Dr. Paul Greene

ONLINE MATERIALS
Student Resources

• Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures, eds. Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello (Wesleyan University Press, Music/Culture Series) (2005). Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for
  Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology (2006).
• "Introduction: Wired Sound and Sonic Cultures,” by Paul D. Greene. In Wired for Sound (2005).
• “Nepal’s Lok Pop Music: Representations of the Folk, Tropes of Memory, and Studio Technologies.” Asian Music 34(1):43-65 (2003).
• “Mixed Messages: Unsettled Cosmopolitanisms in Nepali Pop.” Popular Music 20(2):169-87 (2001).
• “At the Crossroads of Languages, Musics, and Emotions in Katmandu.” Popular Music and Society 24(3):95-116, with David Henderson (2000).
• “Echoes in the Valleys: A Social History of Nepali Pop Music, 1985-2000.” Cover story of Wave, Nepal's popular culture magazine. Wave 63:16-18, 21, co-authored with Yubakar Raj Rajkarnikar, Editor of Wave (March, 2001).
• “Kadri Gopalnath: Saxophone Chakravathy (Emperor of the Saxophone) in the Concert Tradition of South Indian Classical Music.” Saxophone Symposium 26:75-85 (2001).
• “Authoring the Folk: The Crafting of a Rural Popular Music in South India.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 22(2):161-72 (2001).
• “Handheld Computers as Tools for Writing and Managing Field Data.” Field Methods 13(2):181-97 (formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods) (2001).
• "Sound Engineering in a Tamil Village: Playing Audio Cassettes as Devotional Performance." Ethnomusicology 43(3):459-89 (1999).
  

• "Introduction: Mindfulness and Change in Buddhist Musical Traditions." Asian Music 35(2): 1-6, with Li Wei (2004).
• "The Dhamma as Sonic Praxis: Paritta Chant in Burmese Theravada Buddhism." Asian Music 35(2): 43-78.
• "Buddhism and the Musical Cultures of Asia: An Annotated Discography." Asian Music 35(2): 133-74, with Kieth Howard,Terry E. Miller, Steven G. Nelson, Phong T. Nguyen, and Hwee-San Tan.
• "Ordering a Sacred Terrain: Melodic Pathways of Himalayan Flute Pilgrimage.” Ethnomusicology 47(2):205-28 (2003).
• “Sounding the Body in Buddhist Nepal: Neku Horns, Himalayan Shamanism, and the Transmigration of the Disembodied Spirit.” The World of Music 44(2):93-114 (2002).
• “Buddhism and the Musical Cultures of Asia: A Critical Literature Survey.” The World of Music 44(2):135-75, with Keith Howard, Terry Miller, Phong Nguyen, and Hwee-San Tan (2002).
  

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

• Guest Co-Editor, The World of Music forthcoming issue: Women and Music in Sri Lanka, with Martina Claus-Bachmann.
• Guest Editor, Asian Music, issue 35(2): Mindfulness and Change in Buddhist Musical Traditions, with Li Wei.
• Guest Editor, The World of Music, issue 44(2): Body and Ritual in Buddhist Musical Cultures.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
• A.B., Harvard University, magna cum laude

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Paul Greene is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Integrative Arts at the Pennsylvania State University's Brandywine Campus. He teaches World Music, Cultural Anthropology, The Evolution of Jazz, Musical Traditions of South Asia, Western Art Music, and American Music. His research focuses on music and pilgrimage in the Himalayas, folk music and audio cassette culture in South India, music and sound studio technology, Sufi music, music and the body, weeping songs, Buddhist musical traditions and Burmese music.