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Professor Byron Dueck

Profile summary

Professional biography

Byron Dueck joined the Open University Music Department in January 2012. He was previously Lecturer in Music 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).

Research interests

Dueck’s research interests include North American Indigenous music and dance and the music of central Cameroon. His most recent work focuses on xylophone music performed in and around Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital. His work on North American Indigenous music and dance is the subject of Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013). He was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘Online Networks and the Production of Value in Electronic Music’ project and on the AHRC-funded ‘What is Black British Jazz?’. He was also a member of the ‘Experience and Meaning in Music Performance’ group, whose research is published in the edited collection Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013). He supervises doctoral research in ethnomusicology.

Publications

Books, including edited volumes

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, eds. Experience and Meaning in Music Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, eds. Migrating Music. London: Routledge, 2011.

Articles

B. Dueck and Essele Essele Kisito. 'Authority, Deference, and Disregard in Catholic Liturgical Music in Central Cameroon'. Ethnomusicology 66/1 (2022): 21–50.

D. Allington, B. Dueck and A. Jordanous. ‘Networks of Value in Electronic Music: SoundCloud, London, and the Importance of Place’. Cultural Trends 24/3 (2015): 211–222. 

Ellington ending: Jazz Endings, Aesthetic Discourse, and Musical Publics. Black Music Research Journal 33/1 (Spring 2013): 91–115.

‘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.

Book chapters

‘Powwow and Indigenous Modernity: Traditional Music, Public Education, and Child Welfare’ in Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America, Victoria Lindsay Levine and Dylan Robinson, eds. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2019.

'Indigenous Song, the Sacred, and the Senses' in Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses, Graham Harvey and Jessica Hughes, eds. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox Publishing, 2018.

‘Imagining Identifications: How Musicians Align Their Practices with Publics’ in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Identities, Raymond MacDonald, David Hargreaves, and Dorothy Miell, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

‘Song, Participation, and Intimacy at Truth and Reconciliation Gatherings’ in Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada, Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, eds. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016.

‘Standard, Advantage and Race in British Discourse about Jazz’ in Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance, Jason Toynbee, Catherine Tackley, and Mark Doffman, eds. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014.

‘Rhythm and Role Recruitment in Manitoban Aboriginal Music’ in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

‘Civil Twilight: Country Music, Alcohol and the Spaces of Manitoban Aboriginal Sociability’ in Music, Sound, and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience, Georgina Born, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

‘“No Heartaches in Heaven”: A Response to Aboriginal Suicide’ in Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges, Anna Hoefnagels and Beverly Diamond, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.

Other publications

'Music of Indigenous North America' in Excursions in World Music, eighth edition. Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl, eds. New York: Routledge, 2020.

‘Music of Ethnic North America’ in Excursions in World Music, eighth edition. Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl, eds. New York: Routledge, 2020. Also appears in slightly different form in sixth (2011) and seventh editions (2016) of the text, published by Pearson Prentice Hall.

Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, eds. Black Music Research Journal 33/1 (Spring 2013). Special issue on Black British jazz.

See also Open Research Online for further details of Byron Dueck’s research publications.

Publications

Teaching music theory in UK higher education today: contexts and commentaries (2024-01)
Attah, Tom; Cavett, Esther; Dueck, Byron; Miller, Sue and Redhead, Lauren
Music Education Research ((Early access))


Authority, Deference, and Disregard in Catholic Liturgical Music in Central Cameroon (2022)
Dueck, Byron and Essele Essele, Kisito
Ethnomusicology, 66(1) (pp. 21-50)


North American Indigenous song, the sacred and the senses (2018-11-09)
Dueck, Byron
Body and Religion, 2(2) (pp. 206-223)


Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
Allington, Daniel; Dueck, Byron and Jordanous, Anna
Cultural Trends, 24(3) (pp. 211-222)


Jazz endings, aesthetic discourse, and musical publics (2013-04)
Dueck, Byron
Black Music Research Journal, 33(1) (pp. 91-115)


Public and intimate sociability in first nations and Métis fiddling (2007-01)
Dueck, Byron
Ethnomusicology, 51(1) (pp. 30-63)


'Suddenly a sense of being a community': Aboriginal square dancing and the experience of collectivity (2006-10)
Dueck, Byron
Musiké, 1(1) (pp. 41-58)


Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance in Manitoba (2013-12-05)
Dueck, Byron
ISBN : 978-0-19-974764-1 | Publisher : Oxford University Press | Published : New York


Powwow and Indigenous Modernities: Traditional Music, Public Education, and Child Welfare (2019-01-15)
Dueck, Byron
In: Levine, Victoria Lindsay and Robinson, Dylan eds. Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America (pp. 158-173)
ISBN : 9780819578648 | Publisher : Wesleyan University Press


North American Indigenous Song, the Sacred and the Senses (2018-09-04)
Dueck, Byron
In: Harvey, Graham and Hughes, Jessica eds. Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses (pp. 170-188)
ISBN : 9781781796818 | Publisher : Equinox Publishing Ltd.


Imagining identifications: how musicians align their practices with publics (2017)
Dueck, Byron
In: MacDonald, Raymond; Hargreaves, David J. and Miell, Dorothy eds. Handbook of Musical Identities (pp. 383-402)
ISBN : 9780199679485 | Publisher : Oxford University Press | Published : Oxford


Song, Participation, and Intimacy at Truth and Reconciliation Gatherings (2016-07)
Dueck, Byron
In: Robinson, Dylan and Martin, Keavy eds. Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (pp. 267-281)
ISBN : 9781771121699 | Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Published : Waterloo, ON, Canada


Standard, advantage, and race in British discourse about jazz (2014-09-01)
Dueck, Byron
In: Toynbee, Jason; Tackley, Catherine and Doffman, Mark eds. Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership, and Performance. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series (pp. 199-220)
ISBN : 978-1-4724-1756-5 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham


Rhythm and role recruitment in Manitoban aboriginal music (2013-11)
Dueck, Byron
In: Clayton, Martin; Dueck, Byron and Leante, Laura eds. Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
ISBN : 978-0-19-981132-8 | Publisher : Oxford University Press | Published : Oxford


Civil twilight: country music, alcohol, and the spaces of Manitoban aboriginal sociability (2013-01)
Dueck, Byron
In: Born, Georgina ed. Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience (pp. 239-256)
ISBN : 9780521764247 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge, UK


'No heartaches in Heaven': a response to aboriginal suicide (2012-03-01)
Dueck, Byron
In: Hoefnagels, Anna and Diamond, Beverley eds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series (66)
ISBN : 9780773539518 | Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press | Published : Montreal


Migrating Music (2011)
Toynbee, Jason and Dueck, Byron
In: Toynbee, Jason and Dueck, Byron eds. Migrating Music (pp. 1-18)
ISBN : 978-0-415-59448-6 | Publisher : Routledge


Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (2013-09)
Clayton, Martin; Dueck, Byron and Leante, Laura eds.
ISBN : 9780199811328 | Publisher : Oxford University Press


Migrating Music (2011-03-29)
Toynbee, Jason and Dueck, Byron eds.
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ISBN : 978-0-415-59448-6 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon