What follows below is a 1995 version of his vita.

d.o.b. August 20, 1949; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Education

• Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University, Department of Anthropology
• B.A. 1971 Hofstra University cum laude, highest honors in anthropology

Fellowships/Awards

• Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1971-1975. Cross-Cultural Fellowship, 1974
• Indiana University (in Paris, France) Research Fellow, 1975-1978
• Anthropology Film Center Travel award, 1981
• American Council of Learned Societies (Poland) Travel/lecture award, 1988
• Music Board of The Australia Council (Australia) NEH Resident Fellowship, 1989-90
• School of American Research J.I. Staley Prize, 1991
• School of American Research, for Sound and Sentiment John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1991-1996
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Indiana University, 1992
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994
• Chicago Folklore Prize, 1995, for Music Grooves

Memberships

• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• American Folklore Society
• Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
• African Music Society
• International Council for Traditional Music
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• Society for Linguistic Anthropology
• Society for Cultural Anthropology

Teaching and Employment

• 1996 Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1992-95 Professor of Anthropology and Music, The University of Texas at Austin
• 1992 Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney
• 1987-95 Director, Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, The University of Texas at Austin
• 1985-91 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music, The University of Texas at Austin
• 1980-85 Assistant Professor of Communications, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania
• 1983-85 Visiting Lecturer, Center for Studies in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Columbia University

Research projects

• 1974 Central African Pygmy Musics Departement d'ethnomusicologie, Musee de l'Homme
• 1974 The History of African Cinema Comite du Film Ethnographique, Musee de l'Homme
• 1974-76 Cinematographer and Film Consultant Multiple Analysis Project, Committee on Sociolinguistics, Social Science Research Council
• 1976-77, 1982, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1994

Field research

Ethnography, linguistics, ethnomusicology in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. Funded by Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Archives of Traditional Music, Anthropology Film Center, National Endowment for the Arts, National Public Radio, University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Philosophical Society, Center for Psychosocial Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, University Research Institute of The University of Texas, 360* Productions, Rykodisc, and the J.D. & C.T. MacArthur Foundation.

Editorial work and other academic positions

• 1976-80 Film Review Editor, Ethnomusicology
• 1980-84 Film Notes Column, Ethnomusicology Newsletter
• 1974-80 Editorial Board, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication
• 1980-86 Editorial Board, Studies in Visual Communication
• 1982-84 Editorial Board, Yearbook for Traditional Music
• 1983-89 Section Editor for Music and Sound International Encyclopedia of Communications, Oxford University Press
• 1982- Advisory Board, Human Studies Film Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
• 1983-85 First Vice-President, Society for Ethnomusicology
• 1985-89 Chair, Current Issues Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology
• 1975-87 three terms as Council member, Society for Ethnomusicology
• 1989-94 Associate Editor, American Ethnologist
• 1989- Editorial Collective, Public Culture
• 1990- Associate Editor, Yearbook for Traditional Music
• 1991- Editorial Advisory Board, Lead Belly Letter
• 1993- Editorial Board, Perfect Beat
• 1994- Advisory Council, Rhythm For Life

Reader and Reviewer

Indiana University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Illinois Press, Stanford University Press, Penn State University Press; University of Texas Press, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Arizona Press, School of American Research Press, University of New Mexico Press, National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; numerous journals including Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Journal of American Folklore, Man, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, Perfect Beat; various private and public foundations. External dissertation examiner: Dept. of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (Canada); Department of Music, Monash University (Australia); Dept. of Anthropology, Australian National University (Australia).

Presentations at Professional Meetings

Society for Ethnomusicology, Conference on Culture and Communication, American Anthropological Association, Conference on Visual Anthropology, Kroeber Anthropological Society, African Studies Association, Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics and Languages, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia Anthropological Society, International Council for Traditional Music, American Ethnological Society, International Musicological Society, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Invited Lectures

Southern Illinois University, Temple University, Columbia University, Princeton University, National Arts School, Papua New Guinea, Goroka Teachers College, University of Papua New Guinea, University of Hawaii, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY, Buffalo, Teachers College-Columbia University, Trent University, Yale University, Bryn Mawr College, Ochanomizu University, The University of Texas at Austin, Brown University, University of Illinois, Tufts University, University of Washington, Rice University, American University, New York University, University of Montana, Carleton University, The Heard Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , University of New South Wales, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Monash University, Pitzer College, School of American Research, UCLA, University of Michigan, Cornell University, University of New Mexico, National Arts School of Papua New Guinea, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Kentucky, Barnard College, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Pomona College, University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, Fort Lewis College, Webber State University, Vassar College, University of Sydney, Macquarie University, LaTrobe University, University of Adelaide, New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Rutgers University, The Julliard School of the Arts, The Library of Congress, St. Olafs College, College of the Fingerlakes, The University of Oslo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Valparaiso University, Carroll College, Albion College, The Institute for the Humanities at Salado, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Arkansas State University , University of New Orleans, Loyola University

Publications

Books

• 1972 Filmography of the African Humanities. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University African Studies Program
• 1982 Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2nd edition, expanded, l990 Japanese edition, Heibon-sha, l988
• 1994 Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues. (with Charles Keil) Chicago: University of Chicago Press ip. Senses of Place. (editor, with Keith Basso) Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. ip.
• Bosavi-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary. (compiler, with Bambi B. Schieffelin, Ayasilo Heina, Hoido Degelo, Deina Hewabe, Kulu Fuale, Honowo Degeli) Boroko, Papua New Guinea: National Research Institute.

Articles

• 1974 Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology 18(2): 197-217; Avant-Propos: Jean Rouch Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 1(1): 35-36
• 1975 Toward a Researchable Film Language. (with Carroll Williams) Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 2(1): 25-32
• 1976 Ethnomusicology and Visual Communication. Ethnomusicology 20(2): 293-325; Generating Researchable Film Observations (with Carroll Williams) Working Papers in Culture and Communication 1(2): 62-75
• 1977 Ethno-ornithology of the Mt. Bosavi region. New Guinea Bird Society Newsletter 132: 9-10
• 1978 Jazz in the Global Perspective. New Mexico Jazz Workshop Newsletter 1(2): 4-5;

To make men cry: the poetry of heyalo Gigibori 4(1): 14-17

• 1981 'Flow like a waterfall': The metaphors of Kaluli musical theory. Yearbook for Traditional Music 13: 22-47
• 1982 Hard words: a functional basis for Kaluli discourse. (with Bambi B. Schieffelin) In D. Tannen, (ed.). Analyzing discourse: text and talk. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, pp. 351-371.
• 1983 Sound as a symbolic system: the Kaluli drum. Bikmaus 4(3):78-89 A view from the USA. Yearbook for Traditional Music 15: 209-211
• 1984 Sound structure as social structure. Ethnomusicology 28(3): 383-409 ; Communication, music, and speech about music. Yearbook for Traditional Music 16: 1-18
• 1985 Editor's Introduction: Chronicle of a Summer. Studies in Visual Communication 11(1):2-3
• 1986 Sound as a symbolic system: the Kaluli drum, In C. Frisbie, ed. Explorations in Ethnomusicology: Essays in honor of David P. McAllester. Detroit Monographs in Musicology, 9. Detroit: Information Coordinators, Pp. 147-58; Orality and consciousness, in Yoshihiko Tokumaru and Osamu Yamaguti, eds. The oral and literate in music. Tokyo: Academia Music, pp. 18-28; Comment: Ethnomusicologists vis-a-vis the fallacies of everyday life, by S. Blum Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 3:36-38
• 1987 Dialogic editing: interpreting how Kaluli read Sound and Sentiment. Cultural Anthropology 2(2):190-210; Taki no gotoki nagare (Japanese translation of "Flow like a waterfall", l981), in Yoshio Tozawa and Susumu Shono, eds., Ongaku-bigaku (Musical aesthetics). Tokyo: Keiso-shobo, pp. 183-228 interpretation : experience :: image : ethnography. Echology 1:59-61 trio arrangement of Thelonious S. Monk, Ruby, My Dear. Echology 1:13-17
• 1988 Aesthetics as iconicity of style , or, 'lift-up-over-sounding': getting into the Kaluli groove. Yearbook for Traditional Music 20:74-113 and cassette supplement; On not writing about Aretha. Echology 2: 89-92; Comment on "Cultural Studies." Buckethead 2:18; Notes on World Beat. Public Culture 1(1):31-37
• 1989 Music theory: Tuning systems. International Enclyclopedia of Communications. NY: Oxford University Press 3:139-142; Sound. International Enclyclopedia of Communications. NY: Oxford University Press 4:101-107; Themes in the cinema of Jean Rouch. Visual Anthropology 2:223-247; Themes in the Cinema of Jean Rouch, in The Cinema of Jean Rouch. Jay Ruby, ed. New York: Harwood Academic. (reprint of above); Where the Music of Nature is the Nature of Music. Polyphone 5:105-117 (in Japanese)
• 1990 Aesthetics and Synesthesia in Kaluli Ceremonial Dance. Journal of Dance Ethnology 14:1-16; A Poetics of Tears. American Writing 1:55-63; Poetiques et politiques du style Kaluli. Revue de Musique des Universites Canadiennes 10 (2):103-136; Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology (reprinted from 1974), in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, ed., Ethnomusicological Theory and Method (The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology, Volume 2). New York: Garland Publishing; Ethnomusicology and Visual Communication (reprinted from 1976), in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, ed., History, Definitions and Scope of Ethnomusicology (The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology, Volume 1). New York: Garland Publishing; Sound Structure as Social Structure (reprinted from 1984), in Kay Kaufman Shelemay, ed., Music as Culture. (The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology, Volume 3). New York: Garland Publishing; Wept thoughts: the voicing of Kaluli memories. Oral Tradition 5 (2-3):241-266
• 1991 War Journal Notes. Public Culture 3(2):149-153; The Story of the Hornbill, Cockatoo and Kingfisher. Echology 4: 2-8; Voices of the Rainforest. Public Culture 4(1):131-140; Sound as a symbolic system: the Kaluli drum (revised) in David Howes, ed.; The Varieties of Sensory Experience: a Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 79-99; Cockatoo, Hornbill, Kingfisher, in Andrew Pawley, ed. Man and a half: essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer. Auckland: The Polynesian Society, pp. 207-213; Sociolinguistic dimensions of Kaluli relationship terms (with Bambi B. Schieffelin), in Andrew Pawley, ed. Man and a half: essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer. Auckland: The Polynesian Society, pp. 451-454.
• 1992 From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis. Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, Number 53; Voices of the Rainforest, "Imperialist Nostalgia" and the Politics of Music. Arena 99/100:164-177
• 1993 The Politics of Amplification: Notes on 'Endangered Music' and Musical Equity; Folklife Center News (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) 15(1):12-15.
• 1994 The Multiple Analysis Project: Background, History, Problems, Data (with Allen Grimshaw and David Jenness), in Allen Grimshaw et. al., What's Going On Here? Complementary Studies of Professional Talk (Multiple Analysis Project, Vol. 2). Advances in Discourse Processes, volume 43. Norwood: Ablex, pp. 3-57; From Ethnomusicology to Echo-muse-ecology: Reading R. Murray Schafer in the Papua New Guinea Rainforest. The Soundscape Newsletter/World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Number 8, (June), pp. 4-6; Language and Music (with Aaron Fox). Annual Review of Anthropology 23:25-53. Gone Reflections. American Writing 9:37-41.
• 1995 From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis: The Discourses and Practices of World Music and World Beat, in George Marcus and Fred Myers, eds., The Traffice in Culture. Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 96-126; Struttura sonora come struttura sociale, in Tullia Magrini, ed., Uomini e Suoni: Prospettive Antropologiche nella Ricerca Musicale. Bologna: CLUEB, pp. 145-181; Wept Thoughts: the Voicing of Kaluli Memories, in Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell, eds., South Pacific Oral Traditions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 1996 Poetics of Place: Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution in a Papua New Guinea Rainforest Community, in Roy F. Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui, eds., Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture, and Domestication. London: Berg, pp. 61-87; Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style, in Kathleen M. Higgins, ed., Aesthetics in Perspective. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, pp. 714-718; From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis: The Discourses and Practices of World Music and World Beat, in Simon During, The Global Culture Reader, London: Routledge

Translations

• 1974 Le camera et les hommes, by Jean Rouch as The camera and man. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 1(1): 37-44
• 1975 La situation et tendances du cinema en Afrique by Jean Rouch, a/b as The situation and tendencies of the cinema in Africa. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication Part I 2(1): 51-58 Part II 2(2): 112-121
• 1978 (with Shari Robertson): Essai sur les avatar de la personne du possede, du magicien, du sorcier, du cineaste et de l'ethnographe, by Jean Rouch as On the vicissitudes of the self: the possessed dancer, the magician, the sorcerer, the filmmaker and the ethnographer. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 5(1): 2-8
• 1980 (with Shari Robertson): Le percu et le nomme, by Christian Metz, as The perceived and the named. Studies in Visual Communication 6(3): 56-69
• 1985 Chronique d'un ete by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, as Chronicle of a Summer Editor, and (with Anny Ewing) translator Studies in Visual Communication 11(1): 2-78
• 1989 (with Anny Ewing) Entretein de Jean Rouch avec le Professeur Enrico Fulchignoni, as Conversation between Jean Rouch and Enrico Fulchignoni. Visual Anthropology 2:265-300 (reprinted in The Cinema of Jean Rouch. Jay Ruby, ed. New York: Harwood Academic.)

Discs, Audio, and selected Radio Productions

• 1982a Music of the Kaluli. 12" stereo disc with notes, photos, map. Boroko: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. IPNGS 001
• 1982b Music of the Kaluli. 30 minute program. Papua New Guinea NBC.
• 1983 Voices in the Forest (with Scott Sinkler) 30 minute program National Public Radio (funded by Satellite Program Development Fund) broadcast in 1984 on more than 100 radio stations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific; re-broadcast regularly since first airing on NPR and Pacifica networks republished 1987, Wafe Sambo! 001, stereo cassette, with notes republished 1988, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 20, part 2
• 1985 Kaluli Weeping and Song 12" stereo disc with notes in English and German, photos, map, transcriptions. Musicaphon/Music of Oceania series Kasel: Baerenreiter BM 30SL 2702
• 1987 Voices in the Fores: the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea, 60 minute program. Asian Communique, KUT-FM, Austin Texas (several re-broadcasts since original airing)
• 1988 Sounds on the Pacific Rim: the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea, 60 minute program. KUFM for National Public Radio; Series Producer: Megan McNamer (re-edited for satellite transmission and national NPR re-broadcast 1991 as "Lift-Up-Over Sounding")
• 1990 Voices from the Rainforest. Five short programs for Pulse of the Planet; Series Producer: Jim Metzner. Broadcast on over 150 NPR and commercial stations.
• 1991 Voices of the Rainforest: Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. CD/cassette with booklet of notes and photographs. The World. Series producer: Mickey Hart. Rykodisc RCD/RAC 10173
• 1993 Voices of the Rainforest; recordings and interview. 60 minute program, The Listening Room, ABC Australia. Producer: Andrew McLennan.
• 1994 Kaluli Song, in Jim Metzner, Pulse of the Planet: Extraordinary Sounds from the Natural World. Berkeley: The Nature Company. CD (track 3) & text (pp. 27-8).

Reviews of books

• 1975 How Musical is Man?, by John Blacking Folklore Forum 8(4): 157-163
• 1979 A bibliography of traditional music in Papua New Guinea, by K. A. Gourlay Ethnomusicology 23(2): 327-328; Melpa Amb Kenan: Courting Songs of the Melpa people, by Andrew Strathern Ethnomusicology 23(2): 328-329; Musical instruments of Papua New Guinea, by Vida Chenoweth Ethnomusicology 23(2):329-331 ; 'Are un peuple melanesien et sa musique, by D. deCoppet and H. Zemp Ethnomusicology 23(2): 331-334
• 1980 The imagination of reality: essays in Southeast Asian coherence systems, edited by A. L. Becker and A. Yengoyan. Language in Society 9(2): 273-275; The Usarufas and their music, by Vida Chenoweth. Ethnomusicology 24(3): 573-576
• 1981 Music as culture, by M. Herndon and N. McLeod. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council. 12: 91-93
• 1982 The languages of Australia, by R. M. W. Dixon. Language in Society 11:133-135; The Clever Hans Phenomenon: Communication with horses, whales, apes and people, Edited by T. Sebeok and R. Rosenthal Journal of Communication 32(2): 234-236; Classifications in their social contexts, Edited by Roy F. Ellen and David Reason Language in Society ll:493-494
• 1983 Cinema et anthropologie, by Claudine de France Studies in Visual Communication 9(3):88
• 1984 A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff Language in Society 13(1):133-135
• 1986 The Study of Ethnomusicology, by Bruno Nettl Latin American Music Review 7(2):375-378
• 1987 Commercial recordings of Papua New Guinea music l949-l983; 1984 supplement, by Don Niles. Ethnomusicology 31(1):163
• 1988 Women and music in cross-cultural perspective, ed. by Ellen Koskoff American Anthropologist 90(4):1003
• 1989 Music in Society, by Ivo Supicic Ethnomusicology 33(2):321-324
• 1989 Why Suya Sing: A musical anthropology of an Amazonian people, by Anthony Seeger. Yearbook for Traditional Music 21:134-138
• 1990 The Papua New Guinea Music Collection, by Don Niles & Michael Webb. Ethnomusicology 34 (2):332-335
• 1990 Riwain: Papua New Guinea Pop Songs, by Michael Webb & Don Niles. Ethnomusicology 34(2):335-337
• 1992 Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture, by Cynthia J. Novack. Dance Research Journal 24(1):37-8.
• 1993 Metaphor: A Musical Dimension, ed. by Jamie C. Kassler. Oceania 63(4):368; Polynesian Musical Instruments, by Richard Moyle, and, Concepts and Classification of Musical Instruments, by Margaret Kartomi. Oceania 63(4):367-368; The Song to the Flying Fox, by Jurg Wassmann. Australian Journal of Anthropology
• 1995 Lokal Musik: Lingua Franca Song in Papua New Guinea, by Michael Webb. Oceania 65(3):276-278

Reviews of discs

• 1980 The living, dead and dying: Music of the New Guinea Wape, by W.E. Mitchell Ethnomusicology 24(3): 612-614; Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea: Madang, and Windim Mambu: Sacred Flute Music from Madang, by Ragnar Johnson Ethnomusicology 24(3): 614-615
• 1995 Papua New Guinea: The Coast of the Western Province, by Wolfgang Laade. Oceania 65(3): 276

Reviews of films

• 1973 The Nuer Conch Review of Books 1(1): 26-27; Tauw, and, Anansi the Spider Conch Review of Books 1(2): 56; Les Maitres Fous Conch Review of Books 1(3): 91
• 1974 Sambizanga Conch Review of Books 2(1-2): 181; Le retour d'un aventurier Conch Review of Books 2(1-2): 182
• 1975 Discovering the music of Africa, and, Discovering American Indian Music Ethnomusicology 19(2): 341-343; Le Mvet Ethnomusicology 19(3): 513-514 ; Life in Mali Conch Review of Books 3(2-4): 24-25
• 1976 Garcons et Filles. Ethnomusicology 21(1): 173-174

Photography, Film and Artwork

• 1973 The Spirit of Ethnography. 16mm, b/w, optical sound, 17 minutes Narrator, Editor, Camerawork, Actor. Distributed by PCR, Penn State University
• 1980 The Kaluli of Papua New Guinea. (12 color photographs) Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple University traveling show: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History; Kaluli Style (13 color photographs from Papua New Guinea); Four Visions of Culture: Documentary Photography Show Santa Fe Gallery of Photography; A Family Wedding, 16mm, color, optical sound, 30 minutes. Co-directed with Shari Robertson. (documentary film) Preview screening: Conference on Culture and Communication Premiere screening: American Anthropological Association
• 1986 Reves sonores: spectra series. Dreamworks 5(1):34-35

Musical Performance

• 1975-8 co-founder of New Mexico Jazz Workshop Inc. performances in schools throughout New Mexico as well as on radio, in clubs, and in concert settings in bebop, blues, free jazz and new music ensembles; co-organizer and performer at Sunday Jazz in Madrid; Worked with a wide range of local musicians and visiting artists including Tom Guralnick, David Moss, Baird Hersey, Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag, Jean Schwarz, Bourama Soumaro
• 1980- electroacoustic duo and group improvisation concerts with Tom Guralnick throughout Northeast and Southwest US, live and numerous radio broadcasts; since 1989 regular member of the Tom Guralnick Quartet, performing on tenor and bass trombones, bass trumpet, tuba, electronics. The Tom Guralnick Quartet (cassette, 1993 Ubik Sound/Outpost Productions)
• l987- trombone, Leadbelly Legacy Band, Austin, Texas Out on the Western Plains: The Leadbelly Legacy Band plays music of Huddie Ledbetter , (disc, cassette, 1989, Daagnim Records, #17)
• 1991- trombone, Live Action Brass, Austin, Texas Live Action Brass Band (cassette, 1991)