Expertise

Research interests include ethnomusicology, American vernacular musics, and performance studies.

Affiliations

Director, Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University Bloomington
2007 - Present

Past Affiliations

Director, Archives of Traditional Music, Libraries, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Folklore Institute

Adjunct Professor, Ethnomusicology Institute

Communities
Literature, Music
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, Ethnomusicology and Folklore, 1997
MA, Indiana University Bloomington, Ethnomusicology and Folklore, 1993
BM, Ball State University, Music Theory and Composition, 1988
Keywords
north america regions of the united states folk or ethnic arts folklore and mythology history general humanities topics language or literature museums music music restoration and preservation anthropology linguistics or philology
Honors

Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences (Indiana University Bloomington), 1998

Associations
Society for Ethnomusicology, American Folklore Society, International Association for Sound and Audio Visual Archiving, International Associate for Sound and Audiovisual Archivists, Association for Recorded Sound Collections