University of Washington

Ethnomusicology Students

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Jonathan
Adams
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Alessi 
alessi@u.washington.edu Graduate student
Percussion, taiko, K-5 world music education, music technology, recording industry.
Percussion, guitar, sanshin. Member of Northwest Taiko and various performing groups. Curriculum writer, radio host (KSER-Everett), song writing with kids.  

Robertson
Allen
roballen@u.washington.edu
Graduate student in sociocultural anthropology
Video games, virtual realities, and online communities.  The militarization of virtual reality.  Music of Japan, Scotland, Ireland, and Appalachia.  Video game music.  History, nostalgia, and tourism.  Semiotics.
Highland bagpipes/shuttle pipes.  Irish penny whistle.  Classical piano.  Sax.  Kazoo.  Obsessive collecting of stuff I can't play.
Personal page

Daniel
Atkinson
wabisabi@u.washington.edu Graduate Student
Field recording.  The Hustle.  The African-American Diaspora and mutations thereof in Japan.  Kabuki music.  Documenting the process of Minstrelsy and Fetish of African Americans all over the world.
As soon as I find something that can't have a dollar value attached to it, I'll let you know.  But I must admit, I enjoy learning to sing.


Michelle Boss Barba
mboss@u.washington.edu M.A. Student
Mexico, esp. Jalisco and La Huasteca.  Spain and the Spanish diaspora to Latin America, esp. Mexico, Argentina, and Cuba.  Scotland and Ireland.  The Middle East.  The relationship of Western art music to folk styles.  Bringing music education to underserved youth.  A little of everything else, too. Piano, guitar, singing, a little viheula, picking up requinto and ney.  I once played cymbals in my university's orchestra...does that make me a cymbalist?
www.ethos-inc.org
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Brent
Bianchi
bbianchi@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
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Sabrina
Bonaparte
sabrib@u.washington.edu M.A. Student  Spanish flamenco and Andalusian folk music.  Middle Eastern and Northern African musical traditions, particularly in Judaism and Islam and the coexistence in Spanish music and culture of past and present.  Balinese gamelan will always be a passion of mine.  Attempting to learn kendang.  Retired horn player (and still rational).
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Lesley
Braden

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Rob 
Carroll 
robcarr@u.washington.edu Ph.C.  Latin America/Caribbean. Venezuela. West Africa. Guitar (electric and acoustic). Venezuelan cuatro.  
 
Kim
Carter
Muñoz 
kcarter@u.washington.edu Graduate student Performance contexts. Network societies. Ideologies and modes of making/representing music. Latin America, Mexico. Huapango, Canto Nuevo and Rock en Español. ...   

Cody
Case
codyc7@u.washington.edu
Graduate student.
Currently in Ghana

African popular music, esp. Ghanaian highlife and hiplife.  African traditional religion, esp. Asante Akom.  African disapora in American music and vice versa.
Palmwine highlife guitar.  Clapping.  Humming.  Watching American Idol.


Claire
Connell

clar@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
Nepalese folk/popular music. Electronic stuff. Traditional Irish ceoil, ol agus craic.
Mbira.  Nepalese sarangi. Fiddle.


Jubilee
Cooke 
jubilee@u.washington.edu Ph.C.  American practice of Hindu deovotional music (bhajan, kirtan, etc.). Foundational period of hip-hop. Sitar.   Learning to play jazz on viola.  
Pamela
Costes 
pgcostes@u.washington.edu Ph.C. Philippines and Southeast Asia, esp. Insular Southeast Asia (SEA). Asian American music, society and culture. Cultural studies. Instruments of the Philippines (Kulintang ens., Philippine Cordillera traditions). Director of the Filipino American Youth Center for Culture and Arts and the Tunog Pilipinong LUMAD ng America (Sound of the Filipino Natives of America) Ensemble.  
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Chris
Davidson

cdavidso@u.washington.edu
Undergraduate
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Rachel
Devitt
redevitt@u.washington.edu Ph.D. student
Gynomusicology forever! Gender and sexuality in popular music.  Bio-queens and femme gender performance.  Filipino pop music and diasporic identity.  Transnationalism.  Feminist theory.  Queer theory. Throat, currently doing the white girl shuffle in gospel choir.  Watching videos, going to shows, and writing music criticism.  

Andrea
Emberly
amember@u.washington.edu Ph.C.  Currently in South Africa
Children's musical cultures. Sesame Street and Takalani Sesame. Children's educational television and popular media. Children's music in rural and urban South Africa. Gynomusicology forever. Representing the leaf. Trumpet. Tibetan dung chen. Didjeridu. Mbira. Shou nei nei's (almost) all-girl hardcore punk pand.  

Elizabeth
Ferlic
 
ferlic@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
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Evan
Gilman
gilmandj@u.washington.edu Undergraduate
Global music confluence.  Futility of Western music theory.  Musical semiotics.  Musical aesthetics.  Noise bands and indeterminist composers.  Photography.  Asian art history.  dadism.  Designers Republic.  Painting.  Visual/musical collage.
Electric guitar. Guqin (formerly). Mandolin (learning). Turntables. Suling(learning). Grinding metallophone keys. Jamming around. Jazzy noise collective.


Mike
Grigoni
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Eben
Haase
ehaase@u.washington.edu M.A. student, Anthropology specializing in Ethnomusicology. Ugandan music, esp. Lugbara funeral songs. Latin America, esp. Vallenato, Currulao, etc. Guitar, various instruments.  
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Sarah
Haney
 
haneys@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
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David
Hebert
davidgabrielmusic@yahoo.com UW Ethno M.A. alumnus pursuing Ph.D. in Music Education; currently in Japan East Asia, esp. Japan. Music education, anthropology of education (Ph.D. in-progress: "An Ethnography of a Japanese Schol Band"). Western classical music, jazz, popular music. Western classical (instrumental conducting, trumpet, composition). Jazz (trumpet, voice, composition). Personal Profile
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Terumi
Hori

th2@u.washington.edu
Undergraduate
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Michael
Horowitz
mhorowit@u.washington.edu Ph.C.
Klezmer, Irish traditional music, and jazz. Dissertation on Gypsy jazz in progress.  Gypsy jazz guitar with Pearl Django, Hot Club Sandwich, and the Djangomatics.  Leader of the Klezmer rock band Heavy Shtetl.
DjangoBooks.com
Jill Ann
Johnson 
jillann@u.washington.edu Ph.C.
The Balkans. Ritual. Historical musicology. Nationalism and identity. Archives. Applied ethnomusicology. 
Teaching and performing Balkan vocal music. Balkan and Swedish dance. A little guitar.  
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Setsuko
Johnson
setsulee@u.washington.edu
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Claire
Jones 
jonesc@u.washington.edu Ph.C.  Ph.D. dissertation in-progress on the recent tradition of Zimbabwean marimbas. Playing and teaching Shona (Zimbabwean) mbira and marimba. Member of Mahonyera (music of the Shona mbira dzavadzimu).  
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Grant
Kidd
 
felodese@u.washington.edu
Undergraduate
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Peter
Klempner

piank@u.washington.edu
Undergrad intemporaliter...
moonlighter/shiner
Central Asia. Hardqore. Performance in ethnomusicology. Everything north of Antarctica and south of the North Pole.
Will play anything I can get my hands on; trumpet, guitar, cuatro, mbira...bangin, blowin, pluckin, strummin, howlin, scratchin


Toby
Kremple
tobyk@u.washington.edu Undergraduate
Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae/Dub/Soul in Jamaica and all over the world. Underground hip-hop. Anthropology of technology. Library science. Elementary education.
Suling. Electric and upright bass. The Georgetown Orbits.
The Georgetown Orbits
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Jane
Lee
jane@ghkim.com
Undergraduate
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Devon
Leger

dleger@u.washington.edu
M.A.
Fiddles. Banjos. Accordions. Bagpipes. Irish music. Chinese music. La musique quebecoise. La musique acadienne. Evil jazz.
Irish fiddle. Quebec fiddle. Cajun fiddle. A couple banjos and accordions. No bagpipes (yet).


Julie
Moser
 
juliecm@u.washington.edu Graduate student
Competitions.  Applied Ethnomusicology.  Performance.  Latin dancing.
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Steve
Nickerson 
snickerson@oc.otc.edu Ph.C.
Teaches music cultures and history of Western classical music at Olympic College.
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 ... Kay
Norton
KayNorton@msn.com Working on dissertation
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Francisco
Orozco

frorozco@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
Music of Mexico and Venezuela. Role of music in social movements. Chicano musical expression in the U.S. Capoeira.
Venezuelan cuatro, bandola, jarana, huapanguera, charango, flamenco guitar, marimbol, berimbau, percussion, squeaky chair.


Peter
Park
petepark@u.washington.edu M.A.
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Yu Qi
cyuqi@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
East Asia (China). Latin America. NW Africa. Western classical music. Popular music.
Professional guzheng (Chinese zither) performer and teacher. Piano.

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Jessica
Quintero

jessiq@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
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Voice.
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Renner 
rennermark@hotmail.com Currently in Indonesia ... ...   
Monica
Rojas
rojasm@u.washington.edu Ph.C. in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in Ethnomusicology. African diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean, especially Peru, Brazil and Cuba. Afro-Peruvian music, esp. coastal genres. Percussionist, dancer.  
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Maiensy
Sanchez
msanch@u.washington.edu
Anthropology
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Kevin
Schattenkirk 
kschatt13@earthlink.net
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Derick
Segale

seegman@u.washington.edu
Undergraduate
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Gabe
Skoog
gskoog@u.washington.edu Tipsy but can still drive Middle Eastern Music, from Turkey to Morocco. The Rock and Roll Diaspora.  Cosmopolitan music.
discontinued until further notice.
 
Jason
Solam
jsolam@u.washington.edu M.A. student Latin America. Cuba. American popular music. Music education. Guitar, bass, whatever you got.  

Amanda
Soto

sotoa@u.washington.edu
M.A. student
West African music. Conjunto music from South Texas. Integrating ethnomusicology into the music education classroom.
Flute - woodwind/piano. West African Percussion Ensemble. Learning Persian Classical Music - ney and vocals.


Jabali
Stewart
ejs2@u.washington.edu Ph.D. student Music as it relates to ritualized combat. Trinidadian Orisha music's relationship to Trinidad. The 'Afropunk experience.' I'm a musical whore. Period.  

Gabe
Strand
gds@u.washington.edu Ph.D. student Indonesia.  The Mekong River.  NW Coast Cultures.  Rivers, ecological imagination and music.  Visual ethnomusicology.  Documentary.
Balinese gambuh and gender wayang.  Banjo, singin' and knee-slappin'.
 
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Suanda
esuanda@indo.net.id Currently in Indonesia ...
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Michiko
Urita

urita@u.washington.edu
Graduate student
Hindustani music as Hindu/Muslim collaboration and harmony.  Nirguna bhakti poetry.  South Asian languages (Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu).  Aromatherapy.  World peace.
Japanese chorus. Sitar. Capoeira.

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Tina Marie
Valdez
 
tvaldez@u.washington.edu
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Taryn
Webber
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Lou
Winant 
lwinant@u.washington.edu Ph.C.
Electronic music, esp. jungle/drum'n'bass.  DJ and radio culture. Subcultures and clubcultures.  Studio as instrument. History of American popular music. Texas-Mexican conjunto (M.A. thesis on the bajo sexto).  Chinese and Chinese-American music.  Globalization.  Music and identity.  Plucked strings: 12-string guitar, bajo sexto, pipa, bass. Native American cedar flute.  Hand drums.  Various gathered instruments in various combinations. Beats'n'samples.  Computer-made sounds, blends, and mixes (Reason, Traktor DJ Studio).
thecuriousman.com
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Zattera 
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