Leslie Gay

Leslie C. Gay Jr., Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. He has published articles and reviews on American music and culture in the journals Ethnomusicology, American Music, and World of Music. His research also appears in Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 2005, edited by Jennifer C. Post). With his collaborator, Rene Lysloff, he conceptualized, co-edited, and contributed to Music and Technoculture (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), which examines emerging and dynamic relationships among music, culture, and technology.Dr. Gay has published research on indie rock musicians in New York City and music publishing in the 19th-century United States. Currently, he is completing a book on the reception of African American music in Denmark, with the working title Rhythmic nation: African American music and Danish identity. He began this continuing historical and ethnographic research with a Fulbright Scholar grant in 2002, at which time he also served on the faculty of Aarhus University (Arhus, Denmark).Leslie Gay is a member of the editorial board of the journal Jazz Perspectives. He remains active within the Society for Ethnomusicology where he served on the Program Committee for 55th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (2010) and on the Waterman Prize Committee for the Popular Music Section (2008-2010). He currently serves on the SEM Audio/Visual Publications Committee and the Advisory Council of the Southeast and Caribbean Chapter of the Society.Bio courtesy of his faculty page.