Curriculum Vitae
Sandra Graham
LIST OF PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS (updated 09/2006)
SANDRA GRAHAM, Ph.D.
Deartment of Music
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
(530) 752-2603 - sjgraham@ucdavis.edu
EDUCATION
New York University, New York City, New York Doctor of Philosophy in Music, concentration in ethnomusicology
(January 2001)
Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts degree, major in music (December 1991)
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Bachelor of Arts degree, major in English.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (appointed 2002): Founder of program in Ethnomusicology.
Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and University of Zagreb, Croatia (2006)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2002)
Adjunct Instructor, New York University, New York City, New York (1996-2000)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (Spring 1999)
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
University of California, Davis, Faculty Development Grant, Fall 2005
National Endowment of the Humanities 2005 Summer Research Grant ("We the People" project)
University of California, Davis, Committee on Research Summer Research Grant, 2003
American Association of University Women, American Fellowship, 1997-98
Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship for dissertation research, Arts in American Society, 1996-97, New York University
COMPETITIVE HONORS
Society for American Music Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in American Music, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
From Slave Song to America's Music: The Popularization of Negro Spirituals, University of Illinois Press, in preparation.
Review of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks in
Current Musicology, in press (2006).
"What's the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals," Muzikoloski zbornik (Jan. 2007), in
press.
"On the Road to Freedom: The Contracts of the Fisk Jubilee Singers," American Music 24/1 (2006): 1-29.
http://am.press.uiuc.edu/24/1/index.html
Book review of The Music of American Folk Song, and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music, ed.
Larry Polansky with Judith Tick, published in Notes, December (2002).
"Songs of the Slaves," chapter in Study Guide on African American spirituals for performance by Sweet Honey in the
Rock; published by Cal Performances, Berkeley, 2002.
"The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Concert Spiritual: The Beginnings of an American Tradition" (Ph.D. dissertation,
New York University, 2001).
INVITED PAPERS
"Shifting Ideologies in African American Musical Scholarship," Croatian Musicological Society, June 2006, Zagreb
"Composing in Black and White: Code-switching in the Songs of Sam Lucas," paper presented at the Society for
American Music annual conference, Chicago, March 2006
"Three Cases of Musical Change in the Negro Spiritual," panel organizer, and paper presenter, "Transformation as
Survival Strategy: Commercial Spirituals," at 50th annual meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, November
2005, Atlanta.
"Re-presenting the Folk Spiritual: A Case Study from Blackface Minstrelsy," paper presented at the International
Council for Traditional Music biannual conference, Sheffield, England, August 2005.
"Considering Curricular Challenges: Balancing Emerging Student and Cultural Demands with Traditional Music
Teaching and Learning," Panel presenter and discussant, joint meeting of the Pacific Central Chapter of the College
Music Society, West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, and Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory,
19 March 2005, San Francisco.
"Keeping Traditional Music Relevant: The Case of the Negro Spiritual" and "Ethnomusicology and American Musical
Identity: Historical Overview." Papers presented at the conference Traditional Music in Asia: Adapting to a
Globalized World, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 2005.
"Composing in Black and White: The Songs of Sam Lucas," presented at A Century of Composing in America
1820-1920, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, November 2004.
"From Sacred to Sacrilege? Spirituals in Postbellum Blackface Minstrelsy," Emerging Scholarship Panel at the annual
conference of the Association of Theater in Higher Education, Toronto, July 2004; completed papers were
adjudicated before acceptance.
"Teaching Controversial Aspects of American Music: A Panel Discussion," panel presenter and discussant, moderated
by James Deaville, at joint meeting of Association for Recorded Sound Collections & Society for American Music,
Cleveland, Ohio, March 2004
"What's the Score? Interpreting Theodore Seward's Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals," presented at the
annual meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, Miami, Florida, October 2003; also panel chair for session
entitled "Writing It Down: Transcriptions in the Representation of Musical Experience"
"From Sacred to Sacrilege? Spirituals in Postbellum Blackface Minstrelsy," paper presented at the annual meeting of
the Society for American Music, March 2003, Tempe, Arizona
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Council member, Society for Ethnomusicology (term begins 2007)
Editor, Society for American Music Bulletin (Jan. 2005-2009)
Member, 2004 Dissertation Prize Committee for Society for American Music's Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize
President, Northern California Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology (2003-2005)
SANDRA GRAHAM, Ph.D.
Deartment of Music
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
(530) 752-2603 - sjgraham@ucdavis.edu
EDUCATION
New York University, New York City, New York Doctor of Philosophy in Music, concentration in ethnomusicology
(January 2001)
Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts degree, major in music (December 1991)
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Bachelor of Arts degree, major in English.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (appointed 2002): Founder of program in Ethnomusicology.
Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and University of Zagreb, Croatia (2006)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2002)
Adjunct Instructor, New York University, New York City, New York (1996-2000)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (Spring 1999)
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
University of California, Davis, Faculty Development Grant, Fall 2005
National Endowment of the Humanities 2005 Summer Research Grant ("We the People" project)
University of California, Davis, Committee on Research Summer Research Grant, 2003
American Association of University Women, American Fellowship, 1997-98
Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship for dissertation research, Arts in American Society, 1996-97, New York University
COMPETITIVE HONORS
Society for American Music Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in American Music, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
From Slave Song to America's Music: The Popularization of Negro Spirituals, University of Illinois Press, in preparation.
Review of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks in
Current Musicology, in press (2006).
"What's the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals," Muzikoloski zbornik (Jan. 2007), in
press.
"On the Road to Freedom: The Contracts of the Fisk Jubilee Singers," American Music 24/1 (2006): 1-29.
http://am.press.uiuc.edu/24/1/index.html
Book review of The Music of American Folk Song, and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music, ed.
Larry Polansky with Judith Tick, published in Notes, December (2002).
"Songs of the Slaves," chapter in Study Guide on African American spirituals for performance by Sweet Honey in the
Rock; published by Cal Performances, Berkeley, 2002.
"The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Concert Spiritual: The Beginnings of an American Tradition" (Ph.D. dissertation,
New York University, 2001).
INVITED PAPERS
"Shifting Ideologies in African American Musical Scholarship," Croatian Musicological Society, June 2006, Zagreb
"Composing in Black and White: Code-switching in the Songs of Sam Lucas," paper presented at the Society for
American Music annual conference, Chicago, March 2006
"Three Cases of Musical Change in the Negro Spiritual," panel organizer, and paper presenter, "Transformation as
Survival Strategy: Commercial Spirituals," at 50th annual meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, November
2005, Atlanta.
"Re-presenting the Folk Spiritual: A Case Study from Blackface Minstrelsy," paper presented at the International
Council for Traditional Music biannual conference, Sheffield, England, August 2005.
"Considering Curricular Challenges: Balancing Emerging Student and Cultural Demands with Traditional Music
Teaching and Learning," Panel presenter and discussant, joint meeting of the Pacific Central Chapter of the College
Music Society, West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, and Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory,
19 March 2005, San Francisco.
"Keeping Traditional Music Relevant: The Case of the Negro Spiritual" and "Ethnomusicology and American Musical
Identity: Historical Overview." Papers presented at the conference Traditional Music in Asia: Adapting to a
Globalized World, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 2005.
"Composing in Black and White: The Songs of Sam Lucas," presented at A Century of Composing in America
1820-1920, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, November 2004.
"From Sacred to Sacrilege? Spirituals in Postbellum Blackface Minstrelsy," Emerging Scholarship Panel at the annual
conference of the Association of Theater in Higher Education, Toronto, July 2004; completed papers were
adjudicated before acceptance.
"Teaching Controversial Aspects of American Music: A Panel Discussion," panel presenter and discussant, moderated
by James Deaville, at joint meeting of Association for Recorded Sound Collections & Society for American Music,
Cleveland, Ohio, March 2004
"What's the Score? Interpreting Theodore Seward's Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals," presented at the
annual meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, Miami, Florida, October 2003; also panel chair for session
entitled "Writing It Down: Transcriptions in the Representation of Musical Experience"
"From Sacred to Sacrilege? Spirituals in Postbellum Blackface Minstrelsy," paper presented at the annual meeting of
the Society for American Music, March 2003, Tempe, Arizona
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Council member, Society for Ethnomusicology (term begins 2007)
Editor, Society for American Music Bulletin (Jan. 2005-2009)
Member, 2004 Dissertation Prize Committee for Society for American Music's Wiley Housewright Dissertation Prize
President, Northern California Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology (2003-2005)