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Ethnomusicologist, folklorist and musician Jeff Todd Titon is the author or editor of seven books, including Early Downhome Blues, Worlds of Music and American Musical Traditions. His areas of specialty include religious folk music, blues, and old-time fiddling. In the 1980s he took up the fiddle and banjo, and most of his music-making today involves old-time string band music from the upper South. He is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and from 1990 to 1995 he was editor of Ethnomusicology,, the Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. His current projects include ongoing fieldwork with Old Regular Baptists in eastern Kentucky, with whom he has produced two CDs for Smithsonian Folkways (1997 and 2003 and a DVD on the life and preaching of the Rev. C. L. Franklin, father of the singer Aretha Franklin. Since 1986 he has been professor of music (ethnomusicology) at Brown. In 2008 he started the blog Sustainable Music (http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com) in which he writes music and sustainability |
Barry Truax is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic composition, specializing in soundscape composition. As a composer, Truax has helped to shape our notion of soundscape composition. He is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system, which he has used for tape solo works and those which combine tape with live performers or computer graphics. Some of these pieces may be heard on the recording Sequence of Earlier Heaven, and the Compact Discs Digital Soundscapes, Pacific Rim, Song of Songs, Inside, Islands, and Twin Souls, as well as the double CD of the opera Powers of Two and the latest CD, Spirit Journies. He has worked with the World Soundscape Project, editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published a book Acoustic Communication dealing with all aspects of sound and technology. Truax is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and a founding member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. |
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Jan Kagarice is an accomplished trombonist and educator, who through her own struggle with neuromuscular disease has developed a unique ability to help players who are experiencing performance difficulties. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Trombone and Chamber Music at the University of North Texas where she maintains a full studio. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold, Germany. Kagarice was a founding member and bass trombonist of the internationally acclaimed PRISMA trombone quartet and has performed with the Dallas Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony and the Boston Philharmonic. She an artist/clinician for the Conn-Selmer Instrument Company, and serves as the chair of the International Trombone Association’s Committee on Focal Task Specific Dystonia. |
Dr. Turner is Academic Director for the Program for Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College where he teaches courses in cultural anthropology. Formerly Program Director for Folk and Traditional Arts and Program Initiative Specialist at the Maryland State Arts Council, he co-founded and directed the Maryland Traditions program from 2000-2007. Maryland Traditions developed a robust infrastructure for the study and support of traditional arts and culture in Maryland including grant programs, research, and partnerships resulting in the creation of cultural sustainability focused programs at Universities, arts councils and museums throughout the state, and award winning products such as the Bridge to Boardwalk audio journey of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He is former president of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association. Publications include articles, reviews and creative writing in such journals as Folklore Forum, Anthropology and Humanism, and TDR (The Drama Review). |
