Hayes, Eileen M.
Eileen M. Hayes
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology; Chair, MHTE.
Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies
BM, Temple University; MA, Indiana University; PhD, University of Washington.
Email: Eileen.Hayes@unt.edu
Eileen M. Hayes joined the College of Music faculty in fall 2002. Her research interests include African American music, feminist theories, queer studies in music and the social sciences, and race in American popular culture. She pursues these interests in her current project, a full-length manuscript on race and the sexual politics of women's music, a network that emerged from a subculture of lesbian feminism in the early 1970s (University of Illinois, in press). Hayes' book is the first to theorize the intersections of race and gender in this realm. Her writings appear in Ethnomusicology and Women and Music: the Journal of Gender and Culture. She is a contributor to Maultsby and Burnim's African American Music: An Introduction (Routledge, 2005). She has presented papers at numerous conferences including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, Feminist Theory and Music, the Society for American Music, meetings of the German Musicological Society, and the Center for Black Music Research. She is the co-editor with Linda Williams of Black Women and Music: More than the Blues (University of Illinois Press, 2007), nominated for the 2008 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH).
Dr. Hayes is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. She is the Book Review Editor for Women and Music and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Eastman Rochester series for monographs in ethnomusicology, and the College Music Society monograph series. Hayes is the Co-Chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Section on the Status of Women and the immediate past co-chair of SEM's Gender and Sexualities Taskforce. In 2008, she co-founded the Southern Plains Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a regional chapter comprised of faculty and students in Texas ad Oklahoma. 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 women, people of color, and other underrepresented constituencies in schools of music.