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Dr. CHRISTOPHER G. BAKRIGES

37 Heartwood Lane, Whitingham, VT 05361

Telephone: 802-368-7217

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AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

World Music, Ethnomusicology (transcription, analysis, field/lab methods, area studies)
Jazz (musicianship, theory, arranging, history, ensemble, performance), piano, M.I.D.I.
American Music History, Improvisation, Modernism, Transculturation, and Popular- Music
Popular Music, Musical Languages of African American Postmodernism

EDUCATION

Ph.D. | Musicology/Ethnomusicology. York University, Toronto, Ontario- 6/01
Dissertation: African American Musical Avant-Gardism

Advisor: Rob Bowman

M.A. | World Music Program/Ethnomusicology. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT- | 5/95
Thesis: Event as Culture Capital: The October Revolution in Jazz and the- Formation of the Jazz Composers Guild

Advisor: Anthony Braxton

M.A. | International Politics and Economics. University of Detroit, Detroit,- Michigan | 5/84
Thesis: Aesthetics and the Human Dimension of Japanese Economic- Performance

Advisor: Paul Tai

B.A. | Honors College, University of Detroit | 5/80

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Institute, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA- | 8/07
Classes in Conducting Gospel Choirs, Accompanying, Music Theory, & Vocal- Technique

Teacher Training Track, International Association of Jazz Educators, Manhattan, KS- | 1/01
Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum, University of Southern- California

College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York | 8/92-5/93
Courses in orchestration, arranging, improvisation, big band, & studio sound- recording

University of Massachusetts, Jazz in July Program. Amherst, Massachusetts- | 7/90-7/91
Studies with Billy Taylor, Fred Tillis, Max Roach and Victor Gaskin

Manhattan School of Music. New York, New York | 6/89-8/89
Studies with Harold Danko and Jaki Byard

Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont | 8/84-5/87
Coursework with Joel Chadabe in computer music

State University of New York @ Albany, New York | 8/85-5/87
Graduate work in international relations at Rockefeller College of Public- Affairs