JENNIFER A. WOODRUFF Department of Music Durham, NC 27708 0665 (919) 660 3300 807 Demerius St. J4 Durham, NC 27701 (404) 421 2229 jenny.woodruff@duke.edu EDUCATION: 2002 present, Durham, NC A.M. in Performance Practice, 2005 Ph.D. in Music (Ethnomusicology), expected 2009 1997 2001 Converse College, Spartanburg, SC B.Mus. in Vocal Performance (summa cum laude) Honors in Vocal Performance DISSERTATION: Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African American Girls and Hip Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club. This project documents African American girls musical practices at a Boys and Girls Club in Durham, NC. I consider how individual interactions with mass mediated music teach girls a black musical aesthetic that allows them to relate to their peers and mentors, and how these interactions highlight the creativity with which they begin to negotiate sexual and racial politics on the margins of society. Advisor: Louise Meintjes Committee: John L. Jackson (Anthropology and Communications), Mark Anthony Neal (African and African American Studies), Diane Nelson (Anthropology), Philip Rupprecht (Music) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Black Popular Culture, Children and the Media, Children and Racial/Gender Identity, Gender and Feminist Theory, Politics of Sound, Politics of Listening GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2008 09 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 2008 09 American Fellow, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (declined)
Jennifer A. Woodruff (2) 2007 08 Dissertation Colloquium Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University 2007 08 Dissertation Working Group, Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University 2006 Summer Fellowship AWARDS: 2008 Dora Ann Little Service Award () 2001 Pi Kappa Lambda Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship (Converse College) 2000 Presser Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship and Service (Converse College) 1997 2001 Trustee Honors Scholarship (Converse College) 1997 2001 Music Dean s Scholar (Converse College) TEACHING INTERESTS: 20 th and 21 st Century Popular Music, Youth Culture, Mass Mediated Culture, African American Popular Culture, Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality Theory, Technologies of the Voice, 19 th and 20 th Century European Art Music, Performance Practice, Vocal Pedagogy TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2008 Guest Lecturer, Converse College Music of Diverse Cultures (Instructor: Siegwart Reichwald) 2007 Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Anthropology and the Media (Instructor: John L. Jackson) 2005 Graduate Instructor, Dude Sounds Like a Lady: Voice and Identity (Freshman Seminar) 2003 06 Teaching Assistant, Music, Social Life and Scenes (Instructor: Louise Meintjes) Music of South Asia (Instructor: Jonathan Kramer) Rap and Hip Hop Appreciation (Instructor: Robi Roberts) Intro to Jazz (Instructor: John Brown) Music after 1850 (Instructor: Bryan Gilliam) COURSES TAKEN: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Studies in Africa (Meintjes) Music and Language (Meintjes) Independent Study in Performance Theory (Meintjes) Theories of Cultural Anthropology I and II (Nelson, Litzinger, Jackson) 2
Jennifer A. Woodruff (3) Race Theory (Lubiano) Gender and Feminist Theory (Krylova) Theories of Black Popular Culture (Neal) African American Music in Early 20 th Century New Orleans (Brothers) Intro to Musicology (Druesedow) Music of the Weimar Republic (Gilliam) Music of the 19 th Cent: Late 19 th Century Symphony (Gilliam) Music of the Baroque: The French Tragedie Lyrique (Burgess) Schenkerian Analysis (Silbiger) Atonal Analysis (Paley) FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE: 2006 07 Dissertation research (Durham, NC) 2005 Preliminary dissertation research (Durham, NC) BOOKS REVIEWED: 2007 Review of The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double Dutch to Hip Hop (New York University Press, 2006) by Kyra Gaunt, Ethnomusicology 51.2, pp. 347 49. INVITED PRESENTATIONS: 2008 Faculty Writing Workshop, Ethnomusicology Working Group, Aug. 29 Sept. 1. CONFERENCE PAPERS: 2008 An Aesthetic of Realness? Theorizing Feeling in African American Girls Singing. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Part of a panel titled Do Ya Feel Me? Exploring Black American Gender and Sexuality Through Emotion and Affect (with Gilmer, Snorten, Robinson, Moten). 2008 I was like : Girls Reframing Hip Hop Identity Politics Through Movement, Gesture and Melodic Reference. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Middletown, CT. Part of a panel titled Techniques of Consumption (with Bickford, Emberley, Keil). 2008 Girl, you nasty!: Policing the Boundaries of Inappropriate Dancing and Immoral Behavior, Mid Atlantic Chapter of Society for Ethnomusicology, New York, NY. Part of panel titled Childhood 3
Jennifer A. Woodruff (4) Media Consumption in the United States (with Bickford, Johnson, Snyder). 2007 Wait til the beat drops : Listening and Learning at a Durham Boys and Girls Club. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH. Part of panel titled The Art of Listening (with Kurpiers, Pyper, Porcello). 2005 Have you heard, have you heard? : Sound, Sexuality, and Missy Elliott s Public Body, Art of Record Production Conference, London. 2004 Missy Elliott, Timbaland and the Meaning of Timbre. South Central Graduate Music Consortium Annual Meeting, Durham, NC. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: 2004 Organizing Committee, South Central Graduate Music Consortium Annual Meeting, Sept. 10 11 LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES: English, reading in German, French and Italian PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Society for Ethnomusicology American Anthropological Association VOCAL PERFORMANCES: 2007 Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown), Duke Hoof N Horn 2006 Recital, Duke Music Dept. Series (Handel, Bach, Berg) 2005 Featured Performer, Duke Composers Concert (Gutnik) 2004 Recital, Duke Chapel Music Series (Debussy, Poulenc, Schubert) 2003 Featured Performer, Encounters With Music of Our Time (Berio) 2003 Featured Performer, Duke Collegium Musicum (Bach) 2003 Master s Recital in Performance Practice (Barber, Schwantner, Crumb) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: 2004 05 Lecture Series Planning Committee 2004 05 External Review Student Coordinator 4
Jennifer A. Woodruff (5) EXTRA DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: 2005 06 Duke Alumni Association Board of Directors 2004 06 Graduate and Professional Student Council Executive Board 2004 05 Board of Trustees Student Affairs Committee 2004 05 Duke Performances Student Advisory Committee RELATED EMPLOYMENT: 2007 08 Graduate Student Programmer, Graduate Student Affairs 2007 Summer Projects Coordinator, Duke Graduate Student Affairs 2006 Early Education Specialist, John Avery Boys and Girls Club 2005 Special Projects Assistant, Duke Graduate Student Affairs 2004 Drama Teacher, Camp Riverlea (Durham, NC) 2001 02 Tour Actor/Director, Missoula Children s Theatre (Missoula, MT) OTHER SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES: Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Triangle (NC) John Avery Boys and Girls Club (NC) Converse College Alumnae Representative REFEREES: Louise Meintjes Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology (919) 660 3339 meintjes@duke.edu John L. Jackson Associate Professor of Anthropology and Communication University of Pennsylvania (919) 219 9369 jjackson@sas.upenn.edu Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African and African American Studies (919) 684 3987 man9@duke.edu Philip Rupprecht Associate Professor of Music 5
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