Aaron A. Fox. (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Texas 1995) Associate Professor of Music; Director, Center for Ethnomusicology; Popular music; working-class cultures; language and music; race, class, and indigeneity; ethnographic theory and method; history of social thought; linguistics.
Author of Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.
Email: aaf19@columbia.edu
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Website: http://www.aaronfox.com
Read: "Ain't it funny how time slips away: talk, trash, and technology in a Texas 'redneck' bar." (1997)

Lila Ellen Gray (Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University 2005) Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology (Fall 2005). Portugal, fado, urban cultural studies, gender, performance, place, singing style, Europe.
Email: leg2114@columbia.edu

Christopher Washburne. (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 1999). Assistant Professor of Music and Director, Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. . Jazz; Salsa; Latin American and Caribbean musics; music and identity; performance.
Email: cjw5@columbia.edu
Website: http://chriswashburne.com

Books by Columbia Ethno Faculty Members:

	Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. Edited by Christopher Washburne and Maiken Derno. (Routledge 2004) Order Bad Music through Amazon.com
	Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. by Aaron A. Fox (Duke 2004). Visit the Real Country website! Order Real Country through Amazon.com

Retired faculty:
Dieter Christensen. (Ph.D., Free University, Berlin 1957) Professor of Music; History of ethnomusicology; Balkans and West Asia: Turkey, Kurdistan, and Oman.
Email: dc22@ columbia . edu

Other Music Department Faculty (Selected)*

Susan Boynton. Medieval music; gender.
Brad Garton. Composer. Director, Computer Music Center. Music and technology.
Giuseppe Gerbino. Early Italian opera and madrigal; music and literature; sociology of music.
Fred Lerdahl. Composer/theorist. Music and language. Cognitive science.
George Lewis. Jazz musician/composer; Avant-garde musics. Music and technology.

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Selected Faculty in Other Columbia (or Barnard) Departments*

Lila Abu-Lughod. Gender and poetics; feminist theory; Middle East.
Myron Cohen. Social organization; family structure; nationalism; China.
Elaine Combs-Schilling. Gender; performance; opera; Morocco.
E. Valentine Daniel. Semiotics anthropology; culture and violence; India and Sri Lanka.
Steven Gregory. Urban anthropology; race and gender; United States and Caribbean.
Farah Griffin. African-American literature, music, and politics.
Robin Kelley. African-American culture, history, and music. (Announced)
Marilyn Ivy. Modernity; narrative; post-structuralism; Japan.
Brian Larkin. Media, technology, Islam, West Africa. (Barnard College)
Rosalind Morris. Theories of performance; visuality; Thailand.
Robert O'Meally. African-American literature and arts; Jazz and American culture.
Sherry Ortner. Gender; feminist theory; class; social theory; Nepal; United States.
John Pemberton. Performance; colonial history; Indonesia.
Sandhya Shukla. Asian-American immigration; race and ethnicity; United States and UK.
Michael Taussig. Violence and the State; Experimental ethnography. Performance. Latin America.

* These lists are selective, including faculty members who have worked closely with students in the Ethnomusicology graduate program in recent years. Columbia has many more faculty members in Music and other departments who might be of significant interest to individual students. Please visit the Columbia Directory or the Columbia University List of Schools and Departments to find out about other faculty members of interest. Bear in mind that students at Columbia also have access to courses and faculty members at the City University of New York and New York University.