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PhD Theses

Peter Verdin, "Disco es cultura: Discourse, Hermeneutics, and the Social Lives of the "Yuyay Jap'ina Tapes�� ()

Jordan Zalis, �Net Effects: Nationalist-Capitalist Hegemony in the Hip Hop-Basketball Paradigm� ()

Jing Xia, �Shaping Selves in the Diaspora: Contemporary Chinese Instrumental Musicians and Transnational/Intercultural Music-Making in North America� ()

Jacob Danson Faraday, "Buried in the Mix: Touring Sound Technicians, Sonic Control, and Emotional Labour on Cirque du Soleil�s Corteo" ()

Mathias Kom, �Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Antifolk in Berlin and New York� ()

Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw, �Curating Canadianess: Public Service Broadcasting, Fusion Programming, and Hierarchies of Difference� ()

Mark Finch, �Bluegrass In and Around Toronto: Urban Scenes, Regional Imaginaries, and Divergent Trajectories� ()

Leila Qashu, �Towards an Understanding of Justice, Belief and Women's Rights: Ateetee, an Arsi Oromo Women's Musical Dispute Resolution Process in Ethiopia� ()

Mary Piercey-Lewis, �Inulariuyunga: Imngirnik Quvigiyaqaqtunga! I'm a Real Inuk; I Love to Sing! Interactions Between Music, Inummariit and Belief in an Inuit Community Since Resettlement� ()

Ian Hayes, ��It�s a balancing act. That's the secret to making this music fit in today�: Negotiation Professional and Vernacular Boundaries in Cape Breton Fiddling� ()

Marion MacLeod, �Raising the Bar: The Reciprocal Roles and Deviant distinctions of Music and Alcohol in Acadiana� ()

Evelyn Osborne, �The Most (Imagined) Irish Place in the World? The Interaction Between Irish and Newfoundland Musicians, Media and the Musical Construction of Place� ()

, �Encoding Song: Faithful Defiance in Mexican Mennonite Music Making� ()

Janice Esther Tulk, �Our Strength is Ourselves: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization Among the Mi�kmaq in Newfoundland� ()

Master of Arts � Theses 

Rachel Landy, �Hip Hop for Health Promotion: An Exploratory Descriptive Study of Hip Hop-Based HIV/AIDS Education� ()

Samantha Fletcher, �Good Works with Benefits: Using Applied Ethnomusicology and Participatory Action Research in Benefit Concert Production at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver� ()

Kathleen Wiens, �Music and Politics in the Croatian-Canadian Community� ()

Master of Arts � Major Research Papers

André Lorenz Feria, �Pantayong Musika: Resounding Filipino Music in the Diaspora� (2025)

Arsalan Muhammad Pareyal, �The Legacy of Colonialism: Music Education Dynamics in Karachi, Pakistan� (2025)

Amélie Roberts, �Listening as Relational Action: A Sonic Exploration of Place, Proximity, and Belonging at the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba� (2025)

Mahina Graham-Laidlaw, �Examining Cultural Scenes of St. John�s: Musicians of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra� (2024)

Joanna Simoens, �Dans cette maison, on parle français�: Performing Franco-Manitoban Pluralism at Winnipeg�s Festival du Voyageur (2023)

Humberto Piccoli, �Alliance-Making through International Musicians� Stage Talk at Multicultural Events in St. John�s, NL� (2023)

Tia Julien, �The Power of the Spoken Word: Performing Community in the Toronto Poetry Slam� (2022)

Sarah van den Berg, �Bringing the Bar Online and Le Cadavre Exquis: Pandemic-era musicking at the Westben Centre for Connection and Creativity� (2022)

Ryan Ritter-Jones, �Reflections on Dance and Violence: Mosh Pit Culture in Denver, Colorado� (2021)

Mariana Castro-Carvajal, �One for all, and all for one: The Performance of Belonging in Catholic Cholula� (2021)

Eric Taylor Gomes-Escudero, �Livestreaming Tradition: Brazilian Fandango Caiçara and Music Sustainability in the Time of Covid-19� (2021)

Gale Franklin, �The Listening Habitus of Syrian Refugees in Canada: Tactical Listening amid Conflict, Displacement and Resettlement.� (2020)

Christian Dauble, �Dancing Statues: Techniques of Embodied Practice for Strathspey Performance in Competitive Scottish Highland Bagpiping� (2019)

Ellen McCutcheon, �Reflections on an Arts NGO in Tanzania� (2019)

Jane Dennison, �Let's Dance! Strategies for Sustainability of Set Dance in Newfoundland and Labrador� (2019)

Michelle Robertson, �Hey Rosetta!: An Exploration of Place and Identity in Newfoundland Popular Music� (2018)

Aubrey Maks, �Shifting Reconciliation Dialogue? Maoritanga, Biculturalism, and Multiculturalism at Aotearoa-New Zealand Music Festivals and the Treaty of Waitangi� (2017)

Vanessa Shalton, �Tiens-Toé Ben (Hold On): Swing and Franco-Ontarian Identity� (2017)

Hadi Milanloo, �Coming from Far Away: Women and Listening Practices in the Iranian Community in St. John�s� (2016)

Daniel Hawkins, �Becoming Part of the Shared Tune: Participation and Disarray at Maine Fiddle Camp� (2016)

Toshio Oki, �Creating a Scene: Innovation and the Relocation of Authenticity among Japanese Performers of Irish Traditional Music in Tokyo� (2015)

Melody McKiver, �A Tribe Called Red: Creating a Place for Decolonization� (2014)

Amanda Ironside, �Sandy MacIntyre and the Cape Breton Sessions� (2014)

Krista Vincent, �'Talking About Music is Like Dancing About Architecture': New Listeners and Contemporary Classical Music Reception� (2014)

Mehrenegar Rostami, �Approaches to Improvisation and Intercultural Musical Encounter in Silent City� (2014)

Emeline Reynolds, ��How Can I Keep From Singing?�: Interactions of Faith, Practice, and History in the Music of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in New England� (2013)

Jasmine McMorran, �Cape Breton Piano: The Progression and Passing on of Innovation and Tradition� (2013)

David Lander, �The Production of the Reykjavik Music Scene Through the Iceland Airwaves Festival� (2012)

Kathryn (Meghan) Bowen, �Innovation and Continuity: The Application of Liturgical Inculturation in Two Churches in St. John�s, Newfoundland� (2012)

Victor Tung, �Revitalized and Contextualized Music among Aboriginal Taiwanese: A Study of Christian Siraya in Jioucengling Village� (2012)

Tiffany Pollack, �Musical Routes Creating Community Roots� (2010)

Alison Corbett, ��My first instrument is my computer�: The Role of Web 2.0 in the Life of Canadian Musician Ian Foster� (2010) 

Marc Finch, �Performance and the Experience of Authenticity: An Ethnography of Two Bluegrass Nights in Toronto� (2010)

Michelle Swab, �On Collaboration: Embodied Intersubjectivity and Singer-Pianist Relationships� (2010)

Patrick Brennan, �Art Rock: Nationalism, Cultural Distinctiveness, and Reflections of the Group of Seven in Canadian Popular Music� (2009)

Evelyne Lavoie, �Concept, Context and Collaboration in R. Murray Schafer�s Patria 7: Asterion� (2009)

Jordan Mitchell, �Lyrical muse-ings: an Inter-Individual Analysis of Lyrics, Lyricists and Music within a Small Community in St. John�s, Newfoundland� (2009)

Erin Sharpe, �Music and Identity Construction Among Mi�kmaq in Bay St. George, Newfoundland� (2009)

Jeremy Strachan, �Nationalism, the Centennial and Canadian Classical Music: Three Case Studies of Composers Using Indigenous Cultural Texts� (2009)

Heather Wright, �Taking Up (Men�s) Space: Female Musicians� Experience and Identity-Construction in the Traditionally Male-Dominated World of Highland Piping� (2009)

Ainslie Durnin, �(Un)expected Sounds: Cross-Cultural Listeners� Perceptions of Contemporary Sami Music� (2008)

Kelly Best, �A Performance Ethnography of the 2005 Beaches Accordion Festival, Eastport, Newfoundland� (2006)