Byron Dueck joined the Open University Music Department as Lecturer in January 2012. He was previously Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and before that held posts as University Fellow in Music at the Open University and Coordinator of Musicology at Columbia College Chicago.
He studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, where his doctoral research focused on public performances of First Nations and Métis music and dance in the western Canadian city of Winnipeg. His earlier musical studies, in piano performance, were undertaken at the University of Minnesota (MMus 1998) and Wilfrid Laurier University (BMus 1994).
Dueck’s research interests include indigenous music and dance in Canada, popular music in Cameroon, and jazz performance in the United Kingdom. His work in these areas is connected by a number of overarching themes, including musical public cultures; the musical mediation of multiculturalism; and the social implications of rhythm and metre.
Dueck’s research on aboriginal music and dance will be highlighted in his forthcoming monograph, Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance in Manitoba (Oxford University Press).
Dueck was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘What is Black British Jazz?’ project and is co-editor of a 2013 special issue of the Black Music Research Journal focusing on jazz and race in the UK. He is also a member of the ‘Experience and Meaning in Music Performance’ group, whose research will be disseminated in the forthcoming edited collection Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Oxford University Press).
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Public Performances of Aboriginal Music and Dance in Manitoba. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
Clayton, Martin, Leante, Laura, and Dueck, Byron, eds. Experience and Meaning in Music Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
Toynbee, Jason and Dueck, Byron, eds. Migrating Music. London: Routledge, 2011.
‘Civil Twilight: Revisiting Places of Manitoban Indigenous Drinking in Song’ in Music, Sound, and Space: MP3, Recordings, and Tuning in to the Contemporary World, Georgina Born and Tom Rice, eds. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012.
‘Rhythm and Role Recruitment in Manitoban Aboriginal Vocal and Instrumental Music’ in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, Martin Clayton, Laura Leante, and Byron Dueck, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
‘Race, Standards, and Success: A Tangle in Discourse about Jazz’ in Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership, and Performance, Jason Toynbee, Catherine Tackley, and Mark Doffman, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming 2012.
‘“No Heartaches in Heaven”: A Manitoban Aboriginal Response to Suicide’ in Perspectives on Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Canada, Beverly Diamond, and Anna Hoefnagels, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming March 2012.
: Jazz Endings, Ideology, and Public Culture’. Black Music Research Journal, forthcoming 2013.
‘Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and Métis Fiddling’. Ethnomusicology 51/1 (2007): 30–63.
‘“Suddenly a Sense of Being a Community”: Aboriginal Square Dancing and the Experience of Collectivity’. Musiké 1 (2006): 41–58.
Review of The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980, by Gillian Mitchell. twentieth-century music 5 (2008): 263–268.
‘Ethnic North America’ in Excursions in World Music, sixth edition, Timothy Rommen, ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
See also Open Research Online for further details of Byron Dueck’s research publications.
