Katherine Hagedorn
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Born | Katherine Johanna Hagedorn October 16, 1961 Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | B.A. Tufts University, Spanish, Russian and English studies, minor in classical piano; Johns Hopkins University, master's degree, international relations; Brown University, master's and PhD in ethnomusicology |
Occupation | Ethnomusicologist, Santeria priestess |
Employer | Pomona College |
Known for | Research on Afro-Cuban religious and folkloric performance |
Board member of | National Society for Ethnomusicology |
Spouse(s) | Terry Ryan |
Parent(s) | Fred and Grace Hagedorn |
Awards | White House fellow; California Professor of the Year award, 2000; Mellon New Directions Fellowship; Alan Merriam Prize, 2002 |
Katherine Johanna Hagedorn (October 16, 1961 – November 12, 2013) was an ethnomusicologist, born in Summit, New Jersey to a white family, who became a traditional Cuban drummer and Santeria priestess.
She spent her career as a Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she directed the Ethnomusicology Program, served as co-coordinator of the Gender & Women’s Studies Program, and became an associate dean. She also served as a "scholar-in-residence at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions and as a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara."[1]
Trained in languages and classical piano at Tufts University, Hagedorn earned an M.A. in Soviet Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She became a White House fellow, and worked on the Afghanistan desk at the State Department.[1]
Starting in 1989, Hagedorn traveled to Cuba to study the batá drum in Matanzas Province. There, she was initiated as a Santería priestess. At Pomona, she taught the batá drum, Tuvan throat singing, and directed a Balinese Gamelan ensemble. Her classes were described as "emphatically participatory, not to mention loud."[2]
Her best known work is Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería.[3]
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