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Joyce Marie Jackson
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Associate Professor
Director of LSU in Senegambia (Abroad Program)
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, La 70803
Phone: 225-578-5942/6078 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: jjackso@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington, 1988.
INTERESTS
Folklore/Ethnomusicology/Sociocultural Anthropology
African American Music and Culture
African American Music and Culture; Performance Centered Studies in Africa
and the African Diaspora
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jackson, Joyce Marie. 2003. Life in the Village: A Cultural Memory of The Fazendeville Community. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Historic Park.
Jackson, Joyce Marie. 1996. "Cultural Evolution of the African American Quartet." In Saints and Sinners: Religion, Blues and (D)evil in African-American Music and Literature, Robert Sacre, ed., pp. 97-112. Liege, Belgium: Societe Liegeoise de Musicologie.
Jackson, Joyce Marie. 1995. "The Changing Nature of Gospel Music: A Southern Case Study." The African American Review 29 (2):185-200.
Jackson, Joyce Marie. 1995. The Gospel Train: Zion Travelers Spiritual Singers. Louisiana Folklife Recording Series #009. (Project director and co-producer of this documentary recording (cassette) and interpretive booklet.)
RESEARCH
2002-2003. Contact of Cultures: The Haitian Factor in the Louisiana Purchase and
Beyond (symposium and art exhibit), Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies.
2000-2003. The Rural Roots of Jazz in South Louisiana (multimedia interactive CD
ROM and curriculum guide), National Endowment for the Arts, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc. (Sponsor Grammy Awards) and the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
1998-1999. La Francophonie Noire: Bridges from French West Africa and French
West Indies to Louisiana (international symposium & exhibit), Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities & Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
Chair - Louisiana Folklife Commission (Governor's Appointee)
Associate Editor - Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
Member of Editorial Board - Journal of Popular Music and Society
COURSES TAUGHT
African American Folklore African Folklore
Folklore of the African Diaspora Africa
Seminar on the Arts of Africa (Visual & Performing) Black Music in America
Introduction to Folklore African Field Study
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
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