INTERESTS:
Dr. Burke is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include the structural relationship between music and dance, ritual aspects of performance, embodiment, historical perspectives, and performance-generated ecstatic states. Her geographical focus is the Pacific Islands and the majority of her research centers on over two years of fieldwork in the Micronesian Republic of Kiribati. She also spent 2+ years in Papua New Guinea doing fieldwork and teaching at the national arts college along with four months in the Marshall Islands on a UNESCO grant researching local performance. She has presented her work at conferences of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Among her publications are a book chapter, encyclopedia articles, field recordings, and reviews of films, books, and recordings. Currently she is working with German anthropologist Wolfgang Kempf on a multi-year research project centered on historical recordings from Kiribati with the first of two books coming out this year. And, after ten years as the keyboard player for a nine-piece doo-wop show band (Doo-Wop Deville – they played at FSU!), she is presently rehearsing with a new Roy Orbison tribute band.
EDUCATION: B.M., Boston Conservatory of Music; A.M. Brown University; Ph.D. Brown University
COURSES: MUSC171 World Music Cultures, MUSC136 Pathways to Musical Understanding, MUSC248 History of Rock Music to the 1970s, MUSC141 American Musics, MUSC220 Women in Music, MUSC121 Music Appreciation
