VITAE (Revised: May 1, 2008)
CARL JOHN RAHKONEN
Music Librarian and Professor
The Harold S. Orendorff Music Library
Cogswell Hall, Room 101
Indiana University of Pa.
422 S. 11th Street
Indiana, PA 15705-1071
(work) (724) 357-5644
Rahkonen@iup.edu
660 Diamond Ave.
Indiana, PA 15701
(home) (724) 357-8125
Carl_Rahkonen@yahoo.com
http://www.people.iup.edu/rahkonenEducation:
Ph.D. (1989) in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Indiana University, Bloomington, Folklore Institute. Minors: Musicology, Finnish Studies. Dissertation title: "The Kantele Traditions of Finland." 449 pp.
M.L.S. (1981) with a specialization in Music Librarianship. Indiana University, Bloomington. Final Project title: "The Collection Development Policy Among Music Libraries in the United States." 124 pp.
M.M. (1978) in Musicology. University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Thesis title: "A Review of the Literature in Music Therapy to 1977." 75 pp.
B.A. (1976) in Music and Psychology. Weber State College, Ogden, Utah.
Professional Library Experience:
Music Librarian: Cogswell Music Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania. (August 1987- ). Responsibilities include collection development, cataloging, reference and supervision of one full-time Library Technician and three FTE of student assistants; and service on numerous library committees.
Professional Teaching Experience:
Professor (1999- ); Associate Professor (1992-99); Assistant Professor (1987-1992) Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Courses taught:
MUSC681: "Information Literacy in World Music"
MU600 "Bibliography of Music"
MU632 "Research Techniques in Music"
Liberal Studies Senior Synthesis Course: LS499 "Ethnic Music and Culture"
MU481/AN481: "Introduction to Ethnomusicology."
Research and Grant Activity:
IUP University Senate Research Committee Grant to study the Robert Andresen Collection (Scandinavian musicians of the upper Midwest) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 23-29, 2006.
IUP Sabbatical (Summers 2001-02). To study fiddle playing, especially in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.IUP University Senate Fellowship Grant Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography. Completed 22 days of research at the Library of Congress during FY 96-97, inventorying and studying the papers of this Russian-American composer.
IUP University Senate Research Committee Travel Grants to present papers in Berlin, Germany (1993), Vilnius, Lithuania (1994), and Kaustinen, Finland (1997).
ASLA-Fulbright Grant (1983) for dissertation research in Finland.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Music bibliography; History and theory of ethnomusicology (especially the women pioneers), Ethnic musical instruments (especially the kantele); Finnish, Baltic and Russian music cultures; polka bands; fiddling, especially Scandinavian, Celtic and Old Time fiddle in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Publications (Articles and Books):
"Scandinavian Fiddling Genres." Fiddle Sessions [Mel Bay's fiddle webzine] Submitted January 31, 2008.Co-author: "Music Librarianship." In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York: Taylor & Francis. Forthcoming. with Holly Gardinier and Sarah Canino. Submitted January 18, 2008.
Section of article: "The College Librarian at IUP." In "Information Literacy for Branch Campuses and Branch Libraries." Library Philosophy and Practice 2007. (ISSN 1522-0222), with James Hooks, et. al. http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/hooks.pdf
“How to Begin Fiddling Scandinavian Style.” Fiddle Sessions [Mel Bay's fiddle webzine] (June 2006) at: http://www.fiddlesessions.com/jun06/scandinavian.html
Book chapter (lead author): "European American Musical Cultures." In Music Cultures in the United States; An Introduction. ed. Ellen Koskoff. New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 161-184.
"An Essential Resource of American Folk Music: The Samuel Bayard Collection at the Pennsylvania State University" Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Journal 35, No. 1 (2004): 1-5.
"Scandinavian Fiddling for String Teachers." American String Teacher's Association (ASTA) Journal 54, No. 2 (May 2004): 66-71.
“Baltic Countries.” In The Harvard Dictionary of Music 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. p. 82.
"Vladimir Ussachevsky." In The Twentieth Century Music Avant Garde. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. pp. 525-29.
Book Chapter: “World and Ethnic Music.” In Creative Strategies for Library Instruction in the Arts, Literature and Music, ed. Marilyn P. Whitmore. Pittsburgh, PA: Library Instruction Publications, 2001, pp 275-288.
"Estonian-American Music." In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: United States and Canada. New York: Garland, 2001, pp. 878-81, with Ain Haas.
"French-American Music." In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: United States and Canada New York: Garland, 2001, pp. 854-59.
"European-American Music: Introduction and Overview." In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: United States and Canada, New York: Garland, 2001, pp. 820-30.
Revised the "Vladimir Ussachevsky" article for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 2001.
Wrote new articles on "Kantele," and "Gusli," for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 2001.
“No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke Cycle as Musician’s Folklore.” Western Folklore 59 (Winter 2000): 49-63.
Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, with Ralph Hartsock.
"World Music in the Music Library." College Music Society Newsletter (October 1999): 6.
"The Kantele as Musical Instrument, Myth and Symbol." Aristeia: Myth Journal of IUP (Spring 1999): 54-64.
"Special Bibliography: Natalie Curtis (1875-1921)." Ethnomusicology 42 (Fall 1998): 511-21.
Compiler and Editor: World Music in Music Libraries. Technical Report No. 24. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, December 1994.
"What is World Music?" In World Music in Music Libraries, pp. 1-10. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, December 1994.
"Mitä on maailmanmusiikki?" [Translation of "What is World Music?"] Uusi Kansanmusiikki (No. 1, 1994): 23-5.
"Communication Among Music Faculty, Department Chairs and Deans in American Higher Education." March 1994. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 366 268). with J. Richard McFerron et. al.
"Folklorists at Work: True Confessions of a Music Librarian." Update [Newsletter of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington] (November 1992): 3-4.
Compiler and Editor: Directory of Music Collections in the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Music Library Association. with Teri McFerron. [Indiana, PA: PaMLA], October 1992.
"E-Mail and Music Librarians." Notations: PaMLA Newsletter (Fall 1991/Spring 1992).
"Floor Loading Problems and Possible Solutions." In Space Utilization in Music Libraries, pp 101-7. Edited by James P. Cassaro. Technical Report No. 20. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1991.
"Frank J. Gillis Bibliography." In Discourse in Ethnomusicology III: A Tribute to Frank J. Gillis. Bloomington, IN: Ethnomusicology Publications Group, 1990.
Filmographies in each issue of Ethnomusicology (Three per year) 1984-1989.
"Databases and Networks for Archives of Traditional Music: Some Future Possibilities." Notations: PaMLA Newsletter (Spring 1988).
Translation from Finnish to English: Heikki Laitinen and Hannu Saha, A Guide to Five-String Kantele Playing. Kaustinen, Finland: Folk Music Institute, 1988.
Record cover notes: Hannu Syrjälahti, A Kantele Escapade, Helsinki, Finland: Bluebird Records, 1987.
"Suomalaisen kanteleen rakenteeseen vaikuttavat asiat." [Matters influencing the structure of the kantele] Kantele (No. 4, 1985).
"[Report of] The Study Group on Computer Retrieval." Bulletin of the ICTM (October 1985).
"The Comparative Method in Ethnomusicological Research." In Trends and Perspectives in Musicology. Proceedings of the World Music Conference of the International Music Council, October 3-5, 1983. [Stockholm]: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, No. 48, 1985.
"Syntyperäinen muukalainen Suomessa."[On Being an Inside-Outsider in Finland] Musiikin suunta [Finnish Ethnomusicological Society Journal] (No. 4-5, 1985).
"Folklore and Ethnomusicology in Contemporary Finland." Folklore Forum (No. 1, 1985).
"In Memoriam: Walter Kaufmann (1907-1984)." Ethnomusicology 29 (Winter 1985): 88-89.
"From the Vault: The Finnish Collections at the Archives of Traditional Music." Resound 3 (July 1984).
"The Concept of Ultrastability and its Application to a Study of the Finnish Kantele." Suomen antropologi = Antropologi i Finland [Finnish Anthropological Society Journal]. Special issue on Ethnomusicology (December 1983).
"Selected Films in Ethnomusicology 1955-1980: Europe." Ethnomusicology 27 (January 1983): 111-19.
"Alan P. Merriam: Bibliography and Discography." Ethnomusicology 26 (January 1982): 107-20. with Caroline Card.
"The Works of Alan P. Merriam." In Discourse in Ethnomusicology II: A Tribute to Alan P. Merriam. Bloomington, Indiana: Ethnomusicology Publications Group, 1981. with Caroline Card.
Co-editor of Discourse in Ethnomusicology II A Tribute to Alan P. Merriam. Bloomington, Indiana: Ethnomusicology Publications Group, 1981. with Caroline Card, Jane Cowan, Sally Carr Helton and Laurie Kay Sommers.
Publications (Reviews):
Book Review: Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music. By James P. Leary. Journal of American Folklore. Submitted May 1, 2008.
Book Review: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care). By Ross W. Duffin. Notes (Journal of the Music Library Association) 64 (March 2008): 487-89.
Book Review: After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music. By Tim Howell. Notes 64 (December 2007): 306-7.
Book Review: The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora. By Dale A. Olsen. Notes 62 (June 2006): 987-89.
Book Review: Ilmatar’s Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music. By Tina K. Ramnarine. Yearbook for Traditional Music 37 (2005): 167-9.
Book Review: Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine. By Drew Beisswenger. Ethnomusicology 49 (Winter 2005): 176-78.
Book Review: Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium. By Frederick Key Smith. Notes 60 (March 2004): 670-71.
Book review: Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. By Jeff Todd Titon. Notes 60 (September 2003): 138-40.
Books reviewed: Edvard Grieg: Letters to Colleagues and Friends. Edvard Grieg: Diaries, Articles, Speeches. Edited and translated by Finn Benestad and William H. Halverson. Notes 59 (September 2002): 88-90.
Books reviewed: John Lilly, ed. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal and Gerald Milnes. Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Ethnomusicology 46 (Winter 2002): 171-74.
Book review: John F. Link. Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research. Notes 58 (December 2001): 344-45.
Book review: Rainer E. Lotz, et. al. Discographie der ethnischen Aufnahmen, band 1. Notes 57 (September 2000): 116-17.
Book review: Jack A. Batterson. Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer. Arkansas Review 31, no. 1 (April 2000): 78-79.
Book Review: Natalie Kononenko. Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing. Ethnomusicology 44 (Spring/Summer 2000): 339-41.
Book Review: Chris Goertzen, Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity. Yearbook for Traditional Music 31 (1999): 170.
CD Review: Vidar Lande. Norway: Fiddle and Hardanger Fiddle Music from Agder. UNESCO Auvidis D 8063.Yearbook for Traditional Music 31 (1999): 212.
Books Reviewed: Herbert Lindenberger, Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage; Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin, eds. The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference. Studies in the Humanities. [submitted March 18, 1999]
Book Review: Judith Vander, Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion. Mid-America Folklore [submitted Jan. 14, 1998]
Records Reviewed: [7 Finnish folk music CDs]. The Worlds of Music 38 (No. 2, 1996): 94-7.
Record Review: Old Believers: Songs of the Nekrasov Cossacks. Yearbook for Traditional Music 28 (1996): 223-4.
Book Review: Charles Keil and Steven Feld, Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues. Notes 52 (March 1996): 829-30.
Books Reviewed: James E. Perone, Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography. William T. Doering, Elliott Carter: A Bio-Bibliography. Richard D. Burbank, Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Biblio-graphy. (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, Nos. 47, 51 and 49). Notes 51 (September 1995): 112-3
Records reviewed: Lauluja lännen kultalasta: Finnish-American Recordings 1907-1938. KICD 25 and Aarnion Sisarukset: The Aarnio Family Band. KICD 28, Folk Music Institute, Kaustinen. Ethnomusicology 39 (Spring/Summer 1995): 338-40.
Books Reviewed: Helen Myers, ed. Ethnomusicology: Vol. I: An Introduction and Vol. II: Historical and Regional Studies. Notes 50 (June 1994): 1435-7.
Books Reviewed: Victor Greene, A Passion for Polka and Charles Keil et. al. Polka Happiness. Notes 50 (March 1994): 993-4.
Book Review: Pirkko Moisala, ed. Kansanmusiikkin tutkimus. Notes 50 (December 1993): 626-28.
Book Review: Kenner C. Kartchner, Larry V. Shumway, ed. Frontier Fiddler. Ethnomusicology 37 (Fall 1993): 433-34.
Book Review: Vesa Kurkela, Musiikkifolklorismi & Järjestökulttuuri [Music Folklorism and Organization Culture]. The World of Music 34 (No. 3, 1992): 146-48.
Book Review: Ralph Hartsock, Otto Luening: A Bio-Bibliography.Fontes Artis Musicae 39 (July-December 1992): 385.
Books Reviewed: Philip V. Bohlman et. al. eds. Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. and Bruno Nettl et. al. eds. Comparative Musicology and the Anthropology of Music. Notes 48 (September 1992): 77-80.
Book Review: Juha Y. Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology. Journal of American Folklore 105 (1992): 505-507.
Book Review: Richard K. Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records.Notes 48 (June 1992): 1311-12.
Book Review: Walter Kaufmann, Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures. Notes 47 (March 1991): 127-28.
Books Reviewed: Yoshimasa Kurabayashi and Yoshiro Matsuda, Economic and Social Aspects of the Performing Arts in Japan. and Richard Curt Kraus, Pianos and Politics in China. Notes 47 (June 1991): 1169-70.
Books Reviewed: Herbert Heyde, Historische Musikinstrumente der Staatlichen Reka-Sammlung am Bezirksmuseum Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Malou Haine, Les instruments de musique dans les collections belges. Fontes Artis Musicae 38 (No. 2, 1991): 151-52.
Book Review: Lisa de Gorog, From Sibelius to Sallinen Ethnomusicology 35 (No. 1, Winter 1991): 119-21.
Book Review: Michael Hicks, Mormonism and Music. Notes 47 (December 1990): 401-2.
Film Review: Ethnomusicology of the Low Caste Groups of Two Cities of North India. Ethnomusicology 33 (No. 3, Fall 1989): 559-61.
Book Review: David Dalton, Playing the Viola. Notes 46 (September 1989): 83-3.
Book Review: John Blacking, A Commonsense View of All the World's Music. Notes 45 (March 1989): 511-12
Film Review: At Laskiainen in Palo, Everyone is a Finn. Folklore Forum (No. 2, 1985).
Book review: R. Gerald Alvey, Dulcimer Maker. Folklore Forum (No. 2, 1985).
Records reviewed: Anneli Asplund, Kantele (Finnish Literature Society, SKSLP 3) and Heikki Laitinen, Viljo Karvonen: Kantele (Finnish Folk Music Institute, KILP 10). Ethnomusicology 29 (Spring/Summer 1985): 358-60
Film Review: Tough, Pretty or Smart: A Portrait of the Patoka Valley Boys. Ethnomusicology 26 (May 1982): 349.
Presentations / Meeting Organization:
“Vladimir Ussachevsky and the Advent of Electronic Music, or How I Discovered the ‘Smoking Gun’.” Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States SEAMUS. University of Utah, Salt Lake City. April 3, 2008.
“Pennsylvania Fiddling: A View from the Middle.” Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology. York University, Toronto, Canada. March 29, 2008.
“Pennsylvania Fiddle Tunes by Sarah Armstrong.” Eighth Festival of Women Composers, IUP. March 27, 2008, with Cornsilk.
Co-organizer of Atlantic Chapter MLA meeting at IUP on the "Future of Librarianship" (with Teri McFerron). October 5-6, 2007.
"The Evolution of the Finnish Kantele" and "Finnish Fiddling Through the Ages" FinnFest USA 2007, Ashtabula, Ohio. July 27 and 28, 2007.
Co-organizer of Niagara Chapter SEM and Allegheny Chapter AMS meeting at IUP (with Matt Baumer). Keynote speaker: Bruno Nettl. March 30-31, 2007.
"American Women Composers of Sheet Music: More than you Might Expect." Music Library Association national meeting, Sheet Music Roundtable, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2, 2007, with Kathleen Haefliger.
"The Legal Implications of 'Legacy Collections'." Music Library Association national meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1, 2007.
"Ancient Finnish Rune Singing and the Kalevala." FinnFest USA 2006, Naselle, Washington. July 28, 2006.
"Scandinavian Fiddling in the United States: A Preliminary Overview." Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology, SUNY Geneseo, New York, April 8, 2006.
“American Fiddle Music Research: The Contributions of Samuel P. Bayard.” Society for Ethnomusicology national meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18, 2005.
"Pennsylvania Fiddling Styles" invited by the Huntingdon County Arts Council, held at Greenwood Furnace State Park, May 29, 2005, with music by the"Keystone Rebels", with Todd Clewell, Mark Tamsula and Henry Koretzky.
"Copyright Issues in the Digital Era." C-CUE (Consortium for Computing in Undergraduate Education). Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA. April 22, 2005.
"Almost Heaven: The West Virginia Traditional Music Scene." Atlantic Chapter, Music Library Association, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. October 22, 2004.
"Finland: An Introduction [to the Baltic Psalteries]" [Fifth International] Baltic Psaltery Symposium, Special meeting in conjunction with the 19th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Toronto, CA. June 5, 2004.
"Copyright for Librarians." Cambria, Somerset and Indiana Counties District Librarians Meeting, Johnstown, PA, March 25, 2004.
"Women Composers of Sheet Music in the Cogswell Music Library." Seventh Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of PA, March 18, 2004.
"Amateur and Professional: A Tale of Two "Irish" Bands from Western Pennsylvania." Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology, Fredonia, New York, March 13, 2004.
"Traditional Music of Western Pennsylvania: The Samuel Bayard Collection at the Pennsylvania State University." Atlantic Chapter, Music Library Association, State College, Pa. October 17, 2003.
"Basic Copyright: Issues for Libraries." Southwest Chapter, Pennsylvania Library Association. Westmoreland County Community College, May 16, 2003.
Scandinavian Fiddling Workshop. American String Teacher National Conference. Columbus, Ohio. March 29, 2003.
"The Real Song Catchers: American Women Pioneers of Ethnomusicology." Music Library Association, Women's Music Round Table. Austin, Texas, February 14, 2003.
"The Folk Music Research of Samuel P. Bayard." American Folklore Society, Rochester, NY. October 19, 2002."Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About the Kantele." FinnFest USA 2001, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, July 27, 2001.
“Additional Women Pioneers of Ethnomusicology.” Sixth Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of PA, March 23, 2001, and at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1, 2001.
"Vaarin Viulu [Grandpa's Fiddle]: Folk Music from Southeastern Finland." FinnGrandFest 2000, Toronto, Ontario, July 15, 2000 ; Finger Lakes Finns, Newfield, NY. April 17, 2005.
"Fiddlin' Joe Yesolivich: An Archetypal American Fiddler." Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology, Washington, D.C. April 10, 1999. Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology, Fredonia, New York, April 15, 2000.
"The Kantele of the Kalevala." FinnFest USA '99. Seattle, Washington, July 24, 1999.
"Copyright, Traditional Music and the Internet." Preconference Symposium on Ethnographic Futures: Issues in Documentation, Preservation and Fieldwork, Society for Ethnomusicology, Bloomington, Indiana (October 21, 1998).
"Vladimir Ussachevsky and the Advent of Electronic Music." Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society, IUP (April 25, 1998).
"Natalie Curtis: Composer and Musical Folklorist." Fifth Festival of Women Composers, IUP (March 18, 1998).
"The Kantele and Shamanism Reconsidered." The Third International Baltic Psltery Conference, Kaustinen, Finland (November 15, 1997). Funded in part by a grant from the IUP University Senate Research Committee. Published in the Conference Proceedings.
Local Arrangements Chair for the Society for Ethnomusicology national meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-26, 1997."New Orleans Rhythm and Blues: A View from the Literature." The Sidney Bechet World Music Symposium, IUP (March 21, 1997).
Co-Chair for organizing The Sidney Bechet World Music Symposium, IUP (March 21, 1997), with Dr. Lorraine Wilson.
"What Ever Happened to Electronic Music: A View from Vladimir Ussachevsky." Music Library Association, New Orleans, La. (February 1, 1997).
"Natalie Curtis-Burlin: A Reappraisal of Her Contributions to Ethnomusicology." Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto, Ontario (October 31, 1996).
Invited lecture: "The Carved Kanteles of the Baltic Sea Region." at the opening of a kantele exhibit at the Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (June 1, 1996).
Expert examiner for the Doctoral Dissertation Kansanmusiikin tyyli ja muuntelu [Folk Music Style and Variation] defended by Hannu Saha, Tampere University, Finland (May 25, 1996).
"The Women Pioneers of Ethnomusicology." Fourth Festival of Women Composers, IUP (March 20, 1996).
Invited lecture: "The Kantele Traditions of Finland." Finlandia Foundation Seattle Chapter, Seattle, Wa. (August 20, 1995).
Contributor to paper given by Dr. Ain Haas, IUPUI, "Estonian Kannel Players of North America: Preservation and Creation of Traditions." Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Montréal (June 3, 1995).
"The Estonian Kannel in Baltimore." The Second International Symposium of Kankles Researchers, Kankles of the Baltic Sea Nations. Vilnius, Lithuania (November 16, 1994). Funded in part by a grant from the IUP University Senate Research Committee.
"No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke as Musician's Folklore." Joint Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 22, 1994).
Organizer of Forum: "Polka Research." Joint Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 21, 1994).
Invited lecture: "Kantele Traditions in Finland." Midwest Finnfest '94, Dekalb, Illinois (July 30, 1994).
"The Boundaries Between Journalism and Research: The Tango Finlandia as a Case Study." Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, Pa. (April 9, 1994).
Invited Lecture: "The Kantele of the Kalevala." Finlandia Foundation National Capitol Chapter, Kalevala Day Celebration, Washington, D.C. (February 26, 1994).
Organizer of a meeting on "Preservation Problems and Practical Solutions." Pennsylvania Chapter, Music Library Association. Messiah College, Grantham, Pa. (October 8, 1993).
"Pan-Ethnic Polkas in Pennsylvania." 32nd World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Berlin, Germany (June 18, 1993). Funded in part by a grant from the IUP University Senate Research Committee.
Invited lecture: "The Kantele Traditions of Finland." Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (April 5, 1993).
Invited lecture: "The Development of Art Music in the United States." Monday Music Club of Indiana, Pa. (February 22, 1993).
"International Influences on Finnish Popular Music." Niagara Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (March 27, 1993).
"Survey Research as a Fieldwork Method." National Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Seattle, Wa. (October 23, 1992).
Host and Organizer of a meeting on "Bibliographic Instruction Revisited." Pennsylvania Chapter, Music Library Association. IUP (October 9, 1992).
"The Development of the Modern Forms of the Kantele." Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Musicology Session II, Toronto, Canada (June 13, 1992).
Invited chair: Musicology session I. Association for Advancement of Baltic Studies, Toronto, Canada (June 12, 1992).
"The Ethnomusicology of Musicology." Discussion leader. Joint meeting of the Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology and the Allegheny Chapter, American Musicological Society. IUP (April 1992).
Host and Organizer of a joint meeting of the Niagara Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology and the Allegheny Chapter, American Musicological Society, IUP (April 1992).
Organizer of plenary session: "World Music in the Music Library." National Meeting of the Music Library Association, Baltimore, Md. (February 1992).
"Shamanism and the Kantele." Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society, California, Pa. (October 26, 1991).
Invited chair: Panel on "Production and Consumption II." National Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Chicago, Illinois (October 13, 1991).
"The Development of Popular Music in Finland." Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Geneva College, Beaver Falls Pa. (October 27, 1990).
Invited lecture: "The Kantele and Nationality: Finnish Popular Culture Analyzed." First International Symposium on the Kantele, Tampere, Finland (April 17-19, 1990). Published in the Symposium Proceedings.
"Floor Loading Problems and Possible Solutions." Pre-Conference Symposium on "Space Utilization in the Music Library," Music Library Association, Tucson, Arizona (February 21, 1990). Published in the Music Library Association Technical Report 20.
"What to Do When Things go Awry: Creative Solutions to Renovation Problems." Pennsylvania Chapter, Music Library Association, panel on Building and Renovating Music Libraries, Pittsburgh, Pa. (October 20, 1989).
"On Being an Inside-Outsider in Finland." Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh, Pa. (October 15, 1988).
"The Kantele as Folklore and Symbol Among the Finns." 11th Conference on Baltic Studies: "War and Peace in the Baltic." Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Folklore Division, College Park, Maryland (June 10, 1988).
"The Influence of Function, Fashion, and Tradition on the Structure of the Finnish Kantele." 6th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada: "Folk Music of the Finno-Ugric Peoples." Windsor, Ontario, Canada (June 5, 1988).
Organizer of a workshop on "Filmmaking in Ethnomusicology." Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 1987).
Invited lecture: "Nykyaikaisia perintelisiä kantelesoittotyylejä Suomessa: Ulkomaalaisten näkökulmia." [Contemporary Traditional Kantele Playing Styles in Finland: An Outsider's Point of View] Kantele Playing Seminar at Kaustinen, Finland (November 23, 1985).
"The Traditional and Not So Traditional Kantele Playing Styles of Contemporary Finland." Twenty-eighth Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Helsinki, Finland (August 6, 1985).
Invited lecture: "Funktion, muodin ja perinteen vaikutuksia suomalaisteen kanteleen rakenteen." [The Influence of Function, Fashion and Tradition on the Structure of the Finnish Kantele] International Kantele Seminar, Sana ja Sävel Kalevala Festival, Kajaani, Finland (July 6, 1985).
Invited lecture: "The History of the Kantele, The Finnish National Instrument." The University of Alabama at Huntsville, Department of Music (May 10, 1985).
"On the Concept of Tradition in the 1980's." Midwest Chapter Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Shawnee Bluffs, (Bloomington) Indiana (April 7, 1984).
"The Comparative Method in Ethnomusicological Research." International Music Council of UNESCO Congress on New Trends and Perspectives in Musicology, Stockholm, Sweden, (October 4, 1983). Published in the Congress Report.
"Music as Communication: Some Observations from Ethnomusicology." Second International Congress on Musical Semeiotics, Jyväskylä, Finland (July 6, 1983).
"The Study of Music Perception: An Approach to the Individual." Society for Ethnomusicology, College Park, Maryland (November 1982).
"Consistency and Variation as a Method for the Analysis of Two Songs from Thailand." Midwest Chapter Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, DeKalb, Illinois (April 1982).
Organizer of a Panel on Transcription and Analysis. Midwest Chapter Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, DeKalb, Illinois, (April 1982).
Professional Society Activities:
Music Library Association: Atlantic Chapter, Chair (2003-04); Vice-Chair/Chair elect (2001-02); Membership Committee Chair (2000-01); National Membership Committee (1994-98); Pennsylvania Chapter Chair (1993-1995), Vice Chair (1991-1993), and Publications Chair (1987-1992).
Society for Ethnomusicology: Program Chair for the Niagara Chapter (2000-02) ; Local Arrangements Chair for the National meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-26, 1997 ; Nominated and elected to the governing Council of the Society (1990-93). Film Review Editor and Filmographer of the journal Ethnomusicology (1984-89).
International Council for Traditional Music. Secretary of the Study Group on Computer Retrieval (1985-87).
Allegheny Chapter, American Musicological Society.
Nominated to the Kalevalaseura [The Kalevala Society of Finland] for scholars who have "promoted knowledge of the Kalevala," the Finnish National Epic, on Kalevala Day, February 28, 1994. There were only 107 foreign members in 1994.
Nominated to the Board of Directors of FinnFest USA. July 2007.
Performing Groups:
Hither and Yon (popular/folk duo) (fiddle, mandolin).
Lads of Leith (Irish-American Band in Indiana, Pa.) (fiddle, mandolin, penny whistle, bodhran, and string bass).
Aran (Irish Band in Western Pa.) (fiddle, string bass).
And other groups.Language Proficiency:
Native speaker of English, fluent in Finnish, studied German, French and Russian.
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