Curriculum Vitae
JEREMY WALLACH
Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0190
(419) 372-8204
Fax (419) 372-2577
jeremyw@bgsu.edu
www.jeremywallach.com
EDUCATION:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D., May 2002.
Dissertation: “Modern Noise and Ethnic Accents: Indonesian Popular Music in the Era of Reformasi.”
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology, May 1992.
Senior Thesis: “Rites of the Condemned: Sociomusical Aspects of Speed Metal Music.”
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor. Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University. Spring 2009-present. Courses Taught: “Introduction to Popular Culture,” “Global Popular Music,” “Youth and Popular Culture,” “Asian Popular Music,” “International Popular Culture,” “Cultural Theory and Popular Culture” (senior capstone seminar), “Genre and Authenticity in World Popular Music Studies,” “Popular Music in America″, “Music as Popular Culture” (graduate proseminar), Music and Sexuality, Popular Culture Theory and Methods (required core graduate course).
Assistant Professor. Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University. Fall 2003-Spring 2009.
Adjunct Instructor. Ramapo College of New Jersey, School of Contemporary Arts. Course Title: “Women, Music and Culture.” Fall 2002, Spring 2003. Upper-level course on world music and gender.
Teaching Assistant. University of Pennsylvania, Undergraduate Pilot Core Curriculum. Course Title: “Globalization.” Fall 2000. Assisted in the design and teaching of an experimental multidisciplinary lecture/discussion course on the economic, historical, and cultural aspects of globalization.
Instructor. Universitas Atma Jaya (Jakarta, Indonesia), Department of Business Administration. Course Taught: “Introduction to Anthropology,” “Managing Across Cultures.” Spring 2000. All teaching conducted in Indonesian.
Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology. Course Title: “World Ethnography.” Summer 1999. Writing intensive seminar on world cultures.
Adjunct Instructor. Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County, Department of Integrative Arts. Course Title: “Popular Music in America: 1899-1999.” Spring 1999.
Teaching Assistant. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology. Course Title: “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.” Spring 1995.
Teaching Assistant. Haverford College, Department of Sociology/Anthropology. Fall 1992. Course Title: “Sociology of Crime.”
Guest Lecturer. Bowling Green State University, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Northern Illinois University, Columbia University, University of Richmond, Pennsylvania State University-Ogontz, Pennsylvania State University-Delaware County, Germantown Friends School, Universitas Atma Jaya (Indonesia), University of Denver. Topics include: studio technology, anthropology of music, language and culture, the ethnomusicology of rock, Indonesian rock and jazz, jazz history, music and multiculturalism, popular music and aesthetics, popular musics as global phenomena, music and nationalism, anthropology and business, Balinese music, music and religion, music and ritual, hip hop aesthetics and production techniques. 1993-present.
PUBLICATIONS
Wallach, Jeremy. “Unleashed in the East: Metal Music, Masculinity, and Malay Identity in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.” In Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World. (Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene, eds.) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
______. “Dangdut.” In Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume IV: Genres (John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, and Peter Wicke, eds.). London: Continuum Press, forthcoming.
_______. Review of Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (Dust-to-Digital DTD-10; 2007). Ethnomusicology, 53(1): 176-178, 2009..
______. Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001. New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 3. Madison. WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
_______. “Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta.” Ethnomusicology 52(1): 97-115, 2008.
_______. Review of New York City: Global Beat of the Boroughs (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40493; 2001). Ethnomusicology 49(3): 209-212, 2005.
_______. “Underground Rock Music and Democratization in Indonesia.” World Literature Today 79 (3-4): 16-20, 2005.
_______. Review of Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual by José Buenconsejo (Current Research in Ethnomusicology Volume 4, New York: Routledge, 2002), Asian Music 36(1): 123-127, 2005.
_______. “Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Two Indonesian Sound Studios.” In Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures (Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello, eds.). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 138-155, 2005.
_______. “Snapshot 11.4: World Beat.” In Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction (Ellen Koskoff, ed.). New York: Routledge, pp. 370-377, 2005. (Reprint of Garland Encyclopedia entry.)
_______. “Of Gongs and Cannons: Music and Power in Island Southeast Asia.” Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 3: 1-28, 2004.
_______. Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Indonesia (World Music Network RGNET 1055 CD; 2000), Ethnomusicology 48(3): 464-468, 2004.
_______. “Dangdut Trendy.” Inside Indonesia 78 (April-June): 30, 2004.
_______. “The Poetics of Electrosonic Presence: Recorded Music and the Materiality of Sound.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15(1): 34-64, 2003.
_______. “‘Goodbye My Blind Majesty’: Music, Language, and Politics in the Indonesian Underground.” In Global Pop, Local Language (Harris M. Berger and Michael T. Carroll, eds.). Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 53-86, 2003.
_______. “Exploring Class, Nation, and Xenocentrism in Indonesian Cassette Retail Outlets.” Indonesia 74 (October): 79-102, 2002.
_______. “World Beat.” In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 3: The United States and Canada (Ellen Koskoff, ed.). New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 337-42, 2001.
_______. Review of Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-48, Vols.1 and 2 (Rounder Records CD 1714, 1715; 1997). Yearbook for Traditional Music 32: 235-36, 2000.
_______. Review of “A History of Siamese Music Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505-1932″ (T. Miller and J. Chonpairot; Crossroads 8/2:1-192, 1994). Khosana 24: 3-4, 1997.
_______. Review of My Music (S. Crafts, D. Cavicchi, C. Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993). Oral History Review 23(2): 128-30, 1996.
_______. “Aural Autocracies: Music and Power in Island Southeast Asia.” Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter 15(2): 3-6, 1996.
Wallach, Jeremy, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene. “Introduction: Affective Overdrive, Scene Dynamics, and Identity in the Global Metal Scene.” In Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World. (Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, and Paul D. Greene,eds.) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
_______, eds. Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
Wallach, Jeremy and Vinay Dharwadker. “South and Southeast Asia.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, Volume 6: Asia and Pacific Oceania (Vinay Dharwadker and Gary Xu, eds., Gary Hoppenstand, General Editor). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 211-226, 2007.
IN PREPARATION:
“Notes on Dangdut Music, Popular Nationalism, and Indonesian Islam.” In Sonic Modernities: Popular Music and New Social Formations in the Malay World (Bart Barendregt and Wim van Zanten, eds.), edited volume in preparation.
“‘Ohio is for Lovers’: Class, Masculinity, and Emotionality in a Midwestern Emo Scene.” With Matthew Aslaksen. Article in progress.
“Jazz Rock Ethnic Fusion Meets the World: Genre and Authenticity in the Music of Indonesia’s Krakatau.” With David Harnish. Article in progress.
“Distortion-Drenched Dystopias: Metal and Modernity in Southeast Asia.” In Music, Metal and Politics (Niall Scott, ed.), Probing the Boundaries/At the Interface. Oxford: The Inter-Disciplinary Press, edited volume in preparation.
“The Ethnomusicology of Popular Music: A Critical Survey and New Approaches.” Book manuscript in progress.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Cultural Perspectives on Post-Soeharto Indonesia: The Case of Dangdut.” To be presented at the International Studies Spring Forum, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; November 2009.
Co-presenter with Brian Hickam, Thomas Atwood, and Laura Wiebe Taylor. “Rising Force: The Current State of Heavy Metal Scholarship.” To be presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, October 2009.
Co-presenter with Brian Hickam. “Female Authority and Dominion: Discourse and Distinctions of Heavy Metal Scholarship.” To be presented at the Metal and Gender Conference, Cologne, Germany; October 2009.
“Popular Music and the Mass Media in Indonesia.” Presented at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado; March 2009.
“Fluid Genres: Indonesian Popular Music, National Identity, and Globalization.” Presented at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado; March 2009.
“Two Indonesian Perspectives on American Popular Culture” (Discussant). Department of Popular Culture Colloquium Series, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; January 2009.
“Global Underground Rock, Mass Mediation, and the Problem of Authenticity.” Panel Title: “Action, Cut, Print! New Cultures of Media Production.” To be presented at the American Anthropological 106th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California; November 2008.
“Distortion-Drenched Dystopias: Metal and Modernity in Southeast Asia.” To be presented at the “Heavy Fundametalism” Interdisciplinary Conference, Salzburg, Austria; November 2008.
“‘Dangdut Is the Best’: Popular Music, Genre Ideology, and the Middle Class.” Panel Title: “Contesting Genre in Indonesia and on the World Stage” (Co-Organizer). To be presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 53rd Annual Meeting, Middletown, Connecticut; October 2008.
“A New Subfield? Comics and Music” (Panel Discussion). “The Comic Book in Popular Culture.” Conference sponsored by the BGSU Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green, OH; October 2008.
“Genre and Authenticity in the Jazz/World Fusion of Indonesia’s Krakatau.” Presented at the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ypsilanti, Michigan; March 2008.
“Punk, Metal, Globalization.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 30th National Conference, San Francisco, California; March 2008.
“Genre, Authenticity, and Hybridity in Indonesian Popular Music.” Presented at the Department of Popular Culture Colloquium Series, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; March 2008.
“The Relationship between Music and Culture.” Presented at the Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida; February 2008.
“‘Dangdut Is the Music of My Country’: Popular Music After Soeharto.” Presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; January 2008.
“Technology, Commodification, and Authenticity in Popular Music.” Keynote address presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; September 2007.
“Iwan Fals, Bruce Springsteen, and the Performance of Indonesian Masculinity.” Panel Title: “Global Rock: New Voices, New Perspectives.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 50th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia; November 2005.
“Popular Music and Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia.” Presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; April 2005.
“Vampires and Mosh Pits in the Global Village: Producing an Indonesian Rock Music Video.” Presented as part of the Haverford College Young Alumni Lecture Series, Haverford, Pennsylvania; February 2005.
“Playful Identifications and Hybridic Performativity at Urban Indonesian Acara.” Presented at the Society for East Asian Anthropology Mini-Conference, Berkeley, California; November 2004.
“Dangdut Underground: ‘Low Class’ Music and National Belonging in Indonesian Student Culture.” Presented at the School of Music Colloquium Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; March 2004.
“Dangdut Music, Indonesian Islam, and ‘Unofficial Nationalism.’” Presented at the Royal Netherlands Institute of South-East Asian and Caribbean Studies 17th Annual International Workshop on South-East Asian Studies. Workshop Title: “South-East Asian Pop Music in a Comparative Perspective.” Leiden University, The Netherlands; December 2003.
“From Theme Park to Mall: Representing Tradition and Modernity in an Indonesian Music Video.” Department of Popular Culture Colloquium Series, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; October 2003.
“Relieving Stress, Resisting Desire: Gendered Exchange at Jakartan Dangdut Performances.” Panel Title: “Music, Desire and Attraction” (Chair). Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 48th Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida; October 2003.
“Popular Culture and Grassroots Nationalism: The Case of Dangdut Music in Indonesia.” Presented at the Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; April 2003.
“Metacultural Performance: Music, Nation, and Mediation in Jakarta, Indonesia.” Presented for the Anthropology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; February 2003.
“From Studio to Street Corner: Production, Reception, and Replication of Dangdut Music in Indonesia.” Presented at the Department of Music, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia; January 2003.
“Rock and Reformasi: Indonesian Student Culture and the Demise of the New Order.” Panel Title: “Can the Subaltern Sing?: Asian Youth, Popular Music, and Social Movements” (Co-Organizer). Presented at the American Anthropological Association 100th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana; November 2002.
“Hebdige Was Wrong! : Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta.” Panel Title: “Punk in the 21st Century” (Co-Organizer and Chair). Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 47th Annual Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado; October 2002.
“‘Because My Soul is Malay’: Genre, Class and National Authenticity in the Indonesian Student Music Scene.” Presented for the Department of Music, Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series, Columbia University, New York City; February 2002.
“Ska Dangdut? : The Cultural Politics of the Indonesian Ska Craze.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 46th Annual Meeting, Southfield, Michigan; October 2001.
“The Modern Noise Makes Modern People, Part Two: Dangdut Goes Underground.” Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; March 2001.
“Rocking in the Free World: Global Perspectives on Heavy Metal” (Panel Discussion). Organizer and Chair. Society for Ethnomusicology 45th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; November 2000.
“Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in an Indonesian Sound Studio.” Presented (in absentia) at the Society for Ethnomusicology 44th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas; November 1999.
“Natural and Unnatural Sounds: Indonesian Pop as Musical Cyborg.” Presented at the American Ethnological Society 121st Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon; March 1999.
Student Commentator. Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; January 1999.
“Muzik Popular Malaysia dan Masyarakat Modern [Malaysian Popular Music and Modern Society].” Presented at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia; August 1998.
“Underground Rock at Jakarta’s Poster Café.” Presented at the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; April 1998.
“‘The Modern Noise Makes Modern People [sic]‘: Notes from the Jakarta Underground.” Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; January 1998.
“Beyond Performance: Music Recordings and the Materiality of Sound.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 42nd Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; October 1997.
“Identity and Its Discontents: Popular Music, Modernity, and Changing Conceptions of the Self.” Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; September 1996.
“Aural Autocracies: Music and Power in Island Southeast Asia.” Presented at the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland; March 1996.
“Love and Pronouns: Discourse Analysis of an Indonesian Pop Song.” Presented at the East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York, New York; February 1996.
“Cooperation Between the Subfields: Is It Possible?” (Open Departmental Forum). Organizer and Lead Presenter. Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 1995.
“Cultural Greyout and Rock ‘n’ Roll Sellout: Authenticity, Ethnomusicology and Popular Music.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology 40th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California; October 1995.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Klaus Wachsmann Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology. Awarded to Wired for Sound (Greene and Porcello, eds., Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005), 2006.
Gustave Reese Publication Fund of the American Musicological Society. Publication subvention awarded for Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001, 2006.
Bowling Green State University Scholars Assistance Program. Publication subvention awarded for Modern Noise, Fluid Genres, 2005.
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Publication subvention for forthcoming book with the University of Wisconsin Press. (Matching amount approved by BGSU Scholars Assistance Program.) 2005.Thesis Advisor, “We Feed off Each Other’: Embodiment, Phenomenology and Listener Receptivity of Nirvana’s In Utero” by Christopher Martin (M.A., Popular Culture, 2006), nominated for the BGSU Graduate College 2006 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Thesis Advisor, “My Boy Elvis: Gender, Fandom, and Performance in Rock and Roll” by Angela Fitzpatrick (M.A., American Culture Studies, 2005), winner of the BGSU Graduate College 2005 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Invited to attend the BGSU 37th and 38th Annual Honors and Awards Reception as a “Favorite Faculty Member.” Spring 2005, Spring 2006.
Invited Participant, The Royal Netherlands Institute of South-East Asian and Caribbean Studies 17th Annual International Workshop on South-East Asian Studies. Workshop Title: “South-East Asian Pop Music in a Comparative Perspective.” Leiden, The Netherlands. December 2003.
Teaching Assistantships, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. 2000, 1996, 1995.
United States-Indonesia Society Travel Grant. Supported travel costs for overseas dissertation research. 2000.
United States Department of Education, Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. Fellowship and tuition waiver for language study at the Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian and Malaysian, University Kebangsaan Malaysia. 1998.
Departmental Field Funds. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Supported a pre-dissertation pilot study in Indonesia. 1997.
Writing Fellow, Writing Across the University, University of Pennsylvania. 1993-1997 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Title VI) for language study at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Arizona State University. 1995, 1996
Hewlett Pantaleoni Prize for Best Student Paper, Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 1995
Honorable Mention, Usha Mahajani Prize, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1995
Magill-Rhoads Scholar, Haverford College.1989-1991
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
President-Elect, Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2009-2010.
Co-organizer, Symposium on Asian Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, 2009-2010.
Chair, Keynote Speaker Committee. Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2008-2011.
Co-Organizer, Residency at Bowling Green State University for Dr. Sarah Morelli (Indian Kathak dancer and ethnomusicologist), Spring 2009.
Inter-Disciplinary.Net Steering Group for the Music, Metal and Politics project, 2008-2011.
Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) Executive Committee, Bowling Green State University, 2003-2009.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University. 2009, 2004.
Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Jaap Kunst Prize Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology. Prize awarded to the most outstanding article in ethnomusicology published during the previous calendar year, 2008.
Manuscript Reviewer, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-New Zealand (IASPM-NZ) Conference Proceedings, 2008.
American Culture Studies Ph.D. Executive Committee. Bowling Green State University, 2008-2009.
American Culture Studies Advisory Committee, Bowling Green State University. 2006-2009.
Manuscript Reviewer, Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 2007.
Faculty Advisor, Bowling Green State University Hillel, 2005-2007.
Consultant, Global Metal (documentary film), Banger Productions, 2006-2008.
Chair, Junior Faculty Publication Prize Planning Committee. Popular Music Section of the. 2006.
Asian Studies Program Advisory Committee, Bowling Green State University. 2005-2008.
Keynote Speaker Committee. Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2003-2008.
Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Popular Music Studies. 2006.
Program Committee, Midwestern Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MidSEM) Annual Meeting, Spring 2005.
Proposal Screener, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies. 2004, 2005.
Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Popular Culture, 2004-2005.
Instructor Recruitment Committee, Department of Popular Culture, Summer 2004.
Co-Organizer, Concert at Bowling Green State University featuring Krakatau (Indonesian ethnic jazz fusion group), Summer 2004.
Lise Waxer Memorial Prize Committee. Awarded by the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology for best student paper on popular music presented at the national SEM conference. 2003.
Manuscript Reviewer, Internet Journal of Ethnomusicology. 2002.
Senior Copywriter. IndonesianArt.net (Jakarta, Indonesia). Contributed, translated, and edited copy for a multimedia Web site focusing on the art, music, literature, and mass media of Indonesia. Summer 2000.
Research Assistant. Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Music. Fall 1998.
Research Assistant. Dr. Webb Keane, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology. 1995- 1996.
Co-Founder and Publicity Manager. University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Colloquium Series, 1995-96, 1998-99.
LANGUAGES:
Indonesian, Malay (Malaysian), Jakartanese Malay.
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