University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

Faculty Member, New College

Other Affiliations: University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, School of Music

Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts

About

Education:

    Ph.D. - Wesleyan University (Ethnomusicology)

    M.A. - Wesleyan University (Ethnomusicology & Music Composition)

    B.A. - University of Minnesota (Anthropology, Music, Asian Studies)


Research Focus:

    Experimental art and culture in an interdisciplinary global context
    Jazz and improvisation
    Music composition
    1960s intermedia arts
    Music and technology
    Sound studies


Courses Taught:

FA200 Experiencing the Arts
NEW490-9 Writing Culture: Ethnography in Theory & Practice
NEW490-7 Mash-up: Intermedia Intersections in the Art
MUS461/MUS554 A History of Jazz
NEW490-1 Handmade Sounds: A Hands-on History of Electronic Music
NEW490-4 Sound Studies

Selected Publications:

Dewar, Andrew Raffo. 2010. Searching for the Center of a Sound: Bill Dixon's Webern, the Unaccompanied Solo, and Compositional Ontology in Post-Songform Jazz. Jazz Perspectives 4(1):59-87 (April 2010).

Dewar, Andrew Raffo. 2009. Book Review: The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde. Edited by David W. Bernstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. The Journal of the Society for American Music, 3(2):253-258.

Dewar, Andrew Raffo. 2009 "Alvin Lucier." in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Dewar, Andrew Raffo with Bill Dixon. 2008. "Bill Dixon." in The Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Edited by Lewis Porter & Ted Gioia. Online publication: http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/2008/12/18/dixon-bill-william-robert

Dewar, Andrew Raffo. 2003. Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music: Testifying for the Neighborhood. Liner notes for LP reissue of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music. Blue Note BST84294.

Dewar, Andrew Raffo. 2003. Catching up with Eddie Gale: Black Rhythm Happening and Beyond. Liner notes for LP reissue of Black Rhythm Happening. Blue Note BST84320.

Selected Discography:

Andrew Raffo Dewar - Six Lines of Transformation & Music for Eight Bamboo Flutes. 2008. Winter Park, FL: Porter Records PRCD4006.

The Bill Dixon Orchestra. 2008. 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur. New York, NY: Aum Fidelity AUM046.

Quartet Solo Series: Peterson/Schulze/Chen/Dewar. 2008. Chicago, IL: Striking Mechanism SM-0001.

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007. Victoriaville, Quebec: VICTO records 0109.

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet. 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006. New Haven, CT: Firehouse 12 Records.

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