Eileen M. Hayes
Chair of MHTE
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Eileen M. Hayes, Associate Professor and Chair of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology has taught at the College of Music since 2002. She received her B.M. degree in music (piano/music history) from Temple University, her master's in folklore-ethnomusicology from Indiana University and her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington. Her areas of interest include African American music, feminist theories, queer studies in music and the social sciences, and race in American popular culture. Her publications include essays in African American Music: An Introduction (Routledge, 2006), Ethnomusicology (Spring/Summer 2004) and Women and Music: the Journal of Gender and Culture (Winter 2006). She is the author of Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music (2010). Hayes is the co-editor of Black Women and Music: More than the Blues (University of Illinois Press, 2007). She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of the Society for American Music and the Cultural Expressions Monograph Series of CMS. Hayes is the second vice-president of the Society for Ethnomusicology responsible for public relations and outreach. Her research into the interactions of race, gender and sexuality in regard to African American music cultures is complemented by her personal and professional advocacy on behalf of underrepresented constituencies in schools of music.
