W. Gerard Poole, Ph.D.

1250 South Washington Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314; Phone: 202-531-0870

wgerardpoole@gmail.com / www.wgerardpoole.com






Current


            Grant completion December 2011- June 2012:


            “A Preliminary Study Toward a Musical Semiotics for Therapeutical Purposes: Exploring New Concepts for a Neurology of 

            Musical Experience”


            Grant provided by the Center for Energetic Concepts Development, University of Maryland, College Park. Directed by

            Davinder Anand, Ph.D., Clark School of Engineering UMD, and the CALCE Center for Life Cycle Engineering, Michael G. Pecht,

            Ph.D., Director.


            Director, Audio and Video Intern Program, Art Institute of Washington

           

            “Music in Exile Project”  An ongoing program for interns to study and document immigrant and other musical sub-cultures within

             the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. [http://exilemusicaiw.blogspot.com]


            Summer Session 2013, Art Institute of Washington, Audio


                Directed four day workshop with final project objective, for prospective incoming students.


Dissertation


Dissertation entitled: “El Rocio: A Case Study in Music and Ritual in Andalusia” was successfully defended and I attained my doctorate in Ethnomusicology in the Spring of 2007. In this dissertation I introduced a general theory of sacred ritual systems within an evolutionary context that focused on the relationships between music, ritual, the emotions, and the religious experience.


Published Fall of 2009 by VDM ; Saarbruecken, Germany


Publications



Emotional Cultivation and the Chaotic Emotion: Towards a Theory of Ritual, Musical, and Emotional Parallel Morphology, as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices. In: "The Varieties of Ritual Experience" (ed. by Jan Weinhold & Geoffrey Samuel) as section of the series "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual", Volume II: "Body, performance, agency and experience". 2010 Germany: Harrassowitz



Associations


Founder and Executive Director of Society for the Study of Music, Ritual, and Experience. www.musicandritual.org [Under reorganization as “The Association for the Exploration of Music, Culture, and Science”, website under construction]


Membership

•The Society for Ethnomusicology

•The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

•The Gypsy Lore Society

•Association for Research on Non-Profit  Volunteer Organization and Voluntary Action


Current Employment


Art Institute of Washington

Instructor: World Music Survey, Survey of  the Music Industry, Survey of American Popular Music From 1820 to Present, Fundamentals of Music Theory.


Flamenco performer and teacher throughout D.C. area


Related Work


Musical consultant for Universal Unitarian Church Hymnal Project

Contract ended 2/22/10


Researcher and Consultant for the Faith and Organizations Project, conducted by the Schaefer Institute for Public Policy, University of Baltimore. Funded by the Lilly Foundation.

09/2008- 09/2009




Teaching Experience


Art Institute of Washington, Rosslyn, Virginia (present)

•Survey of World Music (HU120)

  1. •Survey of the Music Industry (AU140)

  2. •Survey of American Popular Music (Au103)

  3. •Fundamentals of Music Theory (Au150)


University of Maryland, College Park, MD (1999-2002)

•  Survey of World Music, Graduate Assistant (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)

•  Flamenco Guitar (Fall 1999-Spring 2002)


College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (1995-1999)

•  Western Music History

•  Flamenco and Classical Guitar


Northern New Mexico Community College, Española, NM (1994-1998)

•  Western Music History I and II

•  Music Theory I and II

  1. •  Flamenco Guitar



Education


Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology – University of  Maryland, College Park (2007)


Post-Graduate work in Ethnomusicology

• Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy in Ethnomusicology and Ritual Studies, Fall of 2003; Ph.D. awarded in Spring of 2007.

• Completed three summers in Peñiscola, Spain (1999-2002) consisting of workshops in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Iberian culture sponsored by the University of Maryland and the University of Valencia under the direction of Carolina Robertson, PhD.

•Conducted field research in Andalusian ritual from 1999 to 2004

•Studied Turkish Sufism in the Washington D.C. area and in New York, under the tutelage of Shaykha Farija of the Nur Ashki Sufi Jerrrahi Order, and its local branch  (2002-present), and as an ethnomusicological inquiry under Dr. Dane Kusic of the University of Maryland (Spring of 2002).


Master's Degree in Liberal Arts - St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM (1997-1998)


Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Classical Guitar Performance - University of Georgia, Athens, GA (1971-1976)


Paris-American Academy, Paris, France (1972-1973)

•  Courses in Classical Guitar, 20th century Music, Music theory, Music Composition, French Language, and Art History.


Peabody Preparatory, Baltimore, Maryland (1970)

•  Courses in Music Theory and Classical Guitar


Languages:


•  Fluent in Spanish (native speaker) and competent in French


Academic Presentations:


  1. •September, 2012: Presented paper, “The Sonic Mark” for The International Society for Mark Studies (SIGNUM), in Stockholm, Sweden.


  1. •November, 2009: Panel Chair for The Society for Ethnomusicology, Mexico City, Mexico: “Los Voladores: Exploring the Music, Dance, and Symbolism of a Living Ritual”


•July, 2009: The Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, D.C. “Exploring the Role of Music and Emotional Intensification in the Catholic Culture in Andalusia, Spain; A Multi-media Presentation.”


•March 2009: Mid Atlantic Society for Ethnomusicology, Richmond, Virginia. “Internalizing and Externalizing the Andalusian Musical Forms of Flamenco: A Study in Popular Musical Culture”


•Fall 2008: Ritual Dynamics 2008 Conference, Heidelberg, Germany.

“The Musical Form, Emotional Modalities, and Controlled Chaos, as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices”

Selected for publication Spring 2009 by Harrassowitz Publishing House


Gypsy Lore Society, Washington, D.C.

“Gypsies, Music, and Ritual, in Andalusia: Considering the Emergent Individual as Cultural ‘Knowledge of the Self’ Rather Than a Socio-politically Constructed ‘Identity’”


  1. • Summer 2007: Pohnepei, Micronesia. Lecture series for the Society of Jesus, directed by Fr. Richard McCouch, S.J.


  1. • Fall, 2003:  Society for Ethnomusicology Convention in Miami, Florida. Video presentation from ongoing project entitled: "Flamenco and the Sacred: Pilgrimage and Pageantry in Andalusian Catholicism: Towards a Theory of Ritual"
        Part I:  "Semana Santa: Dissonant Images and the Structures of

Passion."

Part II: "El Rocio, the Timeless Pilgrimage." [Video/DVD for

      Parts I and II, available upon request.]


References available upon request


[For both Academic and Flamenco Performance]