ERIC BERNARD EDERER
e-mail: e@ericederer.com

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Education

Ph.D. Music (Ethnomusicology), University of California, Santa Barbara 2011
(Scott L. Marcus, committee chair)

M.A. Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara 2007

B.A. Music Composition, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara 1996

A.A. Spanish Language, Santa Barbara City College 1994

Apprenticeship in Luthiery (classical guitar making) with A. Markasky Jr., Santa Cruz, CA 1989-1991

 

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, "Musics of the Middle East" Fall Semester 2012

Instructor, Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp; Turkish ud and makam music theory, Summer 2012

Private instructor, ud and (Arab and Turkish) maqam/makam music theory, September 2010 to present

Associate Teacher, Music Dept. UCSB:
"World Music" - Summer 2007

Ud instructor for UCSB Middle East Ensemble - Oct. 2003 - March 2008

Teaching Assistant, Music Dept., UCSB:
"Music and Popular Culture in America" - Spring 2008, Winter 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007

"World Music" - Spring 2006, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Winter 2004, Fall 2003

 

Publications

"Cümbüş as Instrument of 'the Other' in Modern Turkey" in Proceedings from the International Conference on Musical Representation/Representation in Music. October 2010, Istanbul: Istanbul Technical University

"İstanbul'un Cümbüş Sadasι - Istanbul's Voice of Revelry," chapter in Bizans'tan Günümüze İstanbul Musikileri - Music of Istanbul from the Byzantine Empire to the Present. Istanbul: Yeditepe University (in press)

Definitions of the musical instruments "Cümbüş," "Yaylι Tanbur," and "Lâvta" in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press)

"The Cümbüş as Instrument of 'the Other' in Modern Turkey." Master's thesis, UCSB, Jan. 2007

 

Guest Lectures and Presentations

"Music of the Eastern Mediterranean," Fall 2010, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR

"Music and Advertising" for the class Music and Pop Culture in America Fall 2006, Winter 2007, UCSB

"Lutes of the Silk Road" (contributor) as part of visiting Silk Road Project exhibition, March 2007, UCSB

"Music of the Sephardi Jews" for the class Jews Among the Nations Spring 2007, for the class World Music Spring 2005, and for the class Religion and Western Civilization II: Medieval Winter 2004, Winter 2005, UCSB

"Hollywood as Music Culture" for the class World Music Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005, UCSB

"Greek Music: Smyrnéika and Rembétika" for the class Music of the Balkans Fall 2005, UCSB

 

Conference Presentations

"(Re-)Constructions of Ottoman-ness in Today's Classical Turkish Music World," Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference, November 2010, Los Angeles, CA

"Imaginings of Ancient Greece in Twentieth Century Music," Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter, February 2008, UCSB

"Dueling Multiculturalisms and Musical 'Con-Fusion' in Modern Turkey: the Recontextualization of an Instrument of Otherness," Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference, October 2006, Honolulu, HI

"Dueling Multiculturalisms and Musical 'Con-Fusion' in Modern Turkey: the Recontextualization of an Instrument of Otherness," Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter Conference, March 2006, San Diego, CA

"Cümbüş as Instrument of 'the Other' in Modern Turkey," International Conference on Musical Representation/Representation in Music, Istanbul Technical University, October 2005, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Music Ensembles and Composition

Cinetrax Music Library (composer; Hollywood, CA) 1990-Present

Nasuhi Mehmet Efendi Dergâhι Ayin Topluluǧ (lâvta; Mevlevi Ayin-s for "whirling dervish" ceremony; Üsküdar/İstanbul, Turkey) Dec. 2009-Aug. 2010

Bulbul Ensemble (lâvta; Eastern Arab and Turkish classical musics; Chicago, IL) Oct. 2009-July 2010

UCSB Middle East Ensemble (ud, cümbüş; Santa Barbara, CA) Oct. 2001-Spring 2008

Mesógeios (darbuka, baglamás; Greek Smyrnéika and Rembétika; Santa Barbara, CA) Jan. 2001-Nov. 2008

Flor de Kanela (ud, cümbüş, voice; traditional Sephardi music; Santa Barbara, CA; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR) Oct. 2004-Present

 

Academic Translations and Music Transcriptions

Music transcriber for UCSB Middle East Ensemble Fall 2002- Spring 2008

Translated (Spanish to English): Wilde, Guillermo. 2007. "Toward A Political Anthropology Of Mission Sound: Paraguay In The 17th And 18th Centuries" in Music and Politics, vol. II, 2007

 

Fieldwork

Istanbul, Turkey (performer-generated makam theory as expressed in taksim-s 1910-2010) Nov. 2008 to Aug. 2009

Western Turkey (history of the cümbüş as a marker of ethnic identity) June-Dec. 2005

Istanbul, Turkey (classical makam and contemporary ud practice) June-Aug. 2003

 

Languages other than English

Spanish (fluent)

French (read, intermediate speaking)

Portuguese (read, intermediate speaking)

Italian (read, intermediate speaking)

Turkish (intermediate fluency)

 

Awards, Scholarships, etc.

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship Fall 2008

American Research Institute in Turkey Dissertation Fellowship (declined) Winter 2008

UCSB Music Affiliates Menk Fellowship 2008-2009

Excellence in Performance: Ethnomusicology, UCSB Music Dept., 2007

Sarkis Tchejeyan Memorial Fellowship June 2007

Excellence in Performance: Ethnomusicology, UCSB Music Dept., 2003

Sarkis Tchejeyan Memorial Fellowship June 2002

 

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