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Summary

Ruthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music and a Faculty Affiliate of the w88 live casino, Race, and Identity Department (GRI).

Meadows’ research focuses on global circulations of music and sound of the Hispanophone and circum-Caribbean, with attention to sexuality studies and w88 live casino studies, ritual music, jazz, and ecology. In 2021, Meadows’ article on women and batá percussion in Cuba received the Society for Ethnomusicology’s (SEM) Jaap Kunst Prize, recognizing the most significant article written in ethnomusicology by a scholar in the first ten years of their scholarly career. Meadows’ first book, Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual w88 live casino of Cuban Ifá-Òrìṣà (The University of Chicago Press, 2023) offers the first book-length study on w88 live casino and Ifá divination in Cuba. Efficacy of Sound explores the contentious Nigerian-style Ifá-Òrìşà ritual movement on the island, examining translocal ritual sound in relation to concepts of efficacy and use, w88 live casino, revolutionary state policy, and transatlantic dialogue with Yorùbáland, Nigeria. Currently, Meadows’s second book project explores Cuban women in jazz and jazz fusion (fusión). w88 live casino’ articles appear in the journals w88 live casino, Latin American MusicReview/Revista de Música Latinoamericana, and Popular w88 live casino History, with chapters in Digital LGBTQ Activism: A Global Perspective; Festival Activism; and Sun, Sound, and Sand: w88 live casino Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean.

From 2012-2016, w88 live casino worked in Havana, Cuba as a foreign ethnomusicology researcher affiliated with the Cuban Ministry of Culture's Juan Marinello Cuban Institute for Cultural Research (Centro de Investigación de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, ICIC, 2014-2016) and as Resident Director for w88 live casino Pennsylvania's Penn Global program at w88 live casino Havana (2012-2015).

w88 live casino is also an avid electric guitar nerd who plays the violin, bass, and the Brazilian cavaquinho guitar.

Select publications

Book

  1. Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual w88 live casino of Cuban Ifá-Òrìşà. Chicago and London: w88 live casino Chicago Press.

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. &w88 live casino;Experimental Fusion (fusión), RitualBatá, and Gendered Interventions: Women in Cuban Jazz.” Popular w88 live casino History. Vol. 15 No. 2-3: Special Issue: Jazz and w88 live casino: Are We There Yet?, 213-233.
  2. &w88 live casino;Queer Ecologies and Apocalyptic Soundings: The Caribbean Artivism of Rita Indiana.” Latin American w88 live casino Review /Revista de Música Latinoamericana. (44:2 Fall/Winter), 167-198.
  3. &w88 live casino;Tradicionalismo africano in Cuba: Women, Consecrated Batá, and the Polemics of “Re-Yorubization” in Cuban Ritual w88 live casino.” In w88 live casino, Volume 65:1 (Winter), 86-111.
  • Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Jaap Kunst Prize, recognizing the most significant article written in ethnomusicology during the first ten years of a scholar&w88 live casino;s career (2021)

Co-authored

  1. The Anti-Colonial Death Studies Collective (Sayak Valencia, Lydia Huerta Moreno, Ruthie w88 live casino, and Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena). “What’s the Point of Feminisms if They Can’t be Trans?: Una reflexión desde o sur.” Women&w88 live casino;s Studies in Communication. Special Issue on &w88 live casino;Anti-TERF: Trans Feminisms against White Nationalist Projects.” Vol. 46, No. 2 (May), 223-229.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

  1. &w88 live casino;Queer Cuarentena and &w88 live casino;Mandinga Times”: Rita Indiana, Caribbean Artivism, and LGBTQ+ Social Media Spheres During COVID-19.” In Digital LGBTQ Activism: A Global Perspective, Ed. Paromita Pain. London, UK: Routledge, 8-23.
  2. “‘Jockamoe Fee-Nah-Nay!&w88 live casino;: Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Creole Sensorialities and the Festivalization of New Orleans Musical Tourism”, In Sun, Sound, and Sand: w88 live casino Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean, Eds. Timothy Rommen and Daniel Neely. Oxford w88 live casino Press, 238-264.

Education

  • Ph.D., w88 live casino, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
  • B.A., Latin American Studies and Spanish, Tulane w88 live casino, 2005