Table Of ContentABRIDGED VITAE OF PORTIA K. MAULTSBY Comment [COMMENT1]: This vitae
does not contain amount of grants.
REVISED 1/97. This is an abridged
version.
Contains beginning sections publ.
Personal Data conference
papers and invited lectures
beginning with 1985.
Home address: Business address:
537 Plymouth Road Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Bloomington, Indiana 47408 504 N. Fess St.
(812) 333-2544 Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
(8l2) 855-2708
FAX: (812) 855-4008
Internet: [email protected]
School/Department/Program Affiliations
School of Music, American Studies, and African Studies
Education
University of Wisconsin 1974 Ph.D. Ethnomusicology
Madison, Wisconsin (African and African-American Music
Minor Field: African-American Studies)
University of Wisconsin 1969 M.M. (Musicology)
Madison, Wisconsin
Mount St. Scholastica 1968 B.M. (Piano, Theory/Composition)
College, Atchison, KS
Mozarteum--Salzburg Summer 1967 Studied piano, music history and
University of Salzburg German
Salzburg, Austria
Dissertation
"Afro-American Religious Music: 1619-1861. Part II-- Historical Development; Part II--Computer
Analysis of One-Hundred Spirituals," (1974).
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Academic Experiences---Teaching/Administrative
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:
1992 Professor
1991-present. Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture
1985-91 Departmental Chair, Afro-American Studies
1981-84 Associate Chair, Afro-American Studies
1981 Associate Professor
1975 Assistant Professor
1971-1974 Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor
Visiting Professorship/Scholar/Fellow:
1999-2000 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA
Spring 1998 Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Musicology Department
Belle van Zuylen Professor of African American Music
Spring 1994 Colorado College, Music Department
Visiting Professor
1984-1985 Senior Visiting Scholar, Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Summer 1983 Seattle Pacific University, Music Department
Visiting Professor
Fall 1982 Swarthmore College, Music Department
Visiting Professor
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Courses Taught
Black Music in America Popular Music of Black America
Art Music of Black Composers Black Religious Music
Hip-Hop Music and Culture Theoretical Issues in African-American Music
Soul Music: Culture & Performance (Ensemble)
Black Music of Two Worlds--team taught History of Ideas (Ethnomusicology)--team taught
Seminar in Ethnomusicology--team taught Black American Music in the Netherlands
Theorizing Hip-Hop Music and Culture Ethnomusicology and the Public Sector I & II
Grants/Fellowships
IU College of Arts and Sciences and Teaching Learning Technologies Lab grants to complete an
instructional web site, “Hip-Hop Music and Culture” $20,000 and $2,500 respectively, 2001
IU Ameritech Grant: “Multicultural Multimedia on the Web: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop, the Music
and Culture of Black America” (three instructional websites), $15,000, July 1, 2000-December
2001
Office of International Programs, Overseas Conference Fund for travel to The Netherlands, Summer
1999.
$300,000 Departmental Grant (secured as departmental chair) from the Ford Foundation, 1990.
Research Grant from the President's Council on International Programs (Indiana University in
support of presentations made in the USSR, Summer 1988.
Research Grant awarded by Ford Foundation/National Research Council and matched by the
College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Research and Graduate Development-Indiana
University, 1985-1986.
Ford Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the National Research Council, 1984-1985.
Indiana Committee for the Humanities-Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 1984.
Grant-in-Aid for Research--Indiana University, 1983-1984.
Course Development Grant--Learning Resources, Indiana University, 1981-82.
International Travel-Overseas Conference Fund for travel to Oxford, England--Indiana University,
Summer 1981.
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Distinctions and Awards
Teaching Excellence Faculty Award—Indiana University, Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, 2003.
Teaching Excellence Faculty Award –Indiana University, Department of Afro-American
Studies,1997
One of forty-two Ford Foundation Fellows selected to be profiled in Excellence Through Diversity,
published by the National Research Council, 1996.
Chosen for inclusion in Facts on File on American Black Women (12 volume series). Darlene
Clark Hine, General Editor (New York: Carlson Publishing, forthcoming). This resource book
contains essays on prominent African American women in various academic fields and professions.
Profiled in Rolling Stone, September 17, 1992.
One of eight American performers/scholars selected to participate in a workshop/conference on
"African American Sacred Music," in Havana, Cuba sponsored by the National Choir of Cuba and
the Ecumenical Council of Cuba (1990).
Profiled in the Black History Month Calendar developed, published and distributed nationally by
Tanqueray (1989).
One of six American ethnomusicologists selected to participate in an American-Soviet research
conference in the USSR. Sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board (1988).
Listed in: International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England: I.W.W.M. (1987).
Faculty Excellence Awarded for Outstanding Accomplishments - Indiana University Black Student
Union (1986).
Awarded Honorary Doctor of Music degree, Benedictine College, Kansas (1985).
Listed in: Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (1982).
Listed in: Minority American Women: A Biographical Directory. New York: Neal-Schuman
(1981).
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Professional Activities
Membership in Professional Organizations
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music: Executive Board Member (U.S.A.
Branch),1987-2005; Editorial Board (International Body), 1989-present (U.S.A. Branch).
Society for Ethnomusicology: Council Chairperson, 1982-84; Board of Directors, Member-at-Large
1978-80; Council Member, 1973-76, 1977-80, l988-1991; Program Committee, 1971, 1976, and
1984; Session Chairperson, 1971, 1977, 1984; Local Arrangements, 1981, 1984, 1998 Program
Committee, 1995-96; Development Committee, 2002-present.
Indiana Music Educators Association: Board of Directors, 1993-1995.
The College Music Society - Member of the Committee on the Status of Minorities in the
Profession, 1989-92.
The American Music Society
Association of African American Museums
Field Research
“Black American Music in the Netherlands” conducted in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Zwolle, Rotterdam,
Hengelo, Soest, Oranjelaan, Papendrecht. Spring/Summer 1998 and Summer 1999, Spring
2001 (two weeks)
“Dayton Street Funk” conducted in Dayton, Ohio, Summer 1997
The Music Industry” conducted in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles,
Houston, New Orleans, and Orlando in the music industry. 1982-83 and 1984-85.
"The Relationship Between West African and U.S. Black Music;" "West African Club Music (Ju
Ju)" conducted in Nigeria and Ghana, West Africa, Summer 1977.
Publications:
Books
Co-editor [with Mellonee Burnim]. African American Music: An Introduction. New York:
Routledge Press (2005).
Sub-editor [with contributions by Mellonee Burnim], African-American section (12 articles).
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, United States and Canada, Vol. 3. Vol. General Editor.
Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 571-715.
Articles/Monographs/Book Chapters
[with Isaac Kalumbu] “Popular Music Studies: African-American Studies” in Continuum
Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol 1. Media, Industry and Society. Eds. John
Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, and Peter Wicke (New York: Continuum, 2003),
47-54.
“Has Gospel Music Become Pop Music, or What Shall We Call Take 6?” in Views on Black
American Music: Such Sweet Thunder (Proceedings from conferences on Black music held at the
University of Massachusetts 1989-1999). Ed. Mark Baszak (The Fine Arts Center: University of
Massachusetts Amerst, 2003), 26-31.
"The Search for African-American Musical Resources in the United States" in The Harvard Guide
to African-American History. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor-in-chief; Darlene Clark Hine,
and Leon Litwack, general editors (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2001), 139-166.
“Funk Music: An Expression of Black Life in Dayton, Ohio and the American Metropolis” in The
American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration. Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, and Tity De Vries,
eds. (Amsterdam: Vu University Press, 2001), 198-213.
[with Mellonee Burnim]. "Overview: [Intellectual History of African American Music]" in The
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 3. United States and Canada Music. General Ed. Ellen
Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 572-591.
“Rhythm & Blues and Soul" in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.” Vol. 3 United States
and Canada Music. General Ed. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 667-679.
Reprinted in Ellen Koskoff, ed. Musical Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. (New York:
Routledge, 2005), 228-239.
"Funk" in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.” Vol. 3. United States and Canada. General
Ed. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 680-686. Reprinted in Ellen Koskoff, ed.
Musical Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. (New York: Routledge, 2005), 75-81.
“African-American Music” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Rev. ed. Vol 2
(London: Macmillian Publishers 2000), 109-114.
"Music in African-American Culture" in African-Americans and the Media: Contemporary Issues.
Venice Berry and Carmen Manning-Miller, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, Inc., 1996), 241-
262.
"Intra- and International Identities in American Popular Music" in Trading Culture: GATT,
European Cultural Policies and the Transatlantic Market. Annemoon van Hemel, Hans Mommaas,
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and Cas Smithuijsen, eds. (Amsterdam: Boekman Foundation, 1996), 148-156.
"Music", The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Vol. 4. Jack Salzman, David
Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996), 1888-
1907.
"The Evolution of African American Music" (a chart that illustrates the evolution of African
American music from its African origins to present) c1988 and revised 1990 and 1995 in: African
American Review (literary journal -- special issue on music) Vol. 29 No. 2, (summer 1995), p. 183-
84; included as part the permanent exhibit "After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-
1800" in the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (1991) and as part of the
permanent exhibit, "From Victory to Freedom: Afro-American Life in the Fifties" in the National
Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH, (1989); published in Nieuwsbrief
IASPM-Benelux [Newsletter of the Dutch Branch of the International Association of Popular
Music] (October 1994); in music industry magazines, Urban Network (June 14, 1994), Hits (June
22, 1992; June 21, 1993; June 27, 1994), Ebony Man (July 1991), p.42-43, and in program booklet
for the 1st International Conference on Rock 'n' Rap sponsored by University of Missouri School of
Journalism (February, 1993).
"Ethnicity and African American Popular Music," Bulgarian Musicology XVIII No. 1 (1994), 50-
58.
"Music in the African American Church" in Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Larry G.
Murphy, J. Gordon Melton and Gary L. Ward, eds. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993),
520-26. Revised version of "Jahrbuch fur Liturgik..." (1983).
"The Influence of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry" in We'll Understand It Better By
and By: African American Pioneering Gospel Composers. Bernice Johnson Reagon, ed.
(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 19-33. Reprinted in Signifyin’(g),
Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture. Gena Dagel
Caponi ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, 172-190.
"Africanisms in African American Music" in Africanisms in Afro-American Culture. Joseph
Holloway, ed. (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 185-210. Reprinted in
Jacob U. Gordon, ed. The African Presence in Black America (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press,
2004), p. 39-83; Delores P. Aleridge and Carlene Young ed., Out of the Revolution: The
Development of Africana Studies (New York: Lexington Books, 2000), 379-405; Floyd W. Hayes,
ed. A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African-American Studies. (Del Mar, CA: Collegiate Press,
1992), 269-290; and Jacob U. Gordon, ed. The African Presence in Black America (Trenton, N.J.:
Africa World Press, 2004), p. 39-83.
"Black Music Scholarship and the Approaching New Century," Black Music Research Bulletin
(Spring 1989), 10-11.
[with Mellonee Burnim] "From Backwoods to City Streets: The Afro-American Musical Journey,"
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in Expressively Black. Geneva Gay and Willie Baber, eds. (New York: Praeger Press, 1987),
109-136.
Rhythm & Blues (1945-1955): A Survey of Styles," Black American Popular Music (monograph).
Niani Kilkenny and Robert Selim, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Program in Black American
Culture--Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,1986), 6-19, 22-23. This
monograph provided content for a radio program, "Rhythm & Blues: Straight From the Heart,"
produced by David Rector for National Public Radio's Horizons Series.
"West African Influences and Retentions in U.S. Black Music: A Socio-Cultural Study," in More
than Dancing. Ed. Irene Jackson-Brown (New York: Greenwood Press, 1985), 25-55. A revised
version of "Influences and Retentions of West African Musical Concepts in U.S. Black Music"
published in 1979.
"The Role of Scholars in Creating Space and Validity for On- Going Changes in Black American
Culture," in Black American Culture and Scholarship: Contemporary Issues. (Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution, 1985), 9-23.
"Funktion und Darbietung von Kirchenliedern, Spirituals und Gospels in der Schwarzen Kirche,"
Jahrbuch fur Liturgik und Hymnologie Ubersetzet von Eva Janke; Herausgegeben von Konrad
Ameln, et. al, 27. Band 1983 (Germany: Gesamtherstel-lung Barenreiter Kassel, 1984), pp.
192-207. Reprinted in English, "The Use and Performance of Hymnody, Spirituals and Gospels in
the Black Church," The Western Journal of Black Studies, VII Fall 1983), pp. 161-171; The Journal
of the Interdenominational Theological Center XIV (Fall l986/Spring l987), pp. l4l-l59; and
Readings in African American Church Music and Worship James Abbington ed. (Chicago: GIA
Publications, Inc., 2001), 77-98. Revised version published in The Hymnology Annual: An
International Forum on the Hymn and Worship II (Spring 1992), 11-26.
"Soul Music: Its Sociological and Political Significance in American Popular Culture," Journal of
Popular Culture, XVII (Fall 1983), pp. 51-60. Reprinted in The Age of Rock. Ed. Timothy E.
Scheurer (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989), 168-178.
"The Origin of Black Spirituals: A Summary and Analysis of Theories," Internationale
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Hymnologie, Bulletin, II (Mei 1983), 118-124.
"Influences of the Roberta Martin Era on Popular Styles of Black Music," in Roberta Martin and the
Roberta Martin Singers: The Legacy and the Music. Bernice Johnson Reagon and Linn Shapiro,
eds. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1982), 42-45.
"Africanisms Retained in the Spiritual Tradition," in Report of The Twelfth Congress-International
Musicological Society (Germany: Barenreite, 1981), 75-8.
Afro-American Religious Music: A Study in Musical Diversity. Papers of the Hymn Society of
America, No. XXXV (Springfield, Ohio: The Hymn Society of America, 1981). Monograph.
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"Contemporary Pop: A Healthy Diversity Evolves from Creative Freedom," Billboard International
Music Magazine: Special Issue on Black Music (June 9, 1979), BM10, 22, 28.
"Influences and Retentions of West African Musical Concepts in U.S. Black Music," The Western
Journal of Black Studies, III (Fall 1979), 197-215.
"Black Spirituals: An Analysis of Textual Forms," The Black Perspective in Music, IV (Spring
1976), 54-69.
"Music of Northern Independent Black Churches During the Ante-Bellum Period,"
Ethnomusicology, XIX (September 1975), 421-449.
"Selective Bibliography: U.S. Black Music," Ethnomusicology, XIX (September 1975), 421-449.
Other Research Publications
Contributed to the bibliography on African-American music included in Popular Music Studies: A
Select International Bibliography. Compiled and edited by John Shepherd, David Horn, et.al.
London: Cassell Academic, 1997.
"Breaking Down Barriers: The Evolution of the Black Music Industry" featured essay in Gallery of
Greats (Black History Month Calendar) Milwaukee: Miller Brewing Company, 1994.
"The Crisis Interview [with Portia Maultsby on Black Music]" Crisis (February 1991) pp. 38-41.
Teaching-Related Publications
“A Conversation with Portia Maultsby,” Folklore Forum 34:1/2, (2003). Special Issue on Applied
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Instructional Website on Hip-Hop Music and Culture. Indiana University, 2001. Restricted to
students enrolled in the class through Indiana University.
"The African American Blues Tradition" (curriculum guide) in The University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, The Southeast Institute for Education in the Arts : 1993 Renewal Institute.
Chattanooga: University of Tennessee, 1993), 1-47.
"African American Music: African Origins" in The Blues Project 1993 (Largo, MD: Humanities
Resource Center, Prince George's Community College, 1993), 9-11. Reprinted in Maryland
Humanities (February 1994), 6-8 and in The Engaging Reader. 3rd ed. Anne Mills King ed.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.
"The Evolution of African American Music: Part I" in News (January 1993), 6-7; Part II (July
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1993), 6-7; Part III (January 1994, p. 5,8); Part IV (October 1994, p. 1,7); Part V (January 1995, p.
2-3); Part VI (July 1995), p. 2-3; Part VII (October 1996), 4,7. Newsletter published by the Rhythm
& Blues Foundation housed in Smithsonian Institution.
"Toward a Multicultural Music Education Curriculum" in Toward the End of the Century: Cross-
Cultural and Minority Perspectives. Nohema Fernandez, ed. (Missoula, MT: College Music
Society, 1992), p. 67-72. Reprinted in Indiana Musicator [organ of the Indiana Music Educators
Association] (May 1993), 24-28. Revised version of a paper delivered as the keynote address at the
Florida Music Educators Association 43rd annual Clinic-Conference, January 1987.
"Black Music in America," course syllabus in Ethnic Studies. Gary T. Okihiro, ed. (New York:
Markus Winer Publishing, 1989), 178-82.
Works in Progress
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black Popular Music, 1945-1999
[with Lutgard Mutsaers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands]. Black American Music in the
Netherlands
Instructional Websites Completed
Hip-Hop Music and Culture
Instructional Websites in Progress (Under Revision)
Survey of African-American Music
African-American Popular Music
Published Reviews
Book Review, Folk Music and Modern Sound. William Ferris and Mary Hart, eds. (Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, in International Council for Traditional Music, (Spring 1985), pp.
213-16.
Record Review, Jubilee to Gospel: A Selection of Commercially Recorded Black Religious Music,
1921-1953. Selected and annotated by William H. Tallmadge, with Biographical notes and related
discography compiled by Doug Sernoff, in Ethnomusicology, XXVII (January 1983), pp. 162-164.
Book Review, (two hymnals), Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Collection of Afro-American
Spirituals and Other Songs (New York: The Church Hymnal Corporation, 1981); Songs of Zion:
Supplemental Worship Resources 12 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981); in The Hymn, XXXIII (July
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