MELISSA GONZALEZ
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EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Music. Columbia University. New York, NY, 2014.
M.A. & M.Phil., Music. Columbia University. New York, NY. A.B., magna cum laude, Ethnomusicology. Barnard College. New York, NY. |
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RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
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Lecturer, Salsa, Soca, Reggae, Columbia University, 2021 - Present.
Adjunct Professor, Musics of Latin America, Fordham University, 2019 - Present. Ethnomusicology Consultant, The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, 2005-2017. Adjunct Lecturer, Diverse Worlds of Music, John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, 2014-15. Visiting Lecturer, World Music, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2014-15. Visiting Lecturer, Music of the Middle East, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2014-15. Visiting Lecturer, Music of Latin America, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2013-15. Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to Music (online course) John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, 2013-15. Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Music, John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, 2012-15. Adjunct Lecturer, Rock and Rap, John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, 2013-14. Adjunct Professor, Music Appreciation, Hofstra University Music Department, 2011-2012. Folklorist/Outreach Coordinator, ArtsWestchester, 2010-11. Archival Assistant, The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, Columbia University, 2004-09. Instructor, Masterpieces of Western Music, Columbia University Music Department, 2005-06. Teaching Assistant, Masterpieces of Western Music, Columbia University, Music Department, 2004-05. Research Assistant, Christopher Washburne, Columbia University Music Department, 2003-04. Graduate Assistant. Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2000-08. Research Assistant, Aaron Fox, Ph.D., Columbia University Music Department, 2000-02. |
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FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
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Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-09.
Columbia University Traveling Fellowship, 2006-07. Foreign Language Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship (declined), 2006-07. Woodrow Wilson Travel and Research Grant, 2006-07. GSAS Summer Merit Award, 2006-08. Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, 2006-07. SSRC-Mellon Predoctoral Summer Research Grant, 2001-06. Columbia University Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, 2001-05. Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2000-01, 2002-2003, 2004-05 Columbia University Faculty Fellowship in the Department of Music, 2003-05. Student Thesis Fellowship-Barnard Project on Diaspora and Migration, 2001. Andrew Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2000. |
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REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
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"Central American Music." The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Ed. Charles Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Música Típica." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music. Ed. Jorge Torres. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2014. "Music of Panama." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music, Ed. Jorge Torres. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2014. "Pindín." The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Genres of Caribbean and Central and South American Origin. Ed. David Horn. New York: Continuum, 2013. |
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UNPUBLISHED ACADEMIC WORKS
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“Cien por Ciento Nacional!”: Panamanian Música Típica and the Quest for National and Territorial Sovereignty. Ph.D. Dissertation (Music), Columbia University, 2014.
Welcome to the Thunderdome: Socio-Musical Conflict and the Search for Respect in the New York City Afro-Cuban Jazz Scene. M.A. thesis (Music), Columbia University, 2003. The Micro Poetics of Soneo Construction in Salsa: A Musical and Socio-Linguistic Analysis. B.A. thesis (Ethnomusicology), Barnard College, Columbia University, 2000. |
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FIELDWORK
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New York, NY, ethnographic fieldwork on digital and physical music distribution at The Orchard, a subsidiary of SONY Music, 2014-2017.
NYSCA sponsored fieldwork to locate Long Island-based musicians specializing in the performance of Latin American traditional musics, 2010-2012. Panama City, Panama and the regions of Panama, Herrera, Las Tablas, Veraguas, and Coclé, dissertation fieldwork on música típica popular and Panamanian folklore, 2005-07. New York City, NY, ethnographic research on the Afro-Cuban jazz scene, 2000-03. San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico, research in Puerto Rican folkloric music, 2000. Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantanamo, Cuba, research in Afro-Cuban folkloric percussion, 2000. New York City, New York, ethnographic research on the salsa scene, 1999-2002. |
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PRESENTATIONS
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"The Musical Journey of the African Diaspora: Latin America." Paper presented at the United Nations Remember Slavery Program managed by the Department of Public Information (DPI), New York, NY, 14, April, 2016.
"Hecho en Panamá Atlas: Música típica, Beer, and the Rise of Commercial Nationalism." Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 13-16, November, 2014. "Singing to the Motherland": Negotiating the feminine voice in Panamanian Música Típica. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 17-20, November, 2011. "Nationalist Reimaginings of Panamanian Música Típica." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto Canada, 6-9, October, 2010. “Isthmian Imaginaries": Panamanian cultural policy and the making of música típica. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 19-22, November, 2009. “A Bailar Pindín!": The musical and commercial transfiguration of a Panamanian rural music genre. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 24-28, October, 2007. "A genre without a name?" Panamanian Música Típica: Paper presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, New York, NY, 27, March, 2007. "Afro-Cuban Jazz and the Latino Paradox." Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-16, November, 2007. “Welcome to the Thunderdome...Welcome to my Nightmare!": Socio-musical conflict in the New York City Afro-Cuban jazz scene. Paper presented at the SSRC-Mellon Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 9-13 June, 2004. |
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MUSICAL TRAINING & PERFORMANCE ACTIVITY
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Guitar, Jon Darling, New York, NY, 2014-Present.
Vocal Performance, Guadaloupe Peraza, New York, NY, 2013-Present. Diatonic Button Accordion, Aceves Nuñez, Panama City, Panama, 2005-07. Panamanian Folkloric Percussion, Ricaute Villarreal, Panama City, Panama, 2005-07. Panamanian Folkloric Dance, Raul Vital, Panama City, Panama, 2006-07. Vocal instruction, Yuri Shenker, Boston, MA, 2002-2003. Conga/Bongo/Timbales, Ismel Diaz Barrios, Trinidad, Cuba, 1999. Timbales/Congas, Latin Jazz Ensemble, Guantanamo, Cuba, 1999. Soprano, Columbia University Opera Ensemble, New York, NY, 1997-99. Voice, Jane McMahan, New York, NY, 2000-02. Voice, Manhattan School of Music, Lynn Owen, New York, NY, 1998-99. Soprano, New York City Opera Workshop, New York, NY, 1994-95. |
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LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES
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English: Native speaker
Spanish: Advanced reading, writing, and conversation Portuguese: Advanced reading, writing, and intermediate conversation Italian: Intermediate reading, writing, and basic conversation French: Intermediate reading, writing, and basic conversation |
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE
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Folk Arts Panelist at the New York State Council of
the Arts, 2009-11.
Music Panelist at the New York State Council of the Arts, 2010. Member, Editorial Board of Current Musicology, 2007-11. Graduate Student Mentor, Office of Minority Affairs, Columbia University, 2004-08. Member, Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Council, 2003-06. |
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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College Music Society, 2014 - Present
International Council for Traditional Music, 2014-Present Latin American Studies Association, 2009-Present International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2007-Present American Anthropological Association, 2006-Present Society for Ethnomusicology, 2003-Present. |
