SUMMER-ABROAD.UCDAVIS.EDU August 28, 2008 06:18 PM
Sandra Graham
Assistant Professor of Music
Ph.D., New York University
sjgraham@ucdavis.edu
Sandra Graham received a B.A. in English from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. in music from Moravian College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in music (concentration in ethnomusicology) from New York University. She founded the program in ethnomusicology at UC Davis, where she teaches courses in musics of the world, ethnomusicology (intellectual history, methods, theory), African American music, and American music. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Music Academy at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New York University, and Washington University.
Slovenia—once part of the former Yugoslavia—is one of Europe’s most beautiful countries, from its short Adriatic coastline to its heavily forested alpine zone to its eastern plains. We’ll study the traditional and popular musics of Central Europe (Slovenia and its neighbors Italy, Austria, Croatia) and its minorities (Bosnians, Roma, Serbians, Albanians) while residing in Ljubljana—the Slovenian capital and the European Union’s presidential seat in 2008. Students will interact with dancers, singers, instrumentalists, and local experts. On occasion our classroom will expand to local folk festivals, fresh air markets, churches, museums, and villages, and we’ll take overnight excursions to Austria and Croatia. The anthropological approach of the course emphasizes the social significance of music as well as musical sound. No specialized knowledge required.
