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Ruth Davis
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge CB2 1RH
Tel: +44-1223 338036
e-mail: rfd11@cam.ac.uk
Ruth Davis is University Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at
Corpus Christi College. After training as a pianist at the Royal Academy of Music she graduated in Music from
King's College London; she then pursued graduate studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam and
in Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology at Princeton University. She obtained her PhD from Princeton in 1986.
In 1983, she was appointed to the first Lectureship in Ethnomusicology at the University of Cambridge.
She has published and broadcast extensively in the fields of North African and Middle Eastern music, particularly on
her original field work on mainland Tunisia and the island of Djerba. Other field locations include the UK, with
Kurdish and Iraqi musicians, Peru, Uzbekistan and Israel. In 2000, she held a Visiting Kreitman Fellowship at Ben
Gurion University, Israel, and she is currently working on a project for A-R Editions, in collaboration with the
Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, based on Robert Lachmann's writings and field
recordings in British Mandate Palestine.
She has supervised graduate students on a wide range of topics in Ethnomusicology, including PhD: (from 2005-6):
Tala Jarjour Syriac chant; Merav Rosenfeld Jewish and Islamic Paraliturgical songs; Abigail Wood
Yiddish Song from 1945 to the Present Day; Andy Nercessian The Duduk of Armenia and
the Mey of Turkey; John Plemmenos Micro-Music of the Ottoman Empire: the Case of the Phanariot Greeks of
Istanbul; Lara Allen Representation, Gender and Women in Black South African Popular Music, 1948-1960;
Henry Stobart Sounding the Seasons: Music Ideology and the Poetics of Production in an Andean Hamlet (Northern
Potosi, Bolivia); Hazel Fairbairn Group Playing in Traditional Irish Music: Interaction and Heterophony in the
Session; Colin Huehns Music of Northern Pakistan; Andrea Nixon Mongolian Musical Terminology from the
13th to the 18th Century. Co-supervisees: Susana Moreno Fernandez, University of Valladolid The rebec in
Cantabria; Ian Dent, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Technology, Human Creativity and Temporality in
Icelandic and Swedish Popular Music Culture; Elizabeth Kennerley. Faculty of Education, The use of tin pans in
British Schools. MPhil: Meghan Forsyth Reinventing 'Springs': Contemporary Composition and Performance in the
Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles. Tala Jarjour Syrian Orthodox Chant in Sadad: A Narrative of Continuity
and Change. Lisa Lermon Identity, History and Representation: the Political Songs of Tibetan Refugees in
Nepal. Jeremy Bines The Makamlar and the Turkman Dutar; Andy Nercessian The Duduk and National
Identity; Barbara Rucha Playing with Tradition. Rabih Abu-Khalil: A Lebanese Musician in Germany;
Daniel Chugg Images of Britain. A Study of the Production, Promotion and Consumption of Pop Music in Britain;
John Plemmenos Voices of Love: Phanariot Music and Musicians in the Greek "Erotos Apotelesmata"; Selina
Thielemann Musical Traditions of Vaisnava Hindu Temples in Vrindaban and Mathura: a Preliminary Survey;
Sarah Nuttal The Bhutanese Dramyen. Music and Change in the Dragon Kingdom; James Whittington The effect
of Context on Performance by the Rwais Musicians of Southwestern Morocco; John Koegel Continuity and Change
in the Musical Life of a Hispanic-American Village: Tome, New Mexico since 1739; Luke Annesley Rites and
Functions of the Mu'allem in the Gnawa Tradition in Marrakesh; Henry Stobart Mediation and Transformations.
Towards an Andean Musical Cosmology; Sean Hinton Urtyn Duu. A Preliminary Consideration of Mongol Long Song;
Robert Ehrlich The Dutch Recorder School.
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