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Dr. Elizabeth McLean Macy is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she teaches class on music and culture and serves as Area Coordinator for Musicology and Director of Global Music Ensembles. Macy also coordinates the Music Department's Visiting Artists Series on Music, Race, & Social Justice: https://www.msudenver.edu/music/events/music-race-social-justice/.Degree
PhD in Ethnomusicology
University of California, Los Angeles
MA in Music
University of California, Riverside
BA in Music
Colorado College
Published Works
- Macy, E., Lasmawan, I. . Sanggar Manik Galih dan Kebiasaan Musik Transnasional. (). .
- Macy, E. . Sanggar Manik Galih and Balinese Transnational Musical Practices. (). .
- Macy, E., Bridglall, L. B., Bryant, O. L., Ennis-McMillan, C. M., Layden, S., Rios, R. B., Woods, B. . Undeserved Graduates in Higher Education: Inequality and Achievement After College. (). Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Macy, M. E., Adi Hiranmayena, I. (2023). "Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia". The Collective: Shifting the Paradigm for Critical Musicians, https://thecollectiveis.us/?p=6080
- Macy, E. . “Sanggar Manik Galih: Philosophy, Metaphor, and Identity in a Transnational Balinese Music and Dance Studio". Yearbook for Traditional Music.
- Macy, M. E. (2022). Rocky Mountain Balinese Gamelan Festival. Balungan, 15(2021/22), 75-81. http://www.gamelan.org/balungan/index.html.
- Macy, M. E. (2022). "Pedagogical pivots: Engaging music and activism in my department of music". The Collective: Shifting the Paradigm for Critical Musicians, https://thecollectiveis.us/?p=5308
- Macy, M. E. (2022). ROUNDTABLE: POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND UNDERREPRESENTED VOICES IN DIASPORIC SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARTS. Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, Tainan National University of the Arts, http://ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/study%20groups/publications/PASEA%20Proceedings06_upload.pdf
- Macy, M. E. (2020). Album Review: Gamelan Joged: Bali’s orchestra of bamboo marimbas. Yearbook for Traditional Music, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/yearbook-for-traditional-music/article/abs/gamelan-joged-balis-orchestra-of-bamboo-marimbas-2014-vital-records-cd-660-recorded-annotated-and-produced-by-wayne-vitale-8page-liner-notes-bw-photographs-cd-5-tracks-7410-recorded-in-banjar-beluangan-1991/B692BB8045C1BB58B927FDBC6776FE9C
- Macy, M. E., Adi Hiranmayena, T. I. . Covid Report for Gamelan Tunas Mekar. Balungan, 142. http://www.gamelan.org/balungan/balungan14/balungan14covid.pdf .
- Macy, E. (2018). "Music and Pattern". (pp 102-5). Tang Teaching Museum and DelMonico/Prestel.
- Macy, E. (2017). “‘Can I Write It Down?’: Repetition, Imitation, and Transmission in Situ” . University Sains Malaysia, http://www.ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/study%20groups/publications/PASEA%20Proceedings04_upload.pdf
- Macy, E. (2014). Review of David D. Harnish and Anne K. Rasmussen, eds., Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia. Ethnomusicology Review, http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/divine-inspirations-music-and-islam-indonesia-edited-david-d-harnish-and-anne-k-rasmussen
- Macy, E. (2013). “Balinese Music and Cultural Tourism: Struggling into the 21st Century". Philippines: Philippine Women’s University, http://ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/study%20groups/publications/PASEA%20Proceedings02_upload.pdf
Research Interests
Music and Tourism, Music and Disaster, Music of Bali, Music of New Orleans, Transnationalism
Teaching Interests
Music, Society, and Culture; Music of Southeast Asia; Music of Indonesia; Music of Bali; Music of New Orleans; African American Musics; Global Pop; Music and Tourism; Music and Disaster; Popular Musics; Music, Race, and Class
Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 12:30-1:30pm, or by appointment