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James R. CowderyEditorial Director RILM International Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3108 New York, NY 10016-4309 Phone: 1 212 817 1994 Fax: 1 212 817 1569 email: jcowdery@rilm.org |
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| James R. Cowdery, Ph.D., is Editorial Director at RILM; in addition to
overseeing the organization and day-to-day activities of the International Center, he is responsible for representing the field of ethnomusicology
in RILM’s database. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of
Ethnomusicology and as a consultant and writer for the
PBS television series Exploring the World of Music; his publications
include The Melodic Tradition of Ireland (Kent State University Press, 1990),
articles in several encyclopedias and journals, and, as co-author, the textbook
Exploring the World of Music (Kendall Hunt, 1999).
As a composer, Cowdery has received commissions from the Long Island Choral Society and
Meet the Composer, and his works have received premieres in New York City, Tokyo, and Budapest. He also performed Irish, Scottish, English, and American traditional musics throughout the U.S. and Canada from the 1970s through the 1990s. He received the Ph.D. from Wesleyan University in 1985. |
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