Jennifer Post

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Jennifer Post

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Ethnomusicology Archives

Email: post@middlebury.edu

Jennifer Post studied composition and ethnomusicology as an undergraduate at Eastman School of Music, Beloit College, and Pune University, receiving her B.A. in music in 1972. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1982, after studying South Asian music and languages with fieldwork and language study in Pune, Mumbai, and Delhi, India. Her doctoral research, supported by the JDR 3rd Foundation, was on the role of Marathi and Konkani speaking women in the classical music tradition of North India. During the 1980s and 1990s, as Curator or the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection housed at Middlebury College, she studied New England musical traditions and her fieldwork was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association for State and Local History. Most recently, she has been conducting research on music in Western China and Mongolia. Her publications include studies on gender and music in South Asia, on music in New England, and on research in the discipline of ethnomusicology. She has published articles in several edited volumes on these subjects, and has also contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music (Stanley Sadie, ed.); The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia (Alison Arnold, ed.), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The United States and Canada (Ellen Koskoff, ed.); American Musical Traditions (Jeff Todd Titon, ed.); American Folklore (Jan Brunvand, ed.); and Music Cultures in the United States (Ellen Koskoff, ed.). Her most recent publications include Music in Rural New England Family and Community Life, 1870-1940 and Ethnomusicology: A Research Guide, both published in 2004. An edited volume, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, will be published in late 2005. Her current courses include Introduction to Music in World Cultures; Asian Music; Music in the United States; Music and Performance in Africa; Music, Gender, and Performance; Songs and Social Movements; Global Popular Music; and Music and the Natural Environment.