Noe
Dinnerstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone number
1-845-901-8600
Room number
325.07 Haaren Hall
Education

 Ph.D.,  CUNY Graduate Center (2013, Ethnomusicology)

M. Phil,. CUNY Graduate Center (2012, Ethnomusicology)

 M.A. Hunter College, CUNY (2005, Music)
       
 
B.A., City College of New York (1975, Music)
 

Bio

 Noé Dinnerstein is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art and Music Department.  A native of Colorado and trained in ethnomusicology (PhD, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2013),  his research and music performance activities focus on North India, Ladakh, Tibet, and Latin America.  His ongoing research has focused on preservation and revival of traditional musics in Ladakh.  Similarly, he has been involved in chronicling the development of popular media in peripheral cultures, including both music and cinema, and is fluent in Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, and Ladakhi.  His other interests are more technological, drawing on his previous career as a software engineer.  He has been developing Open Education Resources (OER) for world music courses in CUNY,  allowing for a more democratic/participatory model of instructional media, while saving students textbook costs.  He has also been working on developing computational linguistic/musical analysis tools using open source software packages like Perl and Music XML.  
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Courses Taught

MUS 101-Introduction to Music

MUS 102-The Language of Music

MUS 104-Music in World Culture

MUS 190-Music, Dance, and Culture in the Himalayas

Professional Memberships
Society for Ethnomusicology Society for Asian Music Society for Nepal and Himalayan Studies International Association for Ladakh Studies. Tibetan Classics Translators Guild of New York (Board of Directors)
Languages
Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Ladakhi
Scholarly Work

EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNAL VOLUMES

Trends in World Music Analysis. Lawrence Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, & Noé Dinnerstein. Routledge, 2022.

Popular Musics in the Himalayas: Commodification, Constructed Regional Identities, and Global Technologies, Issue 38 (1) of Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, N. Dinnerstein and A. Alter (eds), 2018. 

ARTICLES

“Himalayan Hybridity and the Evolution of Ladakhi Popular Music” in Popular Musics in the Himalayas: Commodification, Constructed Regional Identities, and Global Technologies, Issue 38 (1) of Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, N. Dinnerstein and A. Alter (eds), 2018. 

Traditional Songs of Ladakh: A Musical, Cultural, and Literary Study. PhD Dissertation, Graduate Center, City University of New York, August 2013.

 “Songs and cultural representation in Ladakh” in Contemporary Publics and Politics in Ladakh, Issue 32 of Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, S.Deboos, J.Demenge and R.Gupta (eds), 2012.  

 

Research Summary

My ongoing research has focused on preservation and revival of traditional musics.  Similarly, I have been involved in chronicling the development of popular media in peripheral cultures, including both music and cinema. My other interests are more technological, drawing on my previous career as a software engineer.  I have been developing Open Education Resources (OER), allowing for a more democratic/participatory model of instructional media, while saving students textbook costs.  I have also been working on developing computational linguistic/musical analysis tools using open source software packages like Perl and Music XML.  
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