791
Fax: 617.496.8081
Email: imonson@fas.
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
[African and African American Studies 182. Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Funk]
[Literature and Arts B-82. Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue]
Music 209r. Ethnomusicology: Seminar
Biography
Professor Monson specializes in jazz, African American music, and music of the African diaspora. She is author of Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996) winner of the Sonneck Society's Irving Lowens award for the best book published on American music in 1996. Her most recent work is on Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa, 1950-1967, (2005). She is also editor of The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (2000). This collection of essays presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora that engage with the broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Contributors include Akin Euba, Veit Erlmann, Eric Charry, Lucy Durán, Jerome Harris, Travis Jackson, Gage Averill, and Julian Gerstin.
Ingrid Monson has published articles in Ethnomusicology, Critical Inquiry, World of Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Women and Music. She is also a trumpet player.
Professor Monson earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology from New York University, her B.M. from New England Conservatory of Music, and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Economics.
Recent Publications
Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa, 1950-1967, (Oxford University Press, 2005)
(Editor.) The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective, (Garland Press, 2000)
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction, (University of Chicago Press, 1996)