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  Amy Stillman
Associate Professor

U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies
School of Music


Ph.D., Harvard, 1991


Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3765 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.763.5559
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email: akstill@umich.edu

Fields of Study: Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology.
Secondary Fields of Study: Diaspora studies, historiography of performance, popular culture, American musics.

About Amy Stillman:

Professor Stillman is a former Director of the AC Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) studies program.



Publications:

The Historical Hula’Ala’apapa (Bishop Museum Press, 1998).

“Hawaiian Hula Competitions: Event, Repertiore, Performance, Tradition,” Journal of American Folklore, v.109 no. 434, 1996).

“Sound Evidence: Conceptual Stability, Social Maintenance and Changing Performance Practices in Hawaiian Hula Songs,” The World of Music, 38:2, 199.

“Queen Kapi’olani’s Lei Chants,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 30, 1996.

“’Na Lei o Hawai’i’: On Hula Songs, Floral Emblems, Island Princesses, and Whai Pana,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 28, 1994.

“Prelude to a Comparative Investigation of Protestant Hymnody in Polynesia,” Yearbook for Traditional Music, 23, 1993).





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