The Music Department is excited to welcome Professors Charrise Barron and Alejandro Madrid to the faculty.
Assistant Professor of Music Charrise Barron is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of African American religious and cultural history. Her research, writing, and presentations have explored a range of topics in African American music, religion, and culture. Her current book project, The Platinum Age of Gospel, centers on contemporary gospel music and illuminates the marked shifts away from previous eras of gospel performance and culture which have defined the last thirty years of the genre.
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music Alejandro Madrid is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American and Latinx studies. He spent the 2022-2023 academic year as a Guggenheim Fellow in Berlin, working on his upcoming book The Archive and the Sounded City. Gimmicks, Networks, Utopias, and the Logic of Archival Knowledge at the Aural Turn. While in Europe, he was invited to present at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, the Berlin Ethnomusicology and the Anthropology of Music Study Group at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Universität Wien. His most recent book, Tania León’s Stride. A Polyrhythmic Life (University of Illinois Press) was awarded the Bronze Medal for best Biography in English at the International Latino Book Awards and an Honorable Mention at the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Portia K. Maultsby Prize.
We are thrilled to have these incredible professors joining us in Fall 2023.
