Dr. Laina Dawes (PhD, 2022) has been awarded a two-year John P. Murphy Fellowship at Case Western Reserve’s Center for Popular Music Studies.
Professor Alessandra Ciucci was interviewed on the CaMP Anthropology blog about her book The Voice of the Rural. "CaMP" stands for "Communication, Media and Performance."
After two years working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, first as a recipient of the Early Career Fellowship in the Music Department and then as a Core Lecturer of Contemporary Civilization, Mario Cancel Bigay will be a Clinical Assistant Professor in Global Musicology at NYU’s Liberal Studies School.
The Columbia University Department of Music is delighted to welcome back Dr. Ruth Opara as Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology in the Fall of 2023. She previously was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department from 2020–21.
Dr. Scott Gray Douglass (postdoctoral research scholar) has published an article in the "International Journal of Music Education" entitled "Fishers of Song: Music Education and Community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar."
Professor Kevin Fellezs has published an article, "The Ultra-Violence: Death Angel and Asian American Presence/Absence in Heavy Metal."
This event bridges the worlds of scholarship, performance, and criticism to think through the possibilities for feminist opera studies and women in opera in the twenty-first century.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Nandini Banerjee-Datta, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled “Songs of action, songs of calm: Rabindranath Tagore and the aural fabric of Bengali life in America” on November 17, 2022.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Althea SullyCole, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled “Mandé Instruments at the Met: Analyzing Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Context of an African Musical Instrument Collection in the Museum” on October 13, 2022.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mary Catherine Stoumbos, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled “Student citizens: Whiteness, inequality, and social reproduction in marketized music education” on September 29, 2022.
Professor Alessandra Ciucci has contributed a chapter to a new interdisciplinary collection on the Black Mediterranean: Black Med, edited by the artistic duo Invernomuto and published by Humboldtbooks.
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for a full-time, tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in Ethnomusicology to begin July 1, 2023.
The Arabic translation of Alessandra Ciucci's writing on Moroccan professional female singer-dancers (shikhat) and on the musicopoetic genre ‘aiṭa, was published as a collection by the Edition La Croisée des Chemins in partnership with the Académie du Royaume du Maroc.
Professor Alessandra Ciucci was interviewed by "Columbia News" about the release of her new book "The Voice of the Rural."
The Department of Music is pleased to announce that Scott Douglass has joined the Department as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Laina Dawes, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled “Freedom Ain’t Free:” Race and Representation(s) in Extreme Heavy Metal" on June 8, 2022.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Audrey Amsellem, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled "Sound and Surveillance: The Making of the Neoliberal Ear" on May 16, 2022.
Drs. Alessandra Ciucci and Bill Dougherty (DMA 2021) have been selected as Fellows at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.