Faculty: Ethnomusicology
Jane Sugarman
Professor, Graduate Center
(Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1993)
Ph.D./DMA Program in Music, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-817-8590 jsugarman@gc.cuny.edu
Jane Sugarman's research focuses on music's role in processes of
identity formation, with particular attention to communities in and from
Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. Her 1997 book Engendering
Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings was
awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize; and in 2004 she received the Jaap
Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for her article, "Those
'Other Women': Dance and Femininity among Prespa Albanians." In addition
to extensive research on the relationship of music and gender, she has
also written on issues of modernity and globalization, diaspora
communities, nationalism, and the role of music in conflict situations.
She is currently preparing a book on the transnational Albanian
commercial music industry, based on field research conducted in Kosova,
Macedonia, Albania, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States.
She has previously taught at Stony Brook University, where
she was affiliated with the programs in Cultural Studies and Women's
Studies and received the President's and Chancellor's Awards for
Excellence in Teaching.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"'Kosova Calls for Peace: Song, Myth, and War in an Age of Global
Media," in Music and Conflict: Ethnomusicological Perspectives,
ed. John O'Connell and Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco (Urbana: Univ. of
Illinois Press, forthcoming).
"Albania." Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, v. 7, ed.
John Shepherd, David Horn, and Dave Laing (London: Continuum Books,
forthcoming).
"'The Criminals of Albanian Music': Albanian Commercial Folk Music and
Issues of Identity since 1990," in Balkan Popular Culture and the
Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse, ed.
Donna A. Buchanan (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007), 269-307.
"The Prespa Wedding and Emigration, 1980-2006."/"Dasma prespare dhe
kurbeti (1980-2006)," in Prespa, Immigration-Repatriation, ed.
Ali Aliu et al. (Skopje, Macedonia: Prespa United Us, 2006), 42-46.
"Inter-Ethnic Borrowing and Musical Modernity in 'Balkan' Popular Musics
Past and Present," in Urban Music in the Balkans: Drop-Out Ethnic
Identities or a Historical Case of Tolerance and Global Thinking?,
ed. Sokol Shupo (Tirana, Albania: Documentation and Communication Center
for Regional Music, 2006), 64-75.
"Diasporic Dialogues: Mediated Musics and the Albanian Transnation," in
Identity and the Arts in Diaspora Communities, ed. Thomas Turino
and James Lea (Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2004), 21-38.
"Those 'Other Women': Dance and Femininity among Prespa Albanians." in
Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean, ed. Tullia
Magrini (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003), 87-118. Winner of the
Jaap Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for the most
significant article of the year.
"Albania II: Traditional Music." New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, 2nd ed., v. 1 (London: Macmillan, 2001), 285-89.
"Yugoslavia: III. 3. Traditional Music: Kosovo and Related Albanian
Music Traditions." New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
2nd ed., v. 27 (London: Macmillan, 2001), 693-94.
"Albanian Music." Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, v. 8 (New
York: Garland, 2000), 986-1006.
"Mediated Albanian Musics and the Imagining of Modernity," in New
Countries, Old Sounds? Cultural Identity and Social Changes in
Southeastern Europe, ed. Bruno B. Reuer (Munich: Verlag
Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1999), 134-54.
"Imagining the Homeland: Poetry, Songs, and the Discourses of Albanian
Nationalism." Ethnomusicology 43/3 (Fall 1999), 419-58.
Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian
Weddings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997; with
accompanying CD). Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize for 1998.
"The Nightingale and the Partridge: Singing and Gender among Prespa
Albanians." Ethnomusicology 33/2 (Spring-Summer 1989), 191-215.
Revised version published in Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds,
ed. Jane A. Bernstein (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 2003), 261-84.
"'Making Muabet': The Social Basis of Singing among Prespa Albanian
Men." Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 7 (1988), 1-42.
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