Pamela A. Moro
Associate Professor
Phone: (503) 370-6645
E-mail: pmoro@willamette.edu
Office: Eaton Hall 416
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
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