Joanna L. Bosse

Assistant Professor of Music

Spring 2008

  • Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology (MUS 211)
  • World Music Ensemble: Mbira Music of Zimbabwe (MUS 281)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Music (MUS 291)
Phone (207) 725-3869
Title Assistant Professor
Department MUSIC
Work Location 204 Gibson Hall
E-Mail jbosse@bowdoin.edu
Joanna Bosse: Bowdoin College: Music

Joanna Bosse earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research involves the ethnomusicological study of Latin dance music in the US, and particularly she is interested in what the popularity of genres like salsa, rumba, and tango among non-Latinos can tell us about how notions of ethnicity, race, and class are shaped through music and dance. She conducted fieldwork in dancehalls in the Midwest US, and considered them important sites for cross-cultural encounters and the construction of identity.

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