Summary
Ruthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of w88 online casino and a Faculty Affiliate of the Gender, Race, and Identity Department (GRI).
Meadows’ research focuses on global circulations of w88 online casino and sound of the Hispanophone and circum-Caribbean, with attention to sexuality studies and gender studies, ritual w88 online casino, 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 online casino of Cuban Ifá-Òrìṣà (The University of Chicago Press, 2023) offers the first book-length study on w88 online casino and Ifá divination in Cuba. Efficacy of w88 online casino explores the contentious Nigerian-style Ifá-Òrìşà ritual movement on the island, examining translocal ritual sound in relation to concepts of efficacy and use, gender, revolutionary state policy, and transatlantic dialogue with Yorùbáland, Nigeria. Currently, w88 online casino’s second book project explores Cuban women in jazz and jazz fusion (fusión). w88 online casino’ articles appear in the journals w88 online casino, Latin American MusicReview/Revista de Música Latinoamericana, and Popular w88 online casino History, with chapters in Digital LGBTQ Activism: A Global Perspective; Festival Activism; and Sun, Sound, and Sand: w88 online casino Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean.
From 2012-2016, w88 online 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 online casino Pennsylvania's Penn Global program at w88 online casino Havana (2012-2015).
w88 online casino is also an avid electric guitar nerd who plays the violin, bass, and the Brazilian cavaquinho guitar.
Select publications
Book
- Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual w88 online casino of Cuban Ifá-Òrìşà. Chicago and London: w88 online casino Chicago Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
- &w88 online casino;Experimental Fusion (fusión), RitualBatá, and Gendered Interventions: Women in Cuban Jazz.&w88 online casino; Popular w88 online casino History. Vol. 15 No. 2-3: Special Issue: Jazz and Gender: Are We There Yet?, 213-233.
- &w88 online casino;Queer Ecologies and Apocalyptic Soundings: The Caribbean Artivism of Rita Indiana.” Latin American w88 online casino Review /Revista de Música Latinoamericana. (44:2 Fall/Winter), 167-198.
- &w88 online casino;Tradicionalismo africano in Cuba: Women, Consecrated Batá, and the Polemics of “Re-Yorubization” in Cuban Ritual w88 online casino.” In w88 online 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 online casino;s career (2021)
Co-authored
- The Anti-Colonial Death Studies Collective (Sayak Valencia, Lydia Huerta Moreno, Ruthie w88 online 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 online casino;s Studies in Communication. Special Issue on &w88 online casino;Anti-TERF: Trans Feminisms against White Nationalist Projects.” Vol. 46, No. 2 (May), 223-229.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
- &w88 online casino;Queer Cuarentena and &w88 online 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.
- “‘Jockamoe Fee-Nah-Nay!&w88 online casino;: Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Creole Sensorialities and the Festivalization of New Orleans Musical Tourism”, In Sun, Sound, and Sand: w88 online casino Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean, Eds. Timothy Rommen and Daniel Neely. Oxford w88 online casino Press, 238-264.
Education
- Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, w88 online casino Pennsylvania, 2017
- B.A., Latin American Studies and Spanish, Tulane w88 online casino, 2005