Dr. David R Henderson
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by dhen on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 10:22.
Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Music Department
Courses I teach regularly:
MUS 210, Musics of the world; MUS 244, Musics of South Asia; FILM 271, World cinema; MUS 281/FILM 281, Music video; MUS 343, Avant-garde and underground music; MUS 345, Musics of Eastern Europe
My research interests:
I do research on music and film in Kathmandu, Nepal, and I am especially interested in the links between language, emotion, and memory, and the relations between style, identity, and social change.
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Moving wallpaper (Kelly Garcia, experimental film, SYE, 2006-07)
Khate: Voices of street children of Nepal (Yuki Poudyal, documentary film, Independent Study, 2008-09)
Postmodern Self-reflexivity and Patriarchal Representation in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999) (Oliver O'Sullivan, SYE, 2009)
The history of vocal music at St. Lawrence University (Wendy Berner, Sesquicentennial Fellowship, 2004)
Tape-trade: A bastion of live music/An industry taboo (James Reilly and Josh Potter, Independent Study, 2004)
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
“Handmade in Nepal.” In Theorizing the local: Music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond, edited by Richard K. Wolf. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“At the crossroads of languages, musics, and emotions in Kathmandu,” with Paul Greene (Penn State University). In Global pop, local language, edited by Harris Berger and Michael Carroll, 87-108. Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 2003.
Mementos, artifacts, and hallucinations from the ethnographer’s tent, co-edited with Ron Emoff (Ohio State University). London and New York: Routledge, 2002.