T.M. Scruggs
Associate Professor
Ethnomusicology
Phone: (319) 335-1617
Office: 309 CC
tm-scruggs@uiowa.edu

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Ejemplos musicales para la Misa Popular y la Misa Campesina Nicaragüense / Music examples for the Misa Popular and the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense.

T.M. Scruggs

Dr. Scruggs is an ethnomusicologist whose geographical specialty is music of the Americas, encompassing Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Latino and other musics in the United States. He directed the Latin American Studies Program at Iowa in 1991-92. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin. His research for his Masters degree was on the Texas-Mexican conjunto music and dance tradition and his doctoral research centered on music and dance in western Nicaragua.

Dr. Scruggs has published in the major journals in his field on the use of music to construct and negotiatie social identity. He produced an album of recordings he made while in residence in Nicaragua which was nominated for the best World Music release on an independent label. He has been the regional editor and/or primary contributor for the Central American region for virtually all scholarly music encyclopedias and reference works. In recent years he has organized two speakers series of distinguished ethnomusicologists: The Anthro-musicology of Global Trafficking (1996), and Music and Expressive Culture in the Negotiation of National Identity (1999).

Besides his academic activities as an anthropologist/musicologist, he performs various Latin American and Caribbean instruments, especially piano and marimba, and in 1995 he founded the UI Steel Pan Ensemble. Dr. Scruggs received a Fulbright grant and from August 2005 to August 2006 will conduct research on music and current social and political change in Venezuela. He will also offer a seminar at the Unversidad de los Andes, in Mérida, Venezuela. He can be reached at the same email address.

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