Presentations

2011

Invited Guest Lecture. “Regional Folk Musics of the Southern United States.” Folklore in the US.  IUPUI.

Conference Panelist. “Everything’s Raisin’ But the Wages”: The poetics of class warfare in the work of two Hoosier songwriters. American Folklore Society.  Bloomington, IN.

2010

Invited Guest Lecture.  ”Folkmusic: Form and Function” Introduction to Folklore, IU- Bloomington.

Conference Panelist. “It’s so old it’s almost new.” The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ideologies of Tradition, and what it means to play “old-time” music. Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, CA

Conference Panelist. “It’s so old it’s almost new.” The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ideologies of Tradition, and what it means to play “old-time” music. American Folklore Society, Nashville, TN

2009

Invited Guest Lecture. “Who’s ‘tradition?’: Race and ‘traditional’ music in the United States” Folklore in the US, IUPUI.

Invited Guest Lecture. “Podcasting Basics.” Multimedia in Ethnomusicology, IU-Bloomington.

Invited Guest Lecture. “The Carolina Chocolate Drops: Old-Time revisited.” Introduction to Folklore, IUPUI.

Invited Workshop Host. “Professional uses of social networking: Facebook”  Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, IU-Bloomington. Dr. Jason Jackson, Coordinator

Invited Guest Lecture: “Tradition and Variation in American Vernacular Music.” Introduction to Folklore, IUPUI.

Invited Guest Lecture. “Public Folklore and Ethnomusicology – fieldwork for web publication.” Indiana Folklore, IU-Bloomington.

Conference Panelist. ” ‘I Don’t Think Hank Done It This Way’: Methods of Adaptation and Participation of African Americans in Country Music.” The Paul Lucas Conference in History, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.