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Assistant Professor, Music, University of Richmond, VA amcgraw@richmond.edu. 804.2871.1807.

 
 
 

Curriculum Vitae.

A current academic CV.

Andrew Clay McGraw, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Music Department
University of Richmond, VA. 23173
amcgraw@richmond.edu 804-287-1807


Education

September 1999-May 2005
Ph.D. Wesleyan University, Department of Music

September 1996-May 1998
M.A. Tufts University, Department of Music

January 1995-May 1996
B.A. Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City

September 1992-December 1994
A.A. Simon’s Rock College of Bard University

Recent Employment History

August 2008-December 2008
Adjunct Faculty (Javanese Gamelan)William and Mary, Virginia

August 2006-present
Assistant Professor University of Richmond, Virginia

January 2006-May 2006
Adjunct Faculty Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts.

September 2005-present
Adjunct Faculty Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts.

October-March 2004
Visiting Lecturer Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang
Mai, Thailand.

January-May 2003
Visiting Lecturer Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City.

January-May 2002
Adjunct Faculty Simon’s Rock College of Bard University, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

List of Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles


Under Review "Balinese Musik Kontemporer: an Other Avant-Garde,"

Forthcoming "Review of Emma Baulch's 'Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk and
Death Metal in 1990s Bali" Asian Music.

In Press "Review of Timothy Taylor's 'Beyond Exoticism.' Asian Music.

In Press “Different Temporalities: The Time of Balinese Music.” Yearbook For Traditional Music.

2008 "The Perception and Cognition of Time in Balinese Music." Empirical Musicology Review. Vol. 3. No. 2.

2007 “The Pia’s Subtle Sustain: Ethnic Identity Politics in Northern Thailand and the Revitalization of the Lanna ‘Heart-Harp’” Asian Music Vol. 38, No. 2.

2007 Review: Gamelan Manuel, by Richard Pickvance, Gamelan, by Henry Spiller, Music in Bali, by Lisa Gold, Ethnomusicology Vol. 51, No. 1.

2003 “Review: Gong Kebyar by Michael Tenzer” College Music Symposium no. 42.

2000 “The Development of the Gamelan Semara Dana and the Expansion of
the Modal System in Bali, Indonesia,” Asian Music, Vol. 31 no. 1.

Media Articles

2006 Series of short articles on Asian musical traditions for National Geographic Online.

2005 “Composition Analysis: Trembat, An Experimental Balinese Work by Ida Bagus Widnyana.” In Balungan, July, 2005.

2005 “Kebaya, Kendang and Krating Deng: The Re-Emergence of Women’s Gamelan
and the Discourse of Ajeg Bali in Denpasar.” In Latitudes, December, 2004.

2004 “’Etnik’ Sebagai Diskors Dalam Musik Baru Indonesia.” (‘Ethnic’ as a Discourse in Indonesian New Music) in Gong: Media dan Seni, Indonesian Art and Media Magazine funded by the Ford Foundation.

2003 “The Balinese New Music Scene.” in The Open Space Magazine, Issue 5.
Book Contributions

2002 Several entries on Indonesian music and composers for Baker’s Dictionary of World Music and Musicians, Schirmer, ltd. press.

Paper Presentations (conferences, lectures)

2008 Hobos Stole My Gamelan! or, The Karmic Repercussions of Transgressing
Musical Etiquette in Bali, Indonesia. Society for Ethnomusicology Conference.

2007 (April 28th) Panel Discussion: Teaching World Music in the American Liberal Arts Curriculum.

2006 Musical Contexts in Archaic Southeast Asia. Society for Ethnomusicology Conference.

2006 (January 8th). Musical Interactions Along the Maritime Silk Road. Commissioned Lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as part of the Music of the Silk Road Exhibit.

2005 (November 17th 2005). Points and Waves and the Difference Between Emic and Etic Analyses of Balinese Music. 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia.

2005 Balinese Musik Kontemporer and Ethnomusicology as Cultural Critique.
Yale University, Music Department Colloquium.

2004 The Coup, the CIA, and STSI Solo: Reflections of the Cold War in Javanese Experimental Music of the 1970s. College of the Holy Cross International Gamelan Conference.

2003 Gending ‘Siam:’ Thai Influence and Cross-Cultural Composition in Colonial Java. Colloquium, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

2002 Discourses and Metaphors Surrounding Composition in
Indonesia. Cork University Faculty Colloquium, Cork, Ireland.

2001 Forces for Change in Balinese New Music. Wesleyan University
Gamelan Conference.

2000 Shooby Taylor and the World of Bad Music. Meeting of the Northeast
Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Recent Awards, Honors, Funding

March 2008 UR Cultural Affairs grant for residency of Ghanaian artist Zakariah Abdallah in
November, 2008.

March 2008 FRC Grant for Travel to London for ASEASUK Conference Presentation.

March 2008 Secured funding from OIE for semester-long residency for Balinese artist I Made
Sidia.

February 2008 UR Cultural Affairs grant for Gamelan Raga Kusuma performance for spring
LEAP dance series.

April 2007 UR Cultural Affairs grant for composition of original music with 8th Blackbird
Ensemble in collaboration with Gusti Sudarta.

April 2007 UR Faculty Summer Research grant for research in Indonesia, summer 07.

April 2007 UR P.E.T.E. Pedagogy grant for research on Ewe drumming in Ghana, Summer 2008.

March 2007 Secured funding from OIE for semester-long residency for Balinese artist Gusti
Putu Sudarta

March 2007 VFIC grant for composition in Bali, Indonesia 12/07.

March 2007 UR Faculty Seminar program to China/Tibet.

October 2006 UR Faculty Research Travel grant to Ethnomusicology conference in Hawaii.

February 2006 APPEX/State Department Fellowship for collaborative composition
with select artists from Asia and America.

July 2004 Grant from the New York-based Arts International Fund for collaborative composition, performance, and recording with four leading Indonesian and American composers.

May 2003 US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Grant for 12 months of study and research in Indonesia.

May 2002 Indonesian Government Darmasiswa Award. Full scholarship and stipend for 12 months study at ISI, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts.

Languages Studied


French, Indonesian, Balinese, Javanese, Thai, Sanskrit.

Courses Offered


Introduction to World Music, Gamelan Ensemble, Global Music Ensemble, Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, Critical Studies in Ethnomusicology, Music Theory I-II, Asian Music and Globalization, Music and Theater of Indonesia, CORE, Independent Study on West African Music.

 

 

 

 

 


Recent Work