- Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999
Daniel B. Reed
Laura Boulton Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
he/him
- reedd@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-2535
- 800 E. 3rd St., 245
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- Africa
- music and religion
- mask performance
- ritual
- identity
- popular music
- immigration
- transnationalism
- diaspora
- music and health
Courses recently taught
- African Mobilities and Expressive Culture
- Global Pop Music
- Music, Immigration and Diaspora
- Music in Religious Thought & Experience
- Music in African Life
- Writing & Representation
Awards & Distinctions
- Laura Boulton Professor of Ethnomusicology (2016)
- IU Vice Provost for Research Summer Faculty Fellowship (2014)
- IU Trustees Teaching Award (2014, 2006)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar Award (2011)
- Amaury Talbot Prize for book Dan Ge Performance (2004)
Other publication highlights
- 2020. “Ruth Stone: Making Connections.” Africa Today. 67(2-3):175-187.
- 2016. “Drums, Dance, Dreams and Remittance: Transnational Interconnections in Ivorian Immigrant Mask Performance in the USA.” African Arts 49 (4), Winter 2016, 34-47.
- 2015. “An Ivorian Wedding in an Indiana Cornfield: “Ballet” Discourse and New Diasporic Community.” The world of music (new series) 4 (2), 15-36.
- 2011. “C’est le Wake Up! Africa: Two Case Studies of HIV/AIDS Edutainment Campaigns in Francophone Africa.” Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen, eds. The Culture of AIDS in Africa. London: Oxford University Press.
- 2005. “The Ge is in the Church and Our Parents are ‘Playing Muslim:’ Performance, Identity, and Resistance among the Dan in Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire.” Ethnomusicology, 49 (3) pp.347-36.
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