Research Associates
Post-Doctoral
Martin Lussier
Interests: musiques émergentes; how 'filiation' processes create new kinds of coherence in musical and social arrangements; Lanaudière’s (area of the province of Québec) traditional and folk musics
Doctoral
Jennifer Bentley
Interests: wedding and special event music, marketing techniques, art music and class structure, politics of performance.
Kelly Best
Interests: Newfoundland button accordion; blackface mummering; Canadian hip-hop; globalization; festival; popular culture
Graham A. Blair
Interests: the nature of traditions; bluegrass and old time music; folk revivalism; recorded music, popular culture, and informal music-making
Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw
Interests: Intercultural exchange and boundary construction; power structures; diaspora communities; informal learning; Irish music.
Ian Hayes
Interests: Cape Breton fiddling; tourism,
Jazz, Bluegrass; diaspora
Marion
MacLeod
Interests: music and alcohol; "rebels" and historical memory; music
education; informal music making
Interests: Traditional Newfoundland instrumental music; Irish music; Celtic music; traditional Newfoundland dancing; fiddle traditions; tradition and globalization
Mary Piercey
Interests: Inuit expressive culture; traditional Indigenous knowledge; post-colonial theory; performance theory; and multicultural music education
Leila
Qashu
Interests: African, East African, Ethiopian, specifically Arsi
Oromo music and dance cultural traditions; gender studies and
music; women and conflict resolution through music
Masters
Patrick Brennan
Interests: Nationalism in the CanRock Renaissance; appropriation of non-Western musical styles in Western pop music
Alison CorbettInterests: network theory; music and technology; ethnography of music and social issues in urban environments
Carol
Diamond
Interests: Canadian First Nations expressive culture; post-colonial
theory; indegenous language revival and education
Interests: Construction of "authenticity"
through performance;
Performer-audience relationship; Repertoire management; Bluegrass;
Western
popular music
Amanda
Ironside
Interests: function of popular music as tradition; construction of
identity through music; regionalism; diaspora; tourism
Interests: Icelandic popular music;
Relationship of Place and Music; Media Representation; Tourism;
Geography and Music
Rachel
Landy
Interests: medical ethnomusicology: African grassroots movements
using
music as a strategy for health promotion; role of music in HIV/AIDS
education in rural communities
Interests: Diaspora Studies; Action Research;
Gender Studies; Multiculturalism; Hip Hop; Identity
(Re)Construction
Interests: Anti-racist pedagogy as applied to music education; music-making among Newfoundland Mi'kmaq; identity and alliance
Michelle Swab
Interests: Dynamics of musical interaction; ethnographic approaches to the study of Western Classical music; gender studies
Victor Tung
Interests: Taiwanese/Formosan Siraya aboriginal music; local music of the Chinese Christian Church in St. John's and Toronto; Chinese music in Formosa under Chiang, and music in China after the Communist Revolution of 1949.
