Dr Byron Dueck

Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. He studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in 2005. His doctoral research focused on public performances of First Nations and Métis music and dance in the western Canadian city of Winnipeg. His earlier musical studies, in piano performance, were undertaken at the University of Minnesota (MMus 1998) and Wilfrid Laurier University (BMus 1994).

Research Interests

His research interests include indigenous music and dance in Canada; musical intimacies and publics; rhythm, meter, motion, and collective experience; musical representations of multiculturalism; public festivity and national imaginaries; and metapragmatic approaches to music.

From 2005 to 2007 Dr Dueck was Coordinator of Musicology at Columbia College Chicago, where he taught and coordinated courses in musicology and ethnomusicology.

Dr Dueck is a member of the Open University’s Experience and Meaning in Music Performance research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His current work on indigenous music and dance in western Canada focuses on connections between rhythm, meter, musical intimacy, and public culture. He is particularly interested in examining the roles that collective musical and somatic experience plays in constituting publics.

Publications

‘Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Métis Fiddling’. Ethnomusicology 51/1 (2007), pp. 30-63. ISSN 0014-1836.

‘“Suddenly a Sense of Being a Community”: Aboriginal Square Dancing and the Experience of Collectivity’. Musiké 1 (Music and Ritual, 2006). ISSN 1824-7199.

Forthcoming

Review of The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980 , by Gillian Mitchell. Twentieth-century music, forthcoming. ISSN: 1478-5722.

Dr Byron Dueck
Department of Music
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

e-mail: b.dueck@open.ac.uk