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Anthony Dean Griffey to Join Music Faculty as Artist-in-Residence We are delighted to welcome internationally renowned tenor Anthony Dean Griffey to our faculty this year as artist-in-residence. His affiliation with UNC-Chapel Hill adds to the strong reputation in the Arts which Carolina is building. During the year, Mr. Griffey will be coaching and teaching master classes to our voice students and to our Kenan Scholars’ cohort, working with chamber music students and UNC Opera students, and speaking in select academic classes.
Announcing the 2009-2010 Kenan Music Scholars The Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is delighted to announce the appointment of the following four Kenan Music Scholars set to enter the university in fall 2009. They will join our eight current Kenan Music Scholars in this exciting and innovative program.
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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 research and teaching interests include Appalachian studies, early American music, cross-cultural studies in music, religion, and performance, and early country music. 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

Graduate: Seminar in Music of the Southern Appalachians

 

 
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