Katherine Brucher
Filiação institucional
DePaul University School of Music (Chicago, USA)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ FCSH
Categoria ou actividade/ Rank or Activity
Associate Professor of Music
Formação Académica/ Education
Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005
A.B. with Honors: Music, English Literature, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999
CARREIRA PROFISSIONAL/PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Associate Professor of Music, DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, Illinois, 2014–
Assistant Professor of Music, DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, Illinois, 2007–2014
Full-time Instructor, Musicology/Composition/Theory Department, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2005–07
Part-time Instructor, Music Appreciation, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Winter and Spring/Summer Terms 2004
Graduate Student Instructor, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003–04
Domínio de especialização/Research domains
Ethnomusicology
Projectos que orientou ou em que participou no INET/ Project Management and Participation
Jazz in Portugal: The Legacies of Luís Villas-Boas and the Hot Clube de Portugal
Research interests
Bandas filarmónicas, brass bands as global phenomena, jazz, music and place, music and urban culture, Chicago's music scenes
ACTIVIDADE LIGADA A ORGANIZAÇÕES ACADÉMICAS E PROFISSIONAIS NACIONAIS E INTERNACIONAIS/ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
Chair, 2010 Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, DePaul University, April 9–11, 2010
President, Midwest Chapter for Ethnomusicology, 2009–10
President-Elect, Midwest Chapter for Ethnomusicology, 2008–09
Program Committee, Midwest Chapter for Ethnomusicology, Spring Meeting, 2009
Local Arrangements Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, 2001
Student Planning Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, 2001
PUBLICAÇÕES/PUBLICATIONS
Livros/Books
Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonialism and Local Music Making, edited volume with Suzel Reily (Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 2013)
Artigos em revistas, livros e enciclopédias de carácter científico/Articles in Journals, Encyclopedias, and Books
"Crossing the Longest Bridge: Portuguese Bands in the Diaspora," world of music (new series), special issue: Transatlantic Musical Flows in the Lusophone World, guest editor: Barbara Alge, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2013)
"Ethnic and Traditional Music in Chicago", Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edn, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
"Fado," Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edn, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
"Pop Show! Popular Music in Banda Filarmónica Repertory in Portugal", in Current Issues in Music Research: Copyright, Power and Transnational Musical Processes, ed. Susana Morena Fernández, Iván Inglesias, and Pedro Roxo (Portugal: Edições Tinta-da-China, 2012), pp. 175–92.
"Celebrating Community in Portuguese Bands," Con Brio (Fall 2011), pp. 18–9.
"Portuguese-American Music," Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edn, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, available: Oxford Music Online, 2010)
"Viva Rhode Island, Viva Portugal! Performance and Tourism in Portuguese-American Bands," in Community, Culture, and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard, ed. Kimberly DaCosta Holton and Andrea Klimt (Dartmouth, Mass: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Press, 2009), pp. 203–226.
"Community Music Making in Portuguese Wind Bands," WASBE Newsletter, Volume XXIII, Number 3 (September 2008), p. 26–7.
Em Preparação/In preparation
Livros /Books
Autoria/Authored
Local Music, Transnational Communities: Bandas Filarmónicas in Portugal and the Diáspora
Local Musicking (with Suzel Reily)
Capítulos em Livros
"Reinterpreting Jazz in Bandas Filarmónicas" in Estudos de Jazz em Portugal, ed. Pedro Roxo and Salwa Castelo-Branco (under review)
"Assembly Lines and Contra Dance Lines: The Ford Motor Company Music Department and Leisure Reform," Journal of the Society for American Music (under review).
CONFERÊNCIAS POR CONVITE/INVITED TALKS
"Is This Land Your Land?," Woody Sez Salon Series, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, Illinois, September 26, 2012.
"Nascer na Música: Musical and Social Education in a Banda Filarmónica," Colóquio para Música em Contexto Série, Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Musica e Dança (INET-MD),Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, March 2011
"Composing Identities and Transposing Values in Portuguese Amateur Wind Bands," Anthropology and Ethnomusicology Seminar, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom, February 2011
"Viva Portugal, Viva Rhode Island: Portugal's Diaspora Comes Home to Play," Guest lecture for DePaul University Anthropology Department, November 2008
"Assembly Lines and Contra Dance Lines: The Ford Motor Company Music Department and Leisure Reform," Ethnoise! Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2008
Residency: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, conducted seminars on ethnography of bandas filarmónicas and historiography of jazz for graduate program in ethnomusicology, June 2007
"Viva Portugal, Viva Rhode Island," Colloquium for Lusophone Globalicities Working Group, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, January 2007
"Assembly Lines and Contra Dances: Henry Ford's Revival of 'Old-fashioned' Dancing and 'Early-American' Music," Faculty Scholars Series, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University, March 2006
"A Banda da Terra: Bandas Filarmónicas and the Performance of Place in Portugal," Department of Musicology Dissertation Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2005
"Bandas Filarmónicas in Contemporary Portugal," Presentation for Masters Seminar in Ethnomusicology at Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2003
COMUNICAÇÕES EM CONGRESSOS NACIONAIS E INTERNACIONAIS, CONFERÊNCIAS E PALESTRAS
"The Jazz's Have Nothing to Do with Jazz: Reinterpreting Jazz in Portugal" for panel The Reception of Jazz in Portugal: Discourses, Mediators, and Practices, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Indianápolis, Indiana, 2013
"Henry Ford's 'Old-Fashioned' Dancing and 'Early American' Music: Americanization through Music and Dance," for At Play in the Space Between, Literature and Culture, 1914–1945, 15th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, June 2013
"Marches of Empire: John Philip Sousa's Musical Borderlands" for panel Music on the Frontiers of U.S. Empire, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Mexico City, November 2009 and revised for panel 1910–1911 World Tour by Sousa's Band: Centennial Reflections, Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2011
"Pop Show! Popular Music in Banda Filarmónica Repertory in Portugal," Conference: Musics and Knowledge in Transit, SIBE+, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2010
"Rapsódias Portuguesas: Filarmónicas and the Performance of Transnationalism and Portuguese Identity," 19th Conference of the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music, Oberschützen, Burgenland, Austria, July 2010
"Musical Banding: Community Bands in American Musical Life" for seminar The Art of Association, Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, March 2010
"Competition in Wind Band Culture;" also served as co-chair of Symposium "Wind Bands in Cross Cultural Perspective," School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast (UK), 11–12 June 2009
"A Banda da Terra: The Intersection of Locality and Musicality in Rural Portugal," for panel Bands, Place, and Community Music Making, presenter, panel chair and organizer, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Middletown, Connecticut, October 2008
"Henry Ford's Revival of Old-fashioned Dance in Dearborn, Michigan," presented for Midwest Chapter of Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March 2008
"Rapsódias Portuguesas: Filarmónicas and the Performance of Transnationalism and Portuguese Identity," presented for European Seminar in Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2007
"Composing Identity and Transposing Values in Portuguese Amateur Wind Bands," presented for 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Vienna Austria, July 2007
"Henry Ford's Manual for Leisure Reform," presented for Music Library Association and Society for American Music Joint Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 2007
"Viva Portugal, Viva Rhode Island: Portugal's Diaspora Comes Home to Play," presented for panel Over and Back: Reciprocal Influences Between Diaspora and Homeland Culture, panel chair and presenter, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2006
"On Stage or in the Street? Bandas Filarmónicas and the Performance of Place," 38th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Sheffield, United Kingdom, August 2005
"Levar o Nome da Terra p'ra Fora: Bandas Filarmónicas Performing Place in Portugal and Abroad," for panel Dislocations: Music and Place in Europe and Diaspora Communities, panel chair, organizer, and presenter, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, November 2004
"Dueling Bandas: Honor and Music at Despiques in Portugal," Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 2003; paper revised as a lecture for Brown University Department of Music, March 2004
"The Ford Music Department's Revival of 'Old-fashioned' Dancing and 'Early American' Music: Music in the Factory and in the Public Schools," Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, March 2002
"Musical Double Consciousness in Duke Ellington's Creole Rhapsody," American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter Conference, University of Michigan, April 2000
ENSINO
Licenciatura (equivalent – undergraduate students pursuing bachelors degree)
Discover Chicago's Music Scenes
Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Musical Encounters in the Portuguese Empire
Music Traditions of América and the World
Sophomore Seminar in Multiculturalism in the United States: World Music
Popular Music in África
Sénior Capstone in Music
Mestrado e Doutoramento
Music Research
Music of World Cultures
INVESTIGAÇÃO DE CAMPO/FIELD RESEARCH
Music and Public Space in Chicago, 2014
Bandas filarmónicas em Portugal, desde 2001
John Philip Sousa and the Sousa Band World Tour, 2010–11
Henry Ford's Sponsorship of Folk Music, 1999–2001, 2003–2013
Bandas filarmónicas em diáspora (Rhode Island, US), 1998, 2005, 2007
PRÉMIOS E OUTRAS DISTINÇÕES/PRIZES AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS
Best Essay Prize for "Henry Ford's 'Old-Fashioned' Dancing and 'Early American' Music: Americanization through Music and Dance," The Space Between Society, Literature and Culture, 1914–1945, 2013
DePaul University School of Music Summer Research Grant, 2011
DePaul University Research Council Research Leave and Grant, January–August 2011
DePaul University Research Council Research Conference Grant, 2010
DePaul University School of Music Summer Research Grant, 2009
Michigan Teaching Fellow, Rackham-CRLT Seminar on College Teaching: Preparing Future Faculty, 2005
Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 2000–03, 2004–05
Luso-American Foundation Fellowship for Predissertation Research, 2002
International Institute Pre-dissertation Summer Research Award, 2001
Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1999–2000
FILIAÇÃO EM ORGANIZAÇÕES ACADÉMICAS/AFFILIATION IN ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for American Music