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Carl Rahkonen, Ph.D Music Librarian / Professor Email: Rahkonen@iup.edu Phone: 724-357-5644 Address: The Harold S. Orendorff Music Library Indiana University of Pennsylvania Cogswell Hall, 101C, 422 S. 11th St. Indiana, PA 15705-1071 |
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Carl Rahkonen received his Ph.D. degree in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, Bloomington, and is a Music Librarian and Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Library Faculty and is responsible for reference, collection development and cataloging for the Orendorff Music Library at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He serves as bibliographer for the Music and Art Departments. He has taught courses in Music Bibliography, Information Literacy in World Music, and Ethnic Music and Culture. Additional professional interests include Copyright issues in the digital age. He is active in the Music Library Association, and its Atlantic Chapter, as well as the Niagara and Mid-Atlantic Chapters chapters of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society. His research interests include Finnish, Scandinavian, Baltic, Russian and Celtic folk music; folk instruments, especially the Finnish kantele; polka bands and fiddling, especially in Western Pennsylvania; and the history of ethnomusicology, especially its women pioneers. For a more detailed description of his academic activities, see his professional vitae. He enjoys playing fiddle, mandolin
or string bass with
local
musicians,
with
Finnish-American musicians, with the Irish band
Aran, the old-time band
Keystone Rebels, and
other musician friends. He was an
ArtsPath
artist from 2001-05 in fiddling for Western Pennsylvania. He played
his first
viola recital in 32 years on January 18, 2008 and a
Beethoven
Recital on January 16, 2009. For more information see: Web-site created and maintained by Carl
Rahkonen. ©
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Music Library
Old Music Library site
Main Library
Music Dept.
Vitae
Music Bib. at IUP
Music Sites
Viola Jokes
Carl's paper on viola jokes
Active Union Member