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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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I work as a Music Librarian and Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as a member of the Library Faculty. I am responsible for reference, collection development and cataloging for the Orendorff Music Library and serve as bibliographer for the Music and Art Departments. I have 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. I am 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. My 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 my academic activities, see my professional vitae. I
enjoy playing fiddle, mandolin
or string bass with
local
musicians,
with
Finnish-American musicians, with the Irish band
Aran, the Pennsylvania old-time band
Keystone Rebels, and
other musician friends. I was an
ArtsPath
artist from 2001-05 in fiddling for Western Pennsylvania. I played my first
viola recital
in 32 years on January 18, 2008, a
Beethoven
Recital on January 16, 2009, a
Rebecca Clarke recital on March 19, 2010, a
Schumann Recital on April 19, 2011 and a
Finnish Recital on February 23, 2012. 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
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