Curriculum Vitae
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
2001-
Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University
1999-2001
Associate Professor of Music, Washington University in St. Louis
1996-1999
Assistant Professor of Music, Washington University in St. Louis
1999
Quincy Jones Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Departments of Afro-American Studies and Music. Spring term
1995-96
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music. University of Michigan
1991-95
Assistant Professor of Music. University of Chicago
HONORS
1998
The Sonneck SocietyÂ’s Lowens Prize for best book published in American music in 1996 (see Publications).
1996-99
Earle H. and Suzanne S. Harbison Faculty Fellow. Washington University. Awarded to an outstanding member of the junior faculty.
1982
Phi Kappa Lambda (New England Conservatory of Music)
1977
Phi Beta Kappa (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
FELLOWSHIPS
1994-95
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Postdoctoral fellowship
Schomburg Center. New York Public Library. Declined in favor of ACLS
Chicago Humanities Institute. Two-quarter fellowship. Declined in favor of ACLS
1993
Chicago Humanities Institute. Curriculum Planning for Ethnomusicology Ph.D.
1992
Chicago Humanities Institute. One-quarter fellowship. Autumn quarter
1990-91
American Association of University Women (AAUW). Dissertation fellowship
New York University. Dissertation fellowship
1985-86
New York University. Langley Fellowship for graduate study
1985
NEA Jazz Study Fellowship, with trumpeter Woody Shaw
EDUCATION
1991
Ph.D. in Musicology, New York University. Dissertation: "Musical Interaction in Modern Jazz: An Ethnomusicological Perspective"
1989
M.A. in Musicology, New York University. Concentration: Urban Ethnomusicology.
1982
B.M. with honors, New England Conservatory of Music. Major: jazz trumpet
1978
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Major: economics
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2005
Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa
, 1950-1967. An exploration of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on the history of jazz. Oxford University Press.
2000
The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective, Ingrid Monson, editor, Garland Press. A collection of essays presenting 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.
1996
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. University of Chicago Press. Winner of the Sonneck SocietyÂ’s 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for best monograph in American music published in 1996.
Articles
2001
"Miles, Politics, and Image." Appears in volume on Miles Davis edited by Gerald Early. Book accompanied the Miles Davis exhibit at the Missouri Historical Society in May 2001.
“Jazz.” Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 11, The United States and Canada, edited by Ellen Koskoff.
Liner notes. Say it Loud: The History of Black Music America. Rhino records.
“Report of Study Session 22: Theorizing the Transnational." Proceedings of the International Musicological Society, 16th International Congress, London, Royal College of Music, August 14-20th, 1997.
2000
"Monk Meets SNCC." Black Music Research Journal 19(2): 187-200.
1999
"Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization." Ethnomusicology, 43:1(Spring 1999): 31-65.
"George Russell." Article for International Dictionary of Black Composers. Samuel Floyd, editor. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research.
1998
“Oh Freedom: George Russell , John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz." In In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation, edited by Bruno Nettl and Melinda Russell, pp. 149-168. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1997
"Music and the Anthropology of Gender and Cultural Identity." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1(1): 58-67.
“Abbey Lincoln's Straight Ahead: Jazz in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement.” In Between Resistance and Revolution, edited by Richard Fox and Orin Starn, pp. 171-194. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
“What’s Sound Got to Do With It?: Jazz, Poststructuralism, and the Construction of Cultural Meaning," In Creativity in Performance, edited by Keith Sawyer, pp. 95-112. Greenwich, CT: Ablex.
1995
"The Problem With White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse." Journal of the American Musicological Society 48(3): 396-422.
1994
"'Doubleness' and Jazz Improvisation: Irony, Parody and Ethnomusicology." Critical Inquiry 20(2): 283-313. Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, Peter Jeffery and Ingrid Monson
1993
“Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant.” Early Music History 12: 19-81. My section appears on pp. 62-77.
1990
"Forced Migration, Asymmetrical Power Relations and African-American Music: Reformulation of Cultural Meaning and Musical Form." The World of Music 32 (3): 22-43.
Book Reviews and Responses
1999 Â Just My Soul Responding: Rthythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations, by Brian Ward, Yearbook for Traditional Music 31 (1999).
1997
Representing Jazz, and Jazz Among the Discourses, edited by Krin Gabbard, American Music 15(1): 110-113.
1996
New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique, by Ronald M. Radano. Journal of the American Musicological Society 49(2): 326-31.
1995
"Responses" (To Charles Keil). Ethnomusicology 39(1): 89-90.
1994
New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, Josephine Wright with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., eds. Notes 50 (March): 983-85.
1993
Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, John Gray compiler. Notes 49 (March): 1072-1073.
1992
Duke Ellington: The Early Years, by Mark Tucker. Journal of Musicological Research 12 (Supplement): 177S-179S.
1991
You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young, by Frank Büchmann-Møller. Ethnomusicology 35 (1): 117-119.
Peer Review
University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, AR editions, Garland Publishing, Critical Inquiry, Ethnomusicology, Public Culture, American Ethnologist, American Music, Semiotica, Ethnos, Musical Quarterly
Invited Lectures and Conferences
2000
“Change of the Century? The Future of Jazz Scholarship.” Challenges in Norwegian Jazz Research [conference]. Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim, Norway, September 15-17 2000.
"Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite." Jazz Study Group Symposium. Columbia University, May 5-7.
Music Panel. 30th Anniversary Celebration, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, May 8, 2000.
Department of Music, Princeton University, April 4. "Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite."
1999
“Art Blakey’s African Diaspora.” International Conference on “Leadership and Community: Icons from the Past, Models for the Future.” Department of African and Afro-American Studies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 8.
“Jazz, Collaboration and Power: Beyond Romance.” Keynote speaker. Guelph Jazz Festival Symposium. Guelph, Ontario, Canada, September 9.
“Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa 1950-1967.” Department of Music. Columbia University, April 23.
“The Cool War: Jazz, the State Department and Africa.” Improvising Across Borders Conference. University of California, San Diego, Department of Music. Critical Studies and Experimental Practices Program. April 9.
“Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa 1950-1967” Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. Harvard University, April 4.
"Ellington and Politics.” University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Carolina Jazz Festival, A Symposium on Duke Ellington, February 26.
1998
Seminar on Saying Something, Yale University, Department of Art History, April 23.
“Monk Meets SNCC: Carnegie Hall 1963,” University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Carolina Jazz Festival, A Symposium on Thelonious Monk, Feburary 27.
1997
“Oh Freedom: George Russell , John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz,"University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 31.
1996
“Modal Jazz Revisited,” Eastman School of Music, March.
1995
“Teo Macero: Recording Miles,” Conference on “Mediating Musical Cultures,” New York University, Department of Anthropology, April.
“Miles Davis in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement,” Miles Davis Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, April 6-8.
“Benefit Jazz Concerts in the Era of the Civil Rights Movements,” State University of New York, Stonybrook, April.
1994
“What’s Sound Got to Do with It,” University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, November 28.
“Abbey Lincoln's Straight Ahead: Jazz in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement,” Conference on Social Movements, sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Otovalo, Ecuador, June.
Conference Papers
Society for Ethnomusicology 2000, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1989
American Musicological Society 2000, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1988
American Anthropological Association 1992
American Studies Association 1998
COURSES
Undergraduate
American Popular Music from WWII to the present
Music of the African Diaspora
Origins of Jazz to the Swing Era, 1890-1945
Bebop and Beyond: Jazz History from 1940-present
Musics of the World
Jazz, the Civil Rights Movement, and Africa
Jazz improvisational process: WWII to the present
Introduction to Western Music
Graduate
Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Ethnographic Methods
Seminar: African American Music and Culture
Seminar: Music and Language
Seminar: Intersections Among Music, Race, Gender, and Ethnic Identity
Seminar: The New Musicology
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1999-2001
Member-at-Large. Board of Directors. Society for Ethnomusicology.
1999-present
Advisory Board and Consultant. Miles Davis Exhibit 2001. Missouri Historical Society.
1999
Advisory Panel. Journal of the Royal Musical Association (UK).
1999-
Co-editor of American music (with Judith Tick). Musical Quarterly.
1999-2001
Editorial Board. Journal of the American Musicological Society. Thomas Grey, editor.
1998
Program Committee. 1999 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Kansas City, MO.
1998
Editorial Board. Acta Musicologica.
1997-2001
Board member. Committee on the Publication of American Music (COPAM). American Musicological Society.
1997
Editorial Advisory Board. Music in Performance. Journal of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), University of Southampton, José Bowen, editor.
Program Committee. 1997 Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1996
Outreach Committee of the American Musicological Society.
Program Committee. 1997 Sonneck Society, Seattle, WA.
1995
Council of the American Musicological Society. Elected term 1996-1998.
1991 Â
Audio-Visual Chair for the 1991 meeting of the American Musicological Society in Chicago, IL. Member of the Local Arrangements Committee.
1991
Council of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Elected to term 1991-1993.
1989-90
Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
SERVICE
Washington University
1999-present
Curriculum Implementation Committee. Arts and Sciences Division.
1999-
Affirmative Action Committee. Arts and Sciences Division.
1999
“The Cool War: Jazz, the State Department and Africa.” Lecture to the Boston chapter of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society (alumni). April 16.
1997
Organizer. Third annual Miles Davis Conference, "Miles Davis, the Civil Rights Movement and Jazz," May 3-4, with the collaboration of Professor Gerald Early, the African and Afro-American Studies Program, the Music Department, and the American Culture Studies Program.
1997, 1999
Guest lecture for “Global Processes and Local Identities,” a course coordinated by Professor John Bowen, Department of Social Thought and Analysis, and Professor James Wertsch, Department of Education, November 10, November 29.
1997
“Riffs, Repetition, and Globalization,” Lecture to Washington University Century Club donors, November 20.
Co-organizer of “The Sound of Culture,” a conference organized by Professor Richard Fox, Department of Anthropology, September 19-20.
Planning committee for Hewlett curriculum in American Studies, Wayne Fields, chair.
DeanÂ’s advisory committee on Audio-Visual acquisitions.
Guest Lecture on Amiri BarakaÂ’s Blues People, for Afro-American studies course taught by Professor Gerald Early, November 5.
Mylonas Fellowship selection committee. Washington University.
University of Chicago
1993-94
DeanÂ’s Committee on Minority Recruitment, University of Chicago, Thomas Thuerer, chair.
1993
College Council of the University of Chicago.
1992
Organizer. Chicago Humanities Institute symposium. "'Now's the Time: Musicians and Poets on Jazz," December 10, 1992. Participants: Richard Davis, Don Byron, Michael Harper, Elizabeth Alexander, and Ingrid Monson.
1991-93
Development of a graduate curriculum in ethnomusicology, University of Chicago, with Professors Philip Bohlman, and Andrew Apter.
CONSULTING
1999
Advisory Board. “Milestones: A Miles Davis Retrospective.” An exhibit opening May 26, 2001. Missouri Historical Society. St. Louis, MO.
1996
Consultant on series of films about the Swing Era produced by David Stowe. George Nierenberg, director.
PERFORMANCE
1989
Performance in Don ByronÂ’s tribute to Mickey Katz in September 1989 at the Knitting Factory, NYC.
1987-89
Co-leader with Don Byron of The Klezmer Connection, a combination klezmer/jazz ensemble. Engagements at weddings and bar-mitzvahs in the greater New York metropolitan area.
1980-1987
Trumpeter with the Klezmer Conservatory Band. I was a founding member of this nationally known ensemble, which features Yiddish-American instrumental dance (klezmer) music and Yiddish theater music. During my tenure with the band five albums were recorded (see Recordings). A film featuring the band and directed by Michal Goldman (A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden) was released in 1988 and aired on PBS. The band also made frequent appearances on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion."
1980-85
Performances as a jazz trumpeter in the Boston area. Engagements at Ryles, The Willow, and many concerts in Boston area locations.
1980-82
Trumpeter in a salsa band led by Ruben Guity. Weekly engagements at CindyÂ’s, the Latin Paradise, and locations in Lawrence, MA, Bronx, NY, and Providence, RI.
RECORDINGS
Blake, Ran
1980
"A Touch of Evil." Film Noir. Recorded in Boston, MA, January 1980. Arista/Novos AN 3019.
Klezmer Conservatory Band
1981
Yiddish Renaissance. Recorded in Boston, MA, June 1981. Vanguard Records VSD 79450. Previously released on Kleztone.
“Lebedik un Freylekh.” Prairie Home Companion Tourists. Recorded in Boston, October 1981. PHC 808.
1983
Klez! Recorded in New York, NY, June 1982. Vanguard Records VSD 79449.
1985
A Touch of Klez. Recorded in Carlisle, MA, January 1985. Vanguard Records VMD-79455.
1986
Oy Chanukah! Recorded in Boston, MA, November 1985 and September 1986, . Rounder Records 3102.
1988
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden. Recorded in Carlisle, MA, December 1986, Rounder Records 3105.