Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology)  Dr. Paula Conlon has been studying First Nations music and dance in Canada since the early 1980s, when she wrote her Master's thesis on the First Nations flute. In 1993, she earned the Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology from the University of Montreal; her dissertation is a semiotic analysis of 300 Inuit drum-dance songs under the guidance of Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Since moving to Oklahoma, Conlon has worked with the Payne collection of Native American flutes, and has attended a large variety of Native American ceremonials and social dances. She has written a biography of noted Native American flutist/artist Doc Tate Nevaquaya, under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press. Conlon herself gives Native American flute lecture-recitals in Norman and the surrounding area. At the University of Oklahoma, Professor Conlon teaches graduate and undergraduate world music, Native American music, and ethnomusicology classes. BA—Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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