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Holly Riley
Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow
Contact
- Office: DHC 105
- Email: holly.riley@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours:
Tuesdays 9:30-11:00am and by appointment
- Website: www.hollyrileymusic.com
Personal Summary
Dr. Holly Riley is a recent PhD graduate in Ethnomusicology from Florida State University. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow at University of Montana’s Davidson Honors College.
Her research areas include institutionalization of American vernacular musics, cultural changes in current perceptions of violence and safety in country music, and gender, identity, and power structures in music and culture. She also works professionally as a fiddle player, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and regularly teaches lessons, courses, and workshops relating to multi-genre fiddle styles, improvisation, and stylistic playing.
You can find her sitting on the front porch with a banjo or hiking with her dog Willie in her spare time.
Education
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
M.M. Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
B.M. Music Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
