Jesse S. Wheeler^ Ph.D
3133 W. Leiand Ave. #2, Chicago, IL 60625
(603) 892-6692 (cell) (530) 236-8702 (fax)
Jesse.Wheeler@ucla.edu
Professional Foci: Place, cosmopolitanism, protest, health; Brazil, the Congo.
Education
2007
1999
1992
Doctorate of Philosophy, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of
California, Los Angeles, California (UCLA). Dissertation: Dark Matter:
Towards an Architectonics of Rocl<, Place, and Identity in Brasilia's Utopian
Underground (www.tinyurl.com/2z73ln).
Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin (UW-Madison). Thesis: "Made in Congo: Rumba Lingala
and the Revolution in Nationhood" (www.tinyurl.com/3bej6l).
Bachelor of Science in Speech, Department of Performance Studies,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Minor and Certificate in African
Studies. Third Year in Kenya.
Teactiing Experience
2004-2007 Visiting Researcher and Lecturer on Brazilian Rock, Department of
Sociology, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Lectured, delivered colloquia, and conducted research.
2002, 05, 09 Instructor and Logistical Officer, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga,
California.
Create and implement instructional travel program for students focusing on
Portuguese, Brazilian, and indigenous Brazilian cultures, provide supervision
to student researchers, simultaneously translate Portuguese to English and
English to Portuguese, and provide all guide services.
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, UCLA Dept. of Ethnomusicology
o The Music Industry (Professor Anthony Seeger)
o The Music of South America (Professor Anthony Seeger)
o The Development of Jazz (Professor Gerald Wilson)
Lectured, taught student sections, and guided projects.
2003 Portuguese Language Instructor, UCLA Extension.
Wrote lesson plans and delivered classroom instruction.
2000-2001 Visiting Researcher and Lecturer on African popular music styles.
Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Conducted research, assisted professor, and delivered colloquia.
2002 Adult Literacy Instructor and Tutor Coordinator, Albany Park Community
Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Taught students, managed, supervised, and evaluated tutor corps.
1998-1999 English as a Second Language Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin.
Taught English to immigrants of diverse ages, origins, and occupations.
Updated Tuesday, August 11, 2009
updates: www. tinyurl. com/2qnzgs
Additional Professional Experience
2004-present Freelance documentary production.
Principal & assistant: director, camera, writer, editor and researcher on
independent video documentaries in Brazil, France, Belgium, Malawi and the
US.
Media Arts Educator, Beyondmedia Education (www.beyondmedia.org),
Chicago, Illinois.
Develop curricula, lead media workshops, acquire music licensing and
rights, write grants, and provide diverse technical assistance for clients.
Deputy Field Organizer, Campaign for Change/Obama for America, Concord,
New Hampshire.
Recruited, trained, and supervised volunteers, facilitated voter education
workshops, collected and analyzed voter survey information, organized
candidate campaign events, canvassed potential voters.
Bibliographer, Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA.
Processed new acquisitions, assisted patrons, maintained databases, and
participated in outreach via weekly archive radio programs.
2001-02/
2009
2008
2003
Prepared Courses
NB: surveys can be adapted and taught as seminars
Surveys:
Musics of the World's Peoples
Music in South America
Music in Brazil
The Development of Jazz
Music, Protest, and Action
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Seminars:
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Made in Congo: Rumba Lingala and the Revolution in Nationhood
The Utopian Underground: Punk in Brasilia and Homologies of Place
Place, Space, and Music
The Why and How of the Where: Ethnography, Ethics, Methods
Publications
Editor
2007-present "nCz," a column in the Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter.
Developed, implemented and continue to manage a column as a forum for
graduate students to discuss theories of the "field" and the practice of
fieldwork; solicit and edit contributions and write framing material.
1997 Beyond Beijing: The International Women's Movement: The Handbook. Ed.
Cheryl Miller, with Salome Chasnoff. Chicago: Beyondmedia.
Articles and Chapters
2009 "Youth Media against Violence," Youth Media Reporter 3/3: Online and
bound at year's end. (With Salome Chasnoff.)
2008 "Rage, Distortion and the 'Furious Face' of Cosmopolitanism," in Musica,
ciudades, redes: creacion musical e interaccion social. Ruben Gomez Muns
and Ruben Lopez Cano, eds. Salamanca, Spain: SIBE-Obra Social Caja
Duero.
2006a
2006b
2006c
2002
Under Review
Reviews
2007
2006a
2006b
2004a
2004b
2002b
2002c
2001
Video
2008
2005
^^'Toca Rau//' Praise Singers on Brazil's Central Plateau," in Access All Eras:
Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture. Shane Homan, ed. Berkshire, UK:
Open University. 198-212.
"Kenya," in The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook: Complete Meals from around
the World. Sean Williams, ed. New York: Routledge. 10-15.
"Brasilia (Brazil)," in The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook: Complete Meals
from around the World. Sean Williams, ed. New York: Routledge. 160-64.
2005 ^^Rumba Lingala as Colonial Resistance," Image & Narrative 10
(www.imageandnarrative.be/worldmusica/worldmusica.htm).
^^Rumba Lingala e a revolugao na nacionalidade," Em Pauta (Porto Alegre,
Brazil) 13/21 (December): 113-132.
(Ethnomusicology): "A Tale of Two Scenes: Musings on Homologies in Rock
in Brasilia."
Aleksi Oksanen and Jari Jarvi, In the Blood: Portrait of a Griot (DVD,
Finland, 2005), World of Music 49/3: 137-138.
David Grazian, Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues
Clubs (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003), Popular Music 25/2: 331-33.
"A busca da autenticidade nos clubes urbanos de Chicago," review of David
Grazian, Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003), Jornal do Blues (Brasilia) 5: 3-4.
Christopher Dunn, Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a
Brazilian Counterculture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2001)
and Caetano Veloso, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil,
trans. Isabel de Sena. (New York: Knopf, 2002), Ethnomusicology
48/2:291-2.
Ruy Castro, Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music that Seduced the
World, trans. Lysa Salsbury (Chicago: A Cappeila, 2000) and Caetano
Veloso, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil, trans. Isabel
de Sena. (New York: Knopf, 2002), Popular Music Till: Tl9-73\.
Banning Eyre, In Griot Time: An American Guitarist in Mali (Philadelphia:
Temple University, 2000), Popular Music 21/1: 133-145.
Peter Fryer, Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil
(Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University, 2000) and Charles A. Perrone and
Christopher Dunn, eds., Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization
(Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, 2001), Ethnomusicology 46/2:
345-348.
Gary Stewart, Rumba on the River: A Popular History of the Two Congos
(London: Verso, 2000), Popular Music 20/2: 285-292.
On Your Skin: F*** the USA and Ethnography in Protest. A documentary of
local manifestations of the global protest movement, symbolized in
performances of the song "U.S.A." by The Exploited (www.tinyurl.com/
627gza).
Tributo ao Rock 'n' Roll. A documentary short I shot and edited of the
tribute band 7he Seven Rock Band in Brasilia, Brazil (www.tinyurl.com/
336ynm).
Conference Presentations
2009
"Global Protest and the New Cosmopolitan Class," Biannual Meeting of the
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Liverpool, UK.
Discussant: Michael Drewett.
2008b "Rage, Distortion and the 'Furious Face' of Cosmopolitanism," Annual
Meeting of the Sociedad de Etnomusicologia, Salamanca, Spain. Chair:
Elizabeth Lucas.
2007a "Never So Brazilian: Identity between Rock and Place in Brasilia," Biannual
Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music,
Mexico City, Mexico. Chair: Jan Fairley.
2007b "F*** the USA: Cosmopolitanism's Furious Face," Annual Meeting of the
Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbus, Ohio. Chair: Suzanne Cusick.
2006a "Of Griots, Gurus, and Guitars: Memory and Tribute in Brazilian Rock,"
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology,
Columbus, Ohio. Chair: David Harnish. Recipient of 2006 JaFran Jones
Award.
2006b "I hear ergo I am (here): Place, Rock and Identity in Brasilia, Brazil," Annual
Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Chair: Larry
Crook.
2006c "The Ethics of Place: Cosmopolitanism in the Rock of Brasilia," Biannual
Meeting of the Associagao Brasileira de Etnomusicologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Chair: Suzel Ana Reily. [P^]
2004a ^^Rock Brasiliense: Towards an Alternative Narrative of Brasilidade," UCLA
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference, Los Angeles,
California.
2004b "Rock Brasiliense: Towards an Alternative Narrative of Brasilidade," XXVII
Simposio/Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, Los Angeles, California.
2003a "The Authoring of Brazil in the Ascendancy of Samba," Annual Meeting of
the Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, California. Chair: Jonathan
Ritter.
2003b "Samba: From Style to Symbol," Annual Meeting of the Southern California
Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, California. Chair:
Sonia Seeman.
Invited Lectures and Colloquia
2009 "Punk in Brasilien: WiJtende Kosmopoliten und globaler Protest," July 22,
Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland.
2008a "Cosmopolitanism's Furious Face," March 3, Instituto de Investigaciones
Interdisciplinarias, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico.
2008b "Ethnography of the Fat Cat," February 14, the New School for Jazz and
Contemporary Music, New York, New York.
2008c "Never so Brazilian: Identity between Rock and a Hard Place in Brasilia,"
February 14, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New
York, New York.
2008d "Never so Brazilian: Identity between Rock and a Hard Place in Brasilia,"
January 31, College of Music, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan.
2007e "A Case Study in 'Moving Music': The Sound of Self in Rumba Lingala,"
January 31, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan.
2006a "Aspects of the Brazilian Music Industry," March 8, Department of
Ethnomusicology, UCLA.
2006b "I hear ergo I am (here): Notes from Brasilia on Place, Rock and Identity,"
March 17, Brazil At Large Work Group, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, UCLA.
^ [P] indicates "delivered/presented in Portuguese."
2006c "The Ethics of Where: Place, Rock, and Representation (of Self and Other),"
November 29, Department of Sociology, University of Brasilia, Brazil. [P]
2005 "On Tribute: Aspects of the 'Remaking' of Rock," March 23, Department of
Sociology, University of Brasilia. [P]
2004 "Schematizing Brasiliense Rock: For an Alternative Musical Narrative of
Brasilidade," November 18, Dept. of Sociology, University of Brasilia. [P]
2003 "In Search of Musical Narratives of Brasilidade," November 15, Center for
Philosophy and the Human Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina,
Florianopolis, Brazil. [P]
2001 "The Meanings of Sound and Music in Blade Runner," April 10, Institute of
Arts, University of Brasilia. [P]
2000a "The Presentation of African Literature," May 6, Scenic Arts Department,
University of Brasilia. [P]
2000b "Rumba Lingala and the Revolution in Nationhood," May 18, Department of
Anthropology, University of Brasilia. [P]
2000c "Globalization in African Music," October 2, Department of Communications,
University of Brasilia. [P]
1999 "Rumba Lingala," April 29, Department of African Languages and Literature,
UW-Madison.
Fellowships and Awards
2006-2007a Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA.
2006-2007b Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Scholarship, UCLA.
2006a JaFran Jones Award for Best Graduate Student Paper Midwest Chapter of
the Society for Ethnomusicology.
2006b UCLA Ethnomusicology Fellowship.
2004-2005 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award, United States Department of
Education.
2003-2004 Title VI Annual Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, United
States Department of Education.
2003 UCLA Latin American Center Small Grant.
2003 UCLA Ethnomusicology Quality of Graduate Education Award.
2003 University of California Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA.
2002-2004 UCLA Ethnomusicology Fellowship.
2002 University of Chicago Century Fellowship {Declined award to attend UCLA).
1999a Title VI Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University
of Illinois.
1999b Foreign Language Enhancement Program Fellowship, University of Illinois.
1998a Title VI Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UW-
Madison.
1998b Foreign Language Enhancement Program Fellowship, UW-Madison.
1997 State of Wisconsin Musicology Fellowship, Madison, Wisconsin.
1996 Title VI Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Columbia
University, New York.
Music, Performance, and Other Experience
2009 "Mother Child Mother": Photo exhibit and audio/video installation of music,
dance, and health in Malawi. Ven Sherrod Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2009 Actor, y^t /.ast, Okemah! Chicago, Illinois.
2000-2009 Singer, X-GRANITO punk quartet. Mad Dog blues quintet, Blacl< IMaciiine
inip-hop band, and Breque-em Breque samba band. Brasilia, Brazil.
2007 Music consultant for the documentary Bomb It! (http://www.imdb.com/title/
ttl002535/fullcredits).
2006-2007 Lyrics and vocal phrasing consultant. Brasilia and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2006 Recorded jingles for radio stations. United Kingdom, Malta, and Brazil.
2003-2004 Singer, Mariachi Ensemble, BatUCLAda Brazilian Music Ensemble, and
Gospel Chorus. Los Angels, California.
1995-99 Musician (primarily kenong, slentem, celempung and singer), Kyai TIaga
Rukmi, (Javanese gamelan ), and the Amadinda & Akadinda ensemble.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Fieldwork
2009
2008
2004-5
2003a
2003b
1999a
1999b
1997
1995
1992
1990
Malawi, Health and Music, two weeks.
France and Belgium, Congolese Music and Expatriates, two weeks.
Brazil, Rock Music, eighteen months.
Brazil, Rock Music and Samba, three months.
Louisiana, Zydeco, one month.
Brazil, Popular Music, eighteen months.
Belgium and France, Congolese Music and Expatriates, three weeks.
Wisconsin, Gamelan Kyai TIaga Rukmi, four months.
Scotland, Gaelic Lullabies, three months.
Scandinavia, Folklore, three months (material for traveling folklore show
Earth on the Bread & Butter, co-created and performed 1992-93 with
Jessica Thebus of Steppenwolf Theatre Co., Chicago, Illinois).
Kenya, Fishing Customs, six months.
Languages
English: native.
Portuguese: fluent reading, writing and speaking.
Spanish: good reading, writing and speaking.
German: good reading, functional writing and speaking.
French: good reading, functional speaking.
Kiswahili (East Africa): functional reading, writing and speaking.
Lingala (Congos): functional reading, writing and speaking.
Professional Memberships
International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Society for Ethnomusicology.
Associagao Brasiliera de Etnomusicologia.
Fulbright Association.
College Music Society.
Freedom of Musical Expression (Freemuse).
Service
Society for Ethnomusicology, Council Member, 2005-2008.
Panel Chair/Discussant for "Music and Violence," Annual Meeting of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, 2008.
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia and New Zealand
Branch, Article referee, 2007.
University of Leuven, Institute for Cultural Studies, Ph.D. proposal referee, 2007.
