Faculty
Faculty List:
Steven Pond
Associate Professor and ChairMusicology (African-American musics, jazz)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
101 Lincoln Hall
Tel#: 607-255-4097
sfp8@cornell.edu
Steve Pond's scholarly interests
center on jazz and musics of the African Diaspora generally. His articles and
reviews have appeared in Ethnomusicology and the Music Library
Association's journal, Notes. His book, Herbie Hancock's Head
Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album, was published by
University of Michigan Press in 2005 and republished as a paperback in 2010. The
book was awarded the Woody Guthrie Prize for best monograph in popular music
studies by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (United
States chapter). His work generally
focuses on historiography, especially as it relates to issues of authenticity
and authority, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and other identity frameworks,
particularly as these issues. A central consideration is the politics of genre
classification.
Pond teaches graduate courses on theoretical and research issues in
ethnomusicology, as well as advanced topics in jazz, popular music, and musics
of the African Diaspora. He teaches undergraduate survey courses in these areas
as well, and he offers specialized courses in American sub-cultural musics,
post-World War II jazz, and rhythm-and-blues. He was awarded an Innovation in
Teaching development grant (the grant program's inaugural year) and was a
Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow (Spring 2006). Besides his core
involvement with the Department of Muisc, he is also on the faculty of the
American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Latino Studies Programs. He has also served as the music department's
Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is
currently Chair of the Department of Music.
Pond is active as a percussionist and drummer, and is director of Cornell's
Brazilian music group, Deixa Sambar.