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Leslie C. Gay Jr
 

Leslie C. Gay Jr. is Associate Professor. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University.

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  lesgay@utk.edu   865-974-7525 2426 Dunford
 
 

Leslie C. Gay Jr., Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. He has published articles and reviews on American music and culture in the journals Ethnomusicology, American Music, and World of Music. His research also appears in Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 2005, edited by Jennifer C. Post). With his collaborator, René Lysloff, he conceptualized, co-edited, and contributed to Music and Technoculture (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), which examines emerging and dynamic relationships among music, culture, and technology. 

Dr. Gay has published research on indie rock musicians in New York City and music publishing in the 19th-century United States. Currently, he is completing a book on the reception of African American music in Denmark, with the working title Rhythmic nation: African American music and Danish identity. He began this continuing historical and ethnographic research with a Fulbright Scholar grant in 2002, at which time he also served on the faculty of Aarhus University (Århus, Denmark).

Leslie Gay is a member of the editorial board of the journal Jazz Perspectives. He remains active within the Society for Ethnomusicology where he served on the Program Committee for 55th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (2010) and on the Waterman Prize Committee for the Popular Music Section (2008-2010). He currently serves on the SEM Audio/Visual Publications Committee and the Advisory Council of the Southeast and Caribbean Chapter of the Society.

WEB: http://web.utk.edu/~musicol/          http://web.utk.edu/~lesgay

Rachel Golden Carlson
 

Rachel Golden is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Musicology. Dr. Golden holds the B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University, the M.F.A in musicology from Brandeis University, and the Ph.D. in musicology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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  rcarlson@utk.edu   865-974-8054 2429 Dunford
 
 

Rachel Golden is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Tennessee. She earned a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research focuses on medieval music of the twelfth century, including aspects of monastic devotion, songs of the Crusades, words-music relationships, and the cult of the Virgin Mary. She is the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2006-07 for her project, "Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song," which addresses the Crusade songs of Occitania as works that embody aspects of regional identity, dynamic notions of distance and travel, and contemporaneous attitudes toward Jerusalem. She is the author of articles on both medieval and twentieth-century topics, including her study "Striking Ornaments: Complexities of Sense and Song in Aquitanian Versus" (Music & Letters 84, November 2003), for which she was awarded the 2003 Westrup Prize by the Music & Letters Editorial Board. Historical Musicology, Marco (Medieval/Renaissance) Institute.

WEB: http://web.utk.edu/~musicol/

Sean McCollough
 

Sean McCollough is Lecturer of Musicology. He holds an M.M. in Musicology (with a thesis in ethnomusicology: "Music and Cultural Identity Among Adolescents in Rural Appalachia: A Participatory Research Project") and a B.A. in College Scholars (with a concentration in "philosophy and contemporary culture") from the University of Tennessee.

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  sean@utk.edu   865-974-7556 2338 Dunford
 
 

His general area of specialty is American music with an emphasis in the music of Appalachia. As part of his graduate studies, he participated in the East Tennessee State University bluegrass program. He plays guitar, claw-hammer banjo and, mandolin. He performs regularly with the LoneTones and plays music in schools and other venues for children. He has five CDs to his credit including the LoneTones’ most recent album which he recorded in his home studio. He also dabbles in music promotion. He worked as the concert manager at the Laurel Theater in Knoxville, TN for two years and continues to help organize music festivals in the Knoxville area. Historical Musicology, Ethnomusicology.

WEB: http://web.utk.edu/~musicol/          http://www.thelonetones.com

Allison Robbins
 

Allison Robbins is Lecturer of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Tennessee. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Foundation Graduate Fellow.
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  arobbin9@utk.edu   865-974-9970 2317 Dunford
 
 

Her research focuses on Broadway and Hollywood musicals, American popular music and dance traditions, and musical multimedia. She has presented her work at the annual meetings of the Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Currently, she is adapting selections of her dissertation, "Let's Face the Music and Dance: Hollywood Musicals and the Mediatization of Broadway, 1933-1939," for publication.

WEB: http://web.utk.edu/~musicol/        http://www.allisonrobbins.com