Kip Lornell
Ethnomusicology
klornell@gwu.edu
ext. 40243
Phillips Hall B-130
Bachelor of Science in Cultural Sciences, 1975, State University of New York Empire State College;
Master of Arts in Folklore, 1976, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Ph. D. in Ethnomusicology (Regional American Music), 1983, University of Memphis
Professor Lornell teaches courses in American music (some of which are cross-listed with American Studies) as well as ethnomusicology. In addition to teaching music courses, Dr. Lornell also serves on the Africana Studies Program Committee. Prior to teaching at GWU in 1991, Prof. Lornell had taught at the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary, and in 1995-96 he was a visiting professor at The Johns Hopkins University (Peabody Conservatory). His research in American vernacular music has resulted in the publication of over one hundred articles and record notes, nearly thirty record projects, several documentary films, and ten books---most recently Shreveport Sounds: Ark-La-Tex Music in Black & White (University Press of Mississippi 2007) . This research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1988-90 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, working with Tony Seeger at Smithsonian/Folkways. Prof. Lornell was recognized as the “Outstanding Young Alumni” in 1989 by the University of Memphis. Other awards include the 1993 ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for The Life and Legend of Leadbelly (co-authored with Charles Wolfe) a 1997 Grammy for co-authoring the notes that accompanied the Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian/Folkways). An avid volleyball player (and college official) and long-time collector of 78 rpm records, Lornell lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Kim Gandy, and their two children, Elizabeth Cady Lornell and Katherine Eleanor Gandy.
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