multi-instrumentalist · ethnomusicologist · educator
Hartford, Connecticut Area
- Current
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- Private Lessons Instructor in Woodwinds at Green Street Arts Center
- Music Director at Oddfellows Playhouse, Middletown, CT
- Musical Accompanist, Dance Department at Wesleyan University
- Private Lessons Instructor in Woodwinds, Department of Visual & Performing Arts at University of New Haven
- Music Director at ArtFarm Theater Company, Middletown, CT
- Instructor, IDS Summer Camp at Independent Day School, Middlefield, CT
- Adjunct Faculty, Department of Visual & Performing Arts at University of New Haven
- Director, Youth Gamelan at Wesleyan University
- Editor, Silent Sounds literary publication at Middletown Public Schools, Middletown, CT
- Adjunct Faculty, Music Department at Southern Connecticut State University
- Past
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- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Music Department at Wesleyan University
- Visiting Lecturer, Music Department at Trinity College - Hartford
- Systems and Gifts Coordinator, Acquisitions Department, Oberlin College Libraries at Oberlin College
- Education
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- Wesleyan University
- Wesleyan University
- Antioch College
- Oberlin College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Performing Arts
- Websites
Joseph Getter’s Summary
Joseph M. Getter is an ethnomusicologist, educator, and multi-instrumental performer of many styles of music. His main research interests are in media, film, transnational flows of culture, and issues pertaining to identity, tradition and moderity.
Joseph has studied many forms of music, including traditional Javanese gamelan music with I.M. Harjito and Sumarsam, and the kora of Gambia with Rod Knight. He learned South Indian classical flute from the late Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. T. Viswanathan, drumming from R. Balasubramaniam and Ramnad Raghavan, and Karnatak singing from Shakuntala Murthy, Neeraja Chandrasekaran, and B. Balasubrahmaniyan. He has studied jazz, improvisation, electro-acoustic, and experimental music with Anthony Braxton, Jay Hoggard, Ron Kuivila, and Alvin Lucier. Joseph has appeared in concerts at many venues such as Art Summit (Jakarta), The Indian Fine Arts Society (Chennai), The Stone (New York), Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Freer Gallery of The Smithsonian Institution, Princeton, Yale, Oddfellow's Playhouse (Middletown), The Buttonwood Tree (Middletown), and Jacob's Pillow.
Joseph's scholarship on the music of India has been published by Wesleyan University Press, in the journal Ethnomusicology and elsewhere. He is Editor of Silent Sounds, the literary publication of Middletown Public Schools. He has performed on recordings of fusion music by the groups Sa-Reel Project and Ut-Gret, and his recording of experimental music for clarinet and electronics is available on the MI/Q label.
Joseph Getter’s Specialties:
Able to teach courses in ethnomusicological theory and methodology; musics of the world; Western music theory and history; area studies in music; popular music; music for film, dance, theater; music and social movements; recording arts and technology; music and gender; anthropological theory and methodology; religion and religious studies; private lessons in musical instruments; performance ensembles in jazz, percussion, Western classical music, experimental music, music of India and Indonesia.
Joseph Getter’s Experience
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Private Lessons Instructor in Woodwinds
Green Street Arts Center
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Music Director
Oddfellows Playhouse, Middletown, CT
(Performing Arts industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Musical Accompanist, Dance Department
Wesleyan University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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Private Lessons Instructor in Woodwinds, Department of Visual & Performing Arts
University of New Haven
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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Music Director
ArtFarm Theater Company, Middletown, CT
(Performing Arts industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Instructor, IDS Summer Camp
Independent Day School, Middlefield, CT
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Adjunct Faculty, Department of Visual & Performing Arts
University of New Haven
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
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Director, Youth Gamelan
Wesleyan University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2002 — Present (7 years )
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Editor, Silent Sounds literary publication
Middletown Public Schools, Middletown, CT
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
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Adjunct Faculty, Music Department
Southern Connecticut State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2000 — Present (9 years )
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Music Department
Wesleyan University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
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Visiting Lecturer, Music Department
Trinity College - Hartford
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
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Systems and Gifts Coordinator, Acquisitions Department, Oberlin College Libraries
Oberlin College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1991 — 1994 (3 years )
Joseph Getter’s Education
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Wesleyan University
Ph.D. , Ethnomusicology , 2000 — 2009
Presently candidate for doctorate.
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Wesleyan University
M.A. , Music, concentration in Ethnomusicology , 1995 — 1999
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Antioch College
Buddhist Studies in India Program 1990 — 1990
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Oberlin College
B.A. , Religion , 1986 — 1990
Additional Information
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Joseph Getter’s Interests:
World music!
Joseph Getter’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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