Musicology and Ethnomusicology
The musicology program at the University of Minnesota reflects the diverse interests and methodological approaches of the faculty, including historical criticism and analysis, archival research, editing, source studies, performance issues, and gender studies. The major historical periods are well represented with particular strengths in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, late eighteenth century, late nineteenth, and early twentieth century. Overall, the faculty is unified by its interdisciplinary approach to the study of music in cultural and social contexts.
The musicology division supports all levels of study and degree programs offered at the School of Music. The bachelor of arts with academic emphasis allows students the opportunity to discover and delve into research areas not commonly available at the undergraduate level. The master's degree is tailored to a student's interests and career goals. The doctoral degree is oriented toward preparing students for scholarly research and teaching, aiming for breadth and depth in one specialized area.
Degrees
In addition to supporting all degree programs at the School of Music, our musicology program offers degrees in the following areas:
Musicology & Ethnomusicology Faculty
Gabriela Currie
Specialties
Global perspectives: historical ethnomusicology (pre- and early-modern); Eurasian music iconography and archaeology; Early ethnographic accounts of musical traditions in Eurasia and Africa; Intersections between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras; Music and culture of the Balkan Penninsula, Western and Central Asia
Scott Currie
Specialties
Ethnomusicology, Carribean Music, Jazz, Reggae, Improvisation in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Specialties
Felix Mendelssohn; History of popular American music and culture; 19th century Romantic German music; Music history 1750 - 1900; American hymnology
Karen Painter
Specialties
music and politics; music criticism; Jewish studies; social history; German and Austrian history; implicit bias and racism; Chinese music
Patrick R. Warfield
Specialties
American Music, military music, African American Music
Faculty in Other Departments
Elliott Powell
Specialties
American popular music and culture; Comparative and relational race studies; Feminist and queer studies; Afro-Asian studies; Black cultural studies; Afro-diasporic popular music; Inter-/cross-cultural music making; Sound studies
Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Specialties
Poetics and politics of speech and song; Ethnographic history; Music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia; Cultural production in India (caste, gender and oral traditions); Colonialism, culture, and colonial knowledge; Colonial ethnography in nineteenth century India; American vernacular music; Landscape, history, memory
Michael Gallope
Specialties
Music and Sound Studies; Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory; Cultural and Intellectual History; Political Economy; Academic Freedom
Arun Saldanha
Specialties
Music; Continental philosophy; Travel; Race; Feminist theory; Colonialism; Marxism
Ananya Chatterjea
Specialties
Aesthetics; Movement; Women's Studies; Choreography and Performance; Performance in Global Contexts; Politics of Cultural Production; Theorizing Dancing Bodies; Choreography and Social Justice; Contemporary Dance of Asia and Africa
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
Specialties
Study of Archive, Empire and Aesthetics; Post Colonial Theories and Literature (s); Study of Culture; Performing Arts, Dance in Global Politics & Culture; Politics of Human Rights and Creative Arts; Study of the body, emodiment, memory; Study of transnational Politics, Alliances (Bandung Movement and Global South); Creative Projects in Post-Conflict/War Zones (Asia); Southeast Asia; Sound Studies and Urban Studies; Plantation, Land and Forest