Elizabeth Macy

Associate Professor of Music

Music

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Office Hours

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 12:30-1:30pm, or by appointment

Biography

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/.

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

Education

PhD in Ethnomusicology

University of California, Los Angeles

MA in Music

University of California, Riverside

BA in Music

Colorado College

Published Works

Macy, E. (2026). Gamelan Semara Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa Live.
Macy, E. (2025). Mekar KemBali 2019: Live from Pesta Kesenian Bali.
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, 14, 72. 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.