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2008 Graduates

Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. graduates!

Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir (Historical Musicoloty), "Musique dansante and the Art of Ballet"

Joys Cheung (Ethnomusicology), "Chinese Music and Translated Modernity in Shanghai, 1918-1937."

Jesse Johnston (Ethnomusicology),  "The Cimbalom (Cimbál) in Moravia: Cultural Organology and Interpretive
Communities"

2008-2009 Fulbright Scholars

Amy Kimura and Alex Cannon have received Fulbright grants for this coming academic year.

Amy's research will be on radio in Indonesia. Rather than being used primarily as a political instrument, radio in the Netherlands East Indies played a significant role as both signifier and determiner of musical culture and practice. Through archival and ethnographic research in the Netherlands and Indonesia, and drawing on methods from media and radio studies, history, and ethnomusicology, this project considers issues of broadcasting structures, programming policies, and listening practices in late-colonial Indonesia. Examining how radio mediation changed listeners, broadcasters, and structures of music and performance, this research will create a more complete picture of radio's impact on musical culture during this pivotal time in Indonesian history, as the Dutch empire's power declined and as Indonesian national consciousness began to flourish.

Alex will be studying the nature of "traditional music" in Vietnam.

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