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Tim Cooley

Associate Professor
East European folk music, pop
Music Building #1101
805-893-4596

Ethnomusicology Program

Curriculum Vitae
cooley@music.ucsb.edu

Eastern European folk music; American popular, vern- acular and folk music; theories of ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, and tourism; fieldwork practice and epistemologies.

Publications include:

Books:

  • Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists,
    Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians.
    2005,
    Indiana University Press.
    -Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006 Orbis Prize for Polish Studies
  • Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for
    Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
    . 1997. Editor with
    Gregory F. Barz. Oxford University Press.
    -Second revised edition, in press, Oxford University Press, 2008

Articles:

  • “Virtual Fieldwork.” Coauthored with Katherine Meizel, & Nasir Syed. 2008. In Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. Revised 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.
  • “The Musics in Europe/The Polish Tatras.” 2008. World of Music. Edited by Jeff Todd Titon. Schirmer.
  • "Theorizing Fieldwork Impact: Malinowski,
    Peasant-Love, and Friendship." 2003. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 12(1):1-17
  • "Repulsion to Ritual: Interpreting Folk Festivals in the Polish Tatras." 2001. Ethnologies 23(1):233-53.
  • "United States of America: European-American music: Polish." 2001. With Janice Kleeman. In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition.
  • "Constructing a Folk Music in the Polish Tatras." 2000. In After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music. (Polish Music History Series, Vol. 6).
  • "Folk Festival as Modern Ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains." 1999. the world of music 41(3):31-55.
  • "Authentic Troupes and Inauthentic Tropes." 1998. Polish Music Journal. Online. 1(1).
    www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issues.html