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Faculty & Staff > History/Theory/Ethnomusicology > Frederick Moehn


Frederick Moehn
Assistant Professor of Music
Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
Africana Studies
Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Howard Foundation fellow, 2008-9
Visiting scholar, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, 2008-9

E-mail: fmoehn@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Fred Moehn earned his B.A. degree from Berklee College of Music in music production and engineering. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in music with a specialization ethnomusicology at New York University, where he studied with Gage Averill, Donna Buchanan, and George Yúdice. His research interests include music cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially Brazil, Cuba and Ecuador, as well as jazz and other African-American music cultures. In his work he focuses on questions of race, gender, class, and national identity in relation to music technologies and production aesthetics, citizenship, civil society, social movements, and new media and intellectual property. Recent publications include “Music, Mixing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro” (Ethnomusicology Forum, 2008), “Music, Citizenship, and Violence in Postdictatorship Brazil” (Latin American Music Review, 2007), and "The Disc is not the Avenue: Schismogenetic Mimesis in Samba Recording" (in the edited volume Wired for Sound, 2005). He served as book review editor for the journal Ethnomusicology from 2004-2008. He has performed jazz, pop, and Brazilian music for over 20 years, and his main instruments are guitar and voice. Other interests include outreach and applied ethnomusicology.


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Curriculum Vitae

Education
New York University, NY, Ph.D. Music, 2001
Berklee College of Music, Boston, B.A. Music Production & Engineering, 1988

Teaching Experience
Recent Courses
      Graduate, Stony Brook:
      Jazz Historiography and Discourse (Mus 541, seminar)
      Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Cuba (Mus 536, seminar)
      Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Brazil (Mus 536, seminar)
      Music and Race (Mus 541, Cross-Cultural Studies in Music, seminar)
      Research Methods in Ethnomusicology (Mus 537, seminar)
      African Music (Mus 507, pro-seminar for MM and DMA grad students)

      Undergraduate, Stony Brook:
      The Popular Song in Latin America (Mus 450, music majors)
      Music in Latin America: Brazil (Mus 450, music majors)
      Music in Latin America (Mus 319, primarily non-majors, changing emphases each semester)
      Music Cultures of the World (Mus 105, mixed majors and non-majors, with changing emphases)
      The Arts in Society (Hon 201, Honors College, mixed majors and non-majors)
      Music and Race (Mus 450, music majors)

Selected Recent Awards
Howard Foundation Fellowship (affiliated with Brown University), 2008-9

Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and the lettered Social Sciences (FAHSS) Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund, Individual Development Grant, June 2008

Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and the lettered Social Sciences (FAHSS) Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund, Individual Development Grant, 2007

Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and the lettered Social Sciences (FAHSS) Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund, Individual Development Grant, 2006


Selected Publications
Book
Music and Globalization in Postdictatorship Brazil. Duke University Press. Under contract and in progress.

Journal Articles
“Music, Mixing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro,” Ethnomusicology Forum 17(2): 165-202, 2008.

“Music, Citizenship, and Violence in Postdictatorship Brazil,” Latin American Music Review 28(2): 180-219, 2007.

“In the Tropical Studio: MPB Production in Transition,” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 19: 57-66, 2000

Book Chapters
“The Disc is not the Avenue: Schismogenetic Mimesis in Samba Recording.” In Greene and Porcello, eds. Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures, pp. 47-83. Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

“‘Good Blood in the Veins of this Brazilian Rio,’ or a Cannibalist Transnationalism.” In Dunn and Perrone, eds. Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization, pp. 258-269. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001

Recent Reviews
Book review: Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil, by B. McCann (Duke 2004). In Latin American Music Review 28(2): 309-15, 2007.

Review essay: “Colonial Era Brazilian Music: A Review Essay of Recent Recordings,” Notes, vol. 62(2), Dec. 2005, pp. 448-472.

Review essay: Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, ed. by F. R. Aparicio and C. F. Jáquez (Palgrave 2003); From Tejano to Tango: Essays on Latin American Popular Music, ed. by W. A. Clark (Garland 2002); and Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music, ed. by L. Waxer (Routledge 2002). In Ethnomusicology, 49(1): 137-142, 2005.

Entries in Reference Work
Three encyclopedia entries: “Samba”; “Samba Schools”; “Folk Traditions of Brazil.” In Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, Greenwood Press, 2005.


Recent Conference Papers
“Listening to Gilberto Gil,” Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) annual conference, Columbus, OH, Oct 2007

“Interpretive Issues in Latin American Colonial Choral Music,” International Symposium – Latin American Choral Music: Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy, Tucson, Jan. 2007

“Ser brasilianista musical: reflexoes e desafios,” Brazilian Association for Ethnomusicology, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2006

“The Baroque Sociability of Urban Cannibals in Brazil, “Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) biennial conference, Nashville, Oct. 2006

“The Virginia Woolf of Samba,“ Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds conference, Newcastle, UK, July 2006

“Music, Violence, and Civil Society in Brazil,” Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) annual conference, Tucson, Nov 2004


Selected Academic Service
Book Review Editor, Ethnomusicology, peer-reviewed journal, fall 2004-2008

Media Awards Selection Committee, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2008

Grant screener, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2005

University Senate: Graduate Council, Stony Brook, 2003-2005

Humanities Institute: Advisory Board, Stony Brook, 2003-2007


Professional Associations
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM); American Musicological Society (AMS); British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE); Latin American Studies Association (LASA); Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)


Selected Other Memberships
Schomburg Society for Research in Black Culture (NY); Center for Black Music Research (Chicago); El Museo del Barrio (NY); Studio Museum in Harlem (NY); Dance Theater of Harlem (NY): Electronic Music Foundation (Founding member, NY)