Victoria Lindsay Levine
(On Sabbatical 2008-09)
Professor of Music
2002-present
W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies
1999-2004
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor
1991-93
Education:
B.Mus., Music History, San Francisco State University, 1977 (Honors)
B.A., Anthropology, San Francisco State University, 1977 (Honors)
M.A., Music History, San Francisco State University, 1980
Ph.D., Musicology/Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990
Email: vlevine@coloradocollege.edu
Victoria Levine joined the faculty of Colorado College in 1988. An ethnomusicologist, she focuses her research on the musical cultures of Native North Americans. Levine has also studied Spanish New Mexican music and is an active performer of Balinese music. She is the author, co-author, or editor of seventy publications, including three books. Among her most recent publications are two chapters in The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast, edited by Raymond D. Fogelson (2004, Smithsonian Institution) and an extensive article on American Indian musics in the on-line edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2007). She held a Senior Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (1994-95) and recently received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2008-09). Other grants and awards Levine has received include the Faculty Achievement and Career Enhancement Grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (2007), the Gordon Prize from the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies (2007), a Japan Study Grant from the Great Lakes Colleges Association (2007), the Ida Halpern Fellowship from the Society for Ethnomusicology (1999), and many grants from Colorado College.
Levine currently teaches ethnomusicology courses such as World Music, Southwest American Indian Music, Indonesian Music, and Comparative Music Theory. She has directed the Summer Institute in Southwest Studies for experienced teachers (1994, 1998, 2006) and she teaches a core course for the Southwest Studies major, Arts and Cultures of the Southwest. In 1993, she founded Tunjung Sari, the CC Balinese Gamelan, directed by I Made Lasmawan. Since 2006, she has hosted a monthly Irish music session at CC, led by the band Colcannon, and in 2008 she founded the CC African Music Ensemble, co-directed by Zivanai Masango and Catherine Hunziker. Levine coordinates the music department’s ethnomusicology curriculum; she has organized public concerts by renown performers such as Anjani’s Kathak Dance of India (Los Angeles), The Traditional Arabic Music Ensemble (Toronto), and Krakatau (Java). She also brings distinguished visitors to CC from the United States and abroad to teach block courses on special topics in ethnomusicology. Levine participates in the Southwest Studies and Asian Studies interdisciplinary programs at Colorado College.
Levine is a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Council for Traditional Music, and the College Music Society.