The Black Church and Illegibility of Black Talent, with Dr. Fredara Hadley
Inspired by IU Alumna Dr. Fredara Mareva Hadley's (The Julliard School) feature in The Black Church documentary (PBS, 2021), ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Kennedi Johnson and current graduate student ...
22 Okt 202154min
A Story of DERT
The founders of the Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team (DERT), Dr. John McDowell, Dr. Sue Tuohy, and Dr. Rebecca Dirksen, discuss the origins of the group, remembering the collaboration that led ...
30 Apr 202142min
Women, the Academy, and Looking Ahead with Dr. Beverly Stoeltje
Dr. Beverly Stoeltje speaks about her path through graduate study in the 1970s and how her dissertation assisted her later research with Queen Mothers in Ghana. Sharing stories about her graduate stud...
16 Apr 202158min
Tales of Gender and German Hip Hop with Amy Makota
In asking, "Where did these three artists go?" Amy shows how a single question can turn into a field of research that has brought her to research gender and social activism in German hip hop. She reco...
2 Apr 202152min
Tales of Jordanian Music Festivals with Jeremy Reed
IU PhD Candidate Jeremy Reed shares his fieldwork experience researching how music festivals in Jordan act as a metaphor for trajectories in contemporary Jordanian history. His path to this research b...
26 Mar 202150min
Conferences, COVID-19, and Conversations with AFS & SEM
Dr. David McDonald speaks with the Executive Directors of the American Folklore Society and Society for Ethnomusicology, Dr. Jessica Turner and Dr. Stephen Stuempfle. Dr. Turner and Dr. Stuempfle prov...
26 Feb 202147min
Sounds of Bats and the Bat City with Dr. Julianne Graper
Dr. Julianne Graper speaks about her multispecies research and how she came to study the bats with musical scene of Austin, Texas. We discuss how she recorded bats for her field research, and how bat ...
12 Feb 202140min
Community Memories: Quince Años Traditions as Community History with Dr. Rachel González-Martin
Dr. González-Martin listens to the stories of mothers and daughters, of grandmothers and aunts, as narratives of community. She shares her thoughts and memories on the quinceañeras of diasporic Latinx...
5 Feb 202151min
