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Music Department Faculty

Philip Vandermeer

Philip Vandermeer
Music Librarian, Adjunct Associate Professor

Office: Music Library
Email: vanderme@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-966-1113

Philip Vandermeer (Music Librarian, Adjunct Associate Professor) holds the Bachelor of Music (1978) and the Master of Library and Information Sciences (1980) degrees from the University of Tennessee, and a Master of Arts in musicology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984). He studied anthropology and ethnomusicology at Brown University, completing his Ph.D. at The University of Maryland, College Park in 1999, with a dissertation on the gospel songs of the country singer, Hank Williams. He has served as a music librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia and at the University of Maryland, and has taught musicology and ethnomusicology at SUNY-Binghamton, Brown, and the University of Maryland. He was appointed Head of the Music Library and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill in September 2001. He is currently President of the Music Library Association. His current research interests include the traditional musics of the southern Appalachians, early country music, the application of cognitive and language models to music analysis, and the intersections between music and information science. In addition to teaching in the Department of Music he also teaches music librarianship in the School of Information and Library Science.

Selected Publications and Editorial Positions:

Editor, Book Reviews, Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 2005-2006.

Editor, Music Library Association Technical Reports Series, 1998-2000.

Three Centuries of American Music: A Collection of American Sacred and Secular Music. Vol 7:.American Sacred Music. New York: G.K. Hall, 1991.

"Bibliographies of Music Literature: Ethnomusicology" and "Ethnic and World Music on Records." In Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography, 5th edition. Edited by Ida Reed and Vincent Duckles. New York: Schirmer, 1997.

"Ethnomusicology and the Music Library: Implications for Reference Service." In World Music in Music Libraries. Compiled and edited by Carl Rahkonen. (MLA Technical Report no. 24.) Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1994, pp.11-25.

"Gongs and Gong Making in Java: Technical Achievement in the Spiritual Realm." Percussive Notes 30/2 (Dec. 1991):48-53.

Book Reviews in American Music, Notes, and Fontis Artes Musicae.

Recent Courses:

Undergraduate: World Music, Music and Culture in the Southern Appalachians

Graduate: Current Issues in Musical Ethnography, Resources and Methods of Musicology
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