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Ted Solis Area: Music Category: Faculty Title: Professor Office: MUSIC-E524 Phone: 480-965-8612 Fax: 480-965-2659 Specialty: Music History, Ethnomusicology Email: ted.solis@asu.edu WebPage: http://music.asu.edu |
| Bio: Ethnomusicologist Ted Solís is Professor of Music. He holds a BA in Music History and Literature from ASU, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and the PhD in Music from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has carried out field research in Northern India, Mexico, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. A member of ASU’s School of Music since 1989, he directs the School of Music’s Latin Marimba band “Marimba Maderas de Comitán” and the Javanese gamelan. His research interests include the Hispanic Caribbean, dance, Hindustani Music, Diasporic musics, Javanese gamelan, and pedagogical issues. He is the editor of the book Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Musics (University of California Press, 2004) and the article “’You Shake Your Hips Too Much’: Diasporic Values and Hawaii Puerto Rican Dance Culture,” in Ethnomusicology 49(1), 2005. |
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