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Profile
Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
Christi-Anne Castro received her Master's and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles with a dissertation on music, nationalism, and cultural politics in the Philippines. She joined the Department of Musicology faculty in January 2005. Since then she has taught classes introducing School of Music, Theatre & Dance students and non-music majors to "world music." She also teaches classes on the music of Latin America and the Caribbean, the music of Asia, and graduate seminars in the field of ethnomusicology.
Publications
“Voices in the Minority: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Asian
American in Popular Music." 2007.
Journal of Popular Music Studies 19(3)
“Music and Politics in the Philippines." 2003. Journal of Chinese Folklore, Ritual, and Theater
“Nostalgia in a Denuded Rainforest.” 2003. Recording Review. Asian Music
“Dularawan: Composing the Philippine Nation.” 2003. Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
“Musical Mestizaje in the Pearl of the Orient.” 2003. Selected Reports of Ethnomusicology, Volume 11, Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects Past and Present
“Decolonization, Music, and the Essential Filipino.” 2002. Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies. #35
Papers and Presentations
“The Field of Ethnomusicology and Music Research in the Philippines”
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2006
Panel Chair and Discussant, "Traditions of Change: Music and the Filipino Narrative in the Homeland and Beyond"
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Honolulu, HI, 2006
"The Nostalgic Cosmopolitan: Staging Filipino at Home and Abroad"
Center for World Performance Studies, University of Michigan, 2006
"Universal Sound and Embodied Difference: Asian Americans Making Pop Music"
Music of the Americas Study Group, University of Michigan, 2006
"Finding Filipino: Musical Strategies in Locating Identity"
Michigan State University, 2006
Panel, Organizer, “Evolution and Redefintion: Rethinking the Asian American Woman in Popular Music”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Atlanta, GA, 2005
“The Chinkees’ Noise: Punk and the Promise of a Better Tomorrow”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Tucson, AZ, 2004
“Music, Dance, and the Reincarnation of Maria Clara: Folkloric Revisions on a Spanish Colonial Past in the Philippines”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Miami, FL, 2003
“Filipino Folk Music for the Urban Tribe”
American Anthropological Association National Conference
New Orleans, LA, 2002
“Go Tell It Off the Mountain: The Promulgation of the Mystical in Popular Folk Music of the Philippines”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Estes Park, CO, 2002
“Reconciling with a Bastard Child: Filipino American Music Making as a Living Tradition”
Filipino American National Historical Society Conference
Los Angeles, CA, 2002
Panel Chair, “Musical Gateways and Transnational Identities”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Detroit, MI, 2001
“Musical Gateways and Transnational Identities”
Colloquia of the College of Music
University of the Philippines, 2001
“Musical Politics the Filipino Way”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Toronto, Canada, 2000
“Decolonization, Music, and the Essential Filipino”
Society for Ethnomusicology National Meeting
Bloomington, IN, 1998
Grants and Awards
2007 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement for Junior Faculty, Honorable Mention
2007 Arts@Michigan Course Connections Funding
2006 Rackham Research Fellowship
2005 Center for Research, Learning, and Teaching Grant
2003 California Arts Council Grant
Teaching at the University of Michigan
Musicology 122: Introduction to World Music
Musicology 139: Introduction to Music (for School of Music, Theatre & Dance Students)
Musicology 464/565: Music of Latin America and the Caribbean
Musicology 467/567: Music of Asia II
Musicology 547: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Musicology 730: Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology
Dissertation Committees
2007
Michal Rahfaldt, " Music-Based Radio and Youth Education in South Africa"
2008
Jesse Johnston,
"The Cimbalom (Cimbál) in Moravia: Cultural Organology and Interpretive Communities"
Contact Information
Professor Christi-Anne Castro
University of Michigan
804 Burton Memorial Tower
Ann Arbor, MI. 48109–1270
Office Telephone: (734) 615-4216
ccastro@umich.edu
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