Pamela Moro

History and Interests

Joined Willamette faculty in 1996, after teaching at Illinois Wesleyan University as well as state and community colleges in California. Interests include ethnomusicology, Southeast Asia (especially Thailand), gender, folklore, and religion. Recent work has focused on the classicization of music in relation to nationalism in Asia, and music of gay/lesbian choruses in the United States.

Publications

Books
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: an Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, co-editor with James Myers, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill Publishers. 2005. (538 pp.)

Thai Music and Musicians in Contemporary Bangkok, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph No. 34, University of California, Berkeley, 1993. (271 pp.)

Articles
“Defining the classical in studies of South and Southeast Asian music: a review and evaluation of pertinent scholarship,” Accepted September 2004, E-AsPac (peer-reviewed electronic journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast).

“Constructions of nation and the classicization of music: comparative perspectives from Southeast and South Asia,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35(2):187-212, 2004.

“Elite music and nationalism: how does music become classical?” Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Netherlands, July 2003.

“Building a ‘one-person minor’: anthropology in cooperation with neighboring disciplines,” Federation of Small Anthropology Programs Newsletter 3(2):2-3, 1994.

“Teachers on tape: innovation and experimentation in teaching Thai music,” Balungan 5(1):15-20, 1991.

“Musical notation in Thailand,” Journal of the Siam Society 78:101-108, 1990.

“Thai music and attitudes towards the past,” Journal of American Folklore 102:190-194, 1989.

“Names and civil service titles of Siamese musicians,” Asian Music 19(2):82-92, 1988.

“‘Songs for life’: leftist Thai popular music in the 1970s,” Journal of Popular Culture 20(3):93-113, 1986.

Book Reviews

Commissioned book reviews have been published in the following periodicals:

Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of American Folklore
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Indonesia
Crossroads: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Journal of Third World Studies

Conference Papers

Papers have been presented at meetings of the following organizations:

American Anthropological Association
American Folklore Society
Association for Asian Studies
Council on Thai Studies
Society for Ethnomusicology (national and regional)
Various regional and international Asian Studies organizations

In spring 2005, papers will be presented at meetings of the following organizations:

Society for American Music (Eugene, Oregon)
Music and the Art of Seduction (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Degrees Held

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Anthropology), 1988
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (Anthropology), 1983
B.A., University of California, Berkeley (Music), 1981