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Christopher Ballengee
Zbiory Fonograficzne
Dr Christopher L. Ballengee jest etnomuzykologiem, którego zainteresowania badawcze obejmują humanistykę kulinarną, film etnograficzny i dokumentalny oraz muzykę i kulturę Karaibów, w szczególności Trynidadu i Tobago. Wyreżyserował film dokumentalny Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora (2019), jest redaktorem naczelnym książek Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South (Bloomsbury, 2022) oraz Shooting Back: Documentary Film in Latin America and the Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2026). Jego nadchodząca książka, The Southern Table: Culinary Narratives of the Diverse American South, koncentruje się na żywności, przez pryzmat której można ukazać procesy tradycji i mieszania się kultur w południowo-wschodnich Stanach Zjednoczonych. Dr Ballengee jest absolwentem etnomuzykologii na Bowling Green State University (2005) i University of Florida (2013). Obecnie mieszka w Lublinie, wykłada kulturę amerykańską na Akademii Wincentego Pola i prowadzi warsztaty poświęcone kulturze amerykańskiej w American Corner na kampusie Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. Wcześniej pracował na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim Jana Pawła II, Anne Arundel Community College, Santa Fe College, University of Florida i Bowling Green State University.
Publikacje
2026. Shooting Back: Documentary Film in Latin America the Caribbean. UniversityPress of Mississippi.
2024. “Ghostly (Re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean Churile.” Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies 4(2): 50-76.
2024. “Making Movies about People Making Music: Reflections on Filmmaking.” In Joint Knowledge Production and Collaboration in Ethnomusicological Research edited by Kendra Stepputat and Felix Morgenstern (Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology, vol. 29). Shaker Verlag.
2022. Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South. Bloomsbury (Lexington Books).
2022. “From Dhol-Tasha to Tassa: Tradition and Transformation in Indian Trinidadian Tassa Drumming.” Roczniki Humanistyczne 70(12).
2022. Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora. Journal of Anthropological Films 6(1). DOI: 10.15845/jaf.v6i1.3474
2022. “‘When the Music Soundin’ Sweet’: Musical Instrument Construction, Performance Practice, and the Changing Aesthetics of Indian Trinidadian Tassa Drumming.” In Collective Memory, Identity, and the Legacies of Slavery and Indenture edited by Farzana Gounder, Bridget Brereton, Hilde Neus, and Jerome Egger. Taylor & Francis Ltd.
2021. “Tonality and Neoclassicism in Stravinksy’s Sonata for Piano, Mvt. 2 (1924).” Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 21.
2021. “Coolitude.” Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/key-concepts/coolitude
2021. “Music, Creolization, and (Re)Imagining Ancestral Arrival in Trinidad.” Coolitude 2: An Anthology, edited and published by Khal Torabully and Marina Carter.
2020. “From Indenture to Double Diaspora: Music, Film, and Visual Art of the Indian Caribbean.” With Darrell Baksh. Middle Atlantic Review for Latin American Studies 4(2).
2020. “Music as Sound, Music as Archive: Performing Creolization in Trinidad.” Middle Atlantic Review for Latin American Studies 4(2).
2020. “Calypso,” “Chutney,” “Chutney Soca,” “Soca,” “Steel Pan,” “Tamboo Bamboo,” and “Tassa.” In Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, edited by Andrew Martin and Matthew Mihalka. ABC-CLIO.
2019. “Trinidad and Tobago: History, Culture, and Geography of Music” and “Trinidad and Tobago: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice.” In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Janet Sturman. SAGE Publications.
2019. “Music Competitions, Public Pedagogy and Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago.” South Asian Diaspora 11(2).
2018. “Tassa Drumming as an Icon of Indianness in Trinidad & Tobago.” Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research Blog, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Link: https://goo.gl/WrEBGQ
2017. “Steel Orchestras and Tassa Bands: Multiculturalism, Collective Creativity, and Debating Co-National Instruments in Trinidad & Tobago.” In Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency, edited by Tina K. Ramnarine. Oxford University Press, 81-99.
2013. “An Ethnographic Video Project for the Music Classroom.” In The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, edited by Benjamin Halligan, et al. Routledge, 195-205.
2011. “J.L.’s Songs,” in Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English, edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite. Temple University Press, 147-184.
2009. “Co-National Instruments? Steel Pan, Tassa, and Nationalism in Trinidad & Tobago.” In Sharing Cultures 2009: International Conference on Intangible Heritage, edited by Sérgio Lira, et al. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development.
Projekty
2024-2025 | U.S. Embassy in Poland Program Grant
Civic Pathfinders: Director’s Cut. Project Designer and Coordinator. The project taught about civic engagement for a group of 50 Polish high school students. The capstone activity involved making short films on the themes of opportunity, prosperity, and innovation.
2019 | Research travel grant to Mauritius and South Africa, Anne Arundel Community College Division of Learning
2018 | Diego Carpitella Visual Ethnomusicology Research Fellowship, Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Giorgio Cini Foundation (Venice, Italy).
2018 | Research travel grant to Trinidad, Anne Arundel Community College Division of Learning
2018 | Research travel grant to Suriname, Anne Arundel Community College Division of Learning
2016 | Robert E. Kauffman Memorial Award for developing Anne Arundel Community College World Music & Dance Studies program
2013 | Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Florida