Hicham Chami, PhD student in Ethnomusicology, is the recipient of the 2022 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.
Alessandra Ciucci, Hicham Chami, Paola Cossermelli Messina and Jessie Rubin were awarded an Art & Science Equity and Diversity Grant for "Decolonizing the Ear: Reimagining 'West Asia' in Asian Music Humanities."
Alessandra Ciucci, assistant professor of music, has published a new monograph The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. The book is available through the University of Chicago Press.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Tom Wetmore, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Music (Ethnomusicology), titled "Jazz Steel": An ethnography of race, sound, and technology in spaces of live performance" on April 4, 2022.
Audrey Amsellem has been awarded the 2021 SSN Early Career Researcher Prize for her paper: "The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC,” by Surveillance & Society and the Surveillance Studies Network.
There is a call for papers for the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, which is being held through Zoom on April 23, 2022. The deadline for papers is March 4, 2022.
Professor Kevin Fellezs has published an article in the journal Rock Music Studies. The article is titled "Those Days Are Gone Forever: Steely Dan's Grumpy Old Guys' Blues."
Current Musicology is thrilled to announce the publication of its 108th issue (Spring, 2021).
Kyle DeCoste has been awarded the Zora Neale Hurston Prize by the American Folklore Society for his work with the Stooges Brass Band in writing their book, Can't Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game.
By Greg Betza for Columbia Magazine
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program (LAJPP) was profiled by Paul Hond in the Fall 2021 issue of Columbia Magazine.
Audrey Amsellem has published her article: "Alexa and the Making of the Neoliberal Ear" in Law Text Culture.
Professor Kevin Fellezs has received an Honorable Mention as the 2021 Best Subsequent Book Award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).
Kyle DeCoste has won the 2021 Peter Narvaez Memorial Student Paper Prize from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Canada for his paper “Lil Chano from 79th: Voicing Black Boy Joy in the Music of Chance the Rapper.”
Dr. Kevin C. Holt (Ethnomusicology ‘18) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University, SUNY, where he will be teaching the department’s first core course centered on hip-hop music.
Audrey Amsellem has published "The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC" in the journal "Surveillance & Society."
Dr. Ruth Opara, a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Music at Columbia University, is excited to share that she has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Arts and Music Histories at Syracuse University.
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira, who on May 21, 2021 successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Ethnomusicology entitled "Resonances of Land: silence, noise and extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon."
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Mario Cancel-Bigay, who on May 17, 2021 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Ethnomusicology entitled "Sounds that Fall Through the Cracks, and Other Silences and Acts of Love: Decoloniality and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rican 'Nueva Canción' and 'Chanson Québécoise.'"