Sounds of Black Culture Shouldn't Be Marginalized.
Sounds of Black Culture Shouldn't Be Marginalized.
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Rami Toubia Stucky
University of Virginia, Old Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(316) 708-9404, rts2kh@virginia.edu
EDUCATION
University of Virginia
PhD, Music, 2021
Dissertation: Bossa Nova ‘62: Brazil’s Impact on American Popular Music
Commitee: Karl Hagstrom Miller (chair), Scott DeVeaux, Jack Hamilton, Penny Von Eschen, Noel Lobley
New England Conservatory
MM, Music History and Literature, 2016
Thesis: Music as Urban Renewal: Studio We, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Revitalization of the Bowery
Advisor: Robert Labaree
Bowdoin College
BA, Africana Studies, cum laude, 2013
Honors Thesis: Rhythm, Rage, and Restraint: John Coltrane, Nina Simone, and the Music of the 1963 Birmingham Bombing
Advisor: Tracy McMullen
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“A diplomacia cultural do Brasil e seu papel na chegada da Bossa Nova aos Estados Unidos durante a Guerra Fria.” Under review with Luso-Brazilian Review.
Book Reviews
Brazil’s Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century. By James P. Woodard. (Enterprise & Society, forthcoming).
Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s. By Michael C. Heller. (Journal of the Society for American Music, v. 12, n. 4 November 2018, pp. 520-521. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press).
Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World. By Caroline Potter. (Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, v. 12, n.1 2016. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Student Journal).
Public Scholarship
“What the Makers of Green Book Got Wrong about Black Music.” YouTube Video. Society for American Music Digital Lectures, 2021. Under Review.
“How We Frame Things with Our Language Matters.” The Brunswick News. July 22, 2020, sec. Letter to the Editor. https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/how-we-frame-things-with-our-language-matters/article_6c217d49-c6e8-56e5-9f98-f7d0006d7f01.html.
“Sounds of Black Culture Shouldn't Be Marginalized.” The Brunswick News. May 2, 2020, sec. Letter to
the Editor. https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/sounds-of-black-culture-shouldnt-be-marginalized/article_b19dbdbd-dd70-5f99-afcb-cfae1f958504.html.
“Steve Reich and the Harlem Riots: ‘Come Out,’ 1966.” YouTube Video. Society for American Music Digital Lectures, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dmltbwI9nw.
CONFERENCES PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS
“Orchestrating the Brazilian Clave in American Popular Music.” University of Virginia Music Colloquia Series, Charlottesville, VA. February 21, 2020.
“Lost in Translation: Introducing Bossa Nova to American Listeners.” The Annual Conference of the South Central Music Consortium, Charlottesville, VA. September 30, 2018.
“Baroque Counterpoint in Early Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue, 1959." Michigan Music Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. March 19, 2016.
"Student Activism at the New England Conservatory: Gunther Schuller, the Creative Black Artists, and Jazz Curriculum." Society for American Music, Boston, MA. March 12, 2016.
"Loft Jazz: The Politics of Space during the Cold War." Rutgers University's Graduate Music Conference, "Performance Place, Performance Space,” New Brunswick, NJ. March 8, 2015.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Virginia (instructor of record)
Black Music and Corporate America
The Modern Civil Rights Movement As Heard Through Jazz: 1955-1968
Musicianship II
Theory I
Introductory Piano Keyboarding
University of Virginia (teaching assistant)
Music, Politics & Social Movements in US & World (with Prof. Kevin Gaines)
Composing Mixtapes (with Prof. AD Carson)
Introduction to Jazz History (with Prof. Scott DeVeaux)
Popular Music (with Prof. Karl Miller and Prof. Noel Lobely)
New England Conservatory (teaching assistant)
Survey of Western Music: 1720-Present (with Prof. Thomas Handel)
Jazz History for Non-Majors (with Prof. Steven Bass)
Intro to Musical Styles (with Prof. Sean Gallagher and Prof. Matthew Cron)
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
Composer/Conductor
“Assum Preto.” Performed by Joy Collins and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble. April 15, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVKNVL6H8Us.
"The Song is You." Performed by Joy Collins and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble. December 8, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ottfk2qKNoU
"Lullaby of Birdland." Performed by Tina Hashemi and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble. April 13, 2019; October 26. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5V1_VI34o
"Everything Happens To Me." Performed by Tina Hashemi and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble. February 8, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRDJg6UE3p4
“Blue Champagne.” To be performed by Tina Hashemi and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble.
“The Hills Have Eyes.” Recorded by Trey and the University of Virginia Big Band Ensemble. Fall 2020.
Drummer
Monitor. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OUfsZqqBlsVtWIzayDPF5.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Global South Lab, University of Virginia
Fichenscher-Pace Award, University of Virginia
Jefferson Fellow in Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Fellow in Americas Center/Centro de las Américas, University of Virginia
Public Humanities Fellow in South Atlantic Studies, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Private Lessons Scholarship, Charlottesville Jazz Society
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fund, University of Virginia
Society For American Music Digital Lecture Series
SKILLS
Language
Levantine Arabic, French, Brazilian Portuguese
Technology
ArcGIS, Sibelius, Finale, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Audition
REFERENCES
Karl Hagstrom Miller
Associate Professor of Music
Old Cabell Hall, 114B
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-924-3052
Scott DeVeaux
Professor of Music
Old Cabell Hall, 208
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-924-6500
John D’earth
Senior Lecturer, Director of Jazz Performance
Old Cabell Hall, B18
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Penny von Eschen
Professor of History and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies
Nau Hall, 423
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Jack Hamilton
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Wilson Hall, 126
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903