Corinna S. Campbell

Scholarship/Creative Work

Books/Articles

The Cultural Work: Maroon Performance in Paramaribo, Suriname. Wesleyan University Press, 2020.

“Modeling Cultural Adaptability: Maroon Cosmopolitanism and the Banamba Contest” in Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity, and Incorporation. Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha, ed. Brill Publications. 2018.  Winner of the Joann Kealiinohomoku Award for “an outstanding piece of ethnomusicological work (broadly defined) that substantially engages the topics of dance, movement, and/or gesture.”

“An Interview with Norma Sante” del Caribe, 2015.

“Aleke,” “Bigi poku,” “Kaseko,” “Kawina,”and “Suripop” entries for The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia for Popular Musics of the World.  Volume 9: Genres: Caribbean and Latin America. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Upcoming/In Process:

“Figuring the Human Cost of Gold: Suriname’s Mining Economy in Maroon Popular Music.” In Process.

“‘Between Audacity and Impertinence’: Cross-Cultural Engagements with Sardinian Cantu a Tenore.” Douglas Paisley, co-author. Under Review.

Select Conference Papers, Symposia, Seminars, Invited Lectures:

“Conversational Fluencies: Local Meanings in Afro-Surinamese Choreomusical Inter/Action.” Analytical Approaches to World Music Conference, University of Sheffield, UK. June, 2022.

“#My Life is Worth More than Gold: Sounding Out Human Costs and Values of Suriname’s Mining Economy in Maroon Popular Music.” Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, 2020.

“Against Weirdness: Surinamese Maroon Dance and the Politics of Recognition.” Invited Lecture, University of Oslo, Dept. of Music. May 25, 2020.

“Listening Through Musical Fusions: Articulating Maroon Cosmopolitanism in Banamba.” Congreso Indígenas, Africanos, Roma y Europeos: Ritmos Transatlánticos en Música, Canto y Baile. Veracruz, Mexico. April 2019.

“Ambivalent Expressions: Productive Anxieties in Folkloric Performance.” Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Bloomington IN. November 2019.

“Embodying Sociality: The Interactive Scaffolding of an Afro-Surinamese Dance Form.” Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology. Graz, Austria. September 26-28, 2019.

“Ambivalence In Common: Interpreting Folkloric Dance.” Dance Studies Association Conference. Evanston, IL. August 2019.

“Strategic Impositions on Cultural Archetypes: Recognition and Intimacy in Maroon Folkloric Performance.” Dance Studies Association. July 5, 2018.

““Ditch the Workout, Join the Party!”: Zumba’s Distributed Subjectivity.” Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Washington, DC. November 2016.

“Roundtable Discussion: Teaching ‘World Music’ in the 21^st Century.” Chair/Discussant. Northeast Chapter of SEM.  Boston, MA. May 7, 2016.

“Personalizing Tradition: Folkloric Interpretations of Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname.” 7^th Annual Cape Town Maroon Conference, Cape Town, Jamaica. June 20, 2015.