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Dr. Andy McGraw

Professor of Music
Ethnomusicologist
Chair, Department of Music
  • Profile

    Andy McGraw received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 2005. Dr. McGraw has published extensively on Southeast Asian music, music and ethics, and rhythmic analysis. He has written two monographs for Oxford University Press and has co-edited monographs on Cornell University Press and Smithsonian. He is an active performer and directs a gamelan orchestra for the Richmond community.

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  • Publications
    Books

    In Press   Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music. Co-edited with Christopher Miller. Cornell University Press (SEAP).

    In Press   Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia.Oxford University Press: American Musicways Series.

    2016  Performing Indonesia. Co-edited with Sumarsam. Smithsonian Online Publications.

    2013  Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese New Music. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Journal Articles

    2022  “Feeling Time in Javanese Langgam Jawa,” Asian Music.

    2020  “Feeling the Feels: Spinozist Ethics and Musical Feeling in an American Jail.”Theory and Critique.

    2018  “Near Unisons in Afro-Cuban Drumming” (with Fernando Benadon and Michael Robinson). Music and Science 1(1).

    2016  “The Byar: An Empirical and Ethnographic Study of a Balinese Musical Moment.” (with Christine Kohnen). Analytical Approaches to World Music 5(1).  

    2015  “Atmosphere as a Concept for Ethnomusicology.” Ethnomusicology 60(1).

    2013  “Preliminary Remarks on the Helical Representation of Musical Time.” Analytical Approaches to World Music 3(1).

    2012  “The Ambivalent Freedoms of Indonesian Jazz.” Jazz Perspectives 6(3). (18,000 word).

    Book Chapters

    In Press   “Music as Ethics in an American Intentional Community,” Routledge Volume on Music and Ethics, Beverley Diamond, Jonathan Stock, eds.

    In Press  “Representing and Experiencing Rhythm in Drumming from Santiago de Cuba,” In AAWM Edited Volume. Routledge. With Fernando Benadon.

    In Press  “Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond Virginia.” In Contested Frequencies. Edited by Joanna Love and Jessie Fillerup.  

    2021  “Music Theory’s Tone Deafness,” Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory, Danny Jenkins, ed.

    2020  “The Moral Economy of Music in Tenganan Village, Bali,” In the Oxford Handbook to Economic Ethnomusicology.

    2020  “Musical Atmospheres and Process Philosophy,” In Music and Atmosphere, edited by Friendlind Reidel. Routledge.

    2019  “The Gong as a Symbol of State Power in Indonesia.” In Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia, NIAS Press.

    2018  “Ethical Soundscapes in the Richmond City Jail.” In Invisible Places: Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place. Lisbon: Acultura.

    2018  “Ethical Friction: Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Music in the Richmond City Jail.” Oxford University Press Handbook on Applied Ethnomusicology.

    2016  “Radio Java.” In Sublime Frequencies. Edited by Michael Veal. Wesleyan University Press.

    2015  “Musical Sanctuary in the Richmond City Jail.” In Tacet: Sound in the Arts. Edited by Matthieu Saladin. Published by Haute École des Arts.

    2013  Several entries (15-600 words each) on Indonesian musical instruments for the new edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (Oxford University Press).

    2013  “The Ethical Aesthetics of I Wayan Sadra.” In Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali: Changing Interpretations, Founding Traditions. Edited by Kendra Stepputat. Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag.

    2013  “The Geopolitics of Intercultural Experimentalism.” In What is Experimental Music. Edited by Benjamin Piekut. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

    2011 “The Balinese Avant-Garde: Transnational Networks, Mobile Identities.” In Southeast Asian Performance, Transnational Perspectives. Edited by Matthew Isaac-Cohen and Laura Noszlopy. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

    Blogs

    Invited blogpost for Oxford University Press. http://blog.oup.com/2013/11/gamelan-indonesian-music-america/

    Audio Recordings

    Gamelan Cage. Full length CD of original arrangements of early John Cage prepared piano works for hybrid and found gamelan. Produced in collaboration with Madé Subandi and the Ceraken ensemble. Sargasso (UK), with extensive liner notes (5,250 word).  

    Kolaborasi. 2008. Porter Records. 

    Sudamala. Double CD of traditional and experimental Balinese music performed by Gamelan Dharma Swara. Turis Records. Featuring my 13 minute original gamelan orchestra work Sikut Sanga.

    Essays

    2016  “Bali 1928.” Commissioned review essay for Asian Music. 6,000 words, with contributions by Gusti Sudarta.

  • Links
    facultystaff.richmond.edu/~amcgraw