Alex Blue V, Part 2 - Black to the Future

Alex Blue V is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology at UC Santa
Barbara, and the 2019-2021 Thurgood Marshall Fellow in African and
African American Studies at Dartmouth College. He was recently
appointed as Assistant Professor of Music at the College of William
and Mary. In his new position at the College of William and Mary,
Blue will teach courses on race and music, sound studies, and
hip-hop production, and will continue his research in the areas of
sound, race, identity, and urban space. His dissertation is an
ethnographic study of hip-hop in contemporary Detroit, Michigan,
that explores narratives of death and dying and illuminates
numerous ways the creation, performance, and consumption of hip-hop
is used for spatial reorientation, identity formation, and other
means in a rapidly-changing city. He also served as a Fellow in the
2018-19 Ithaca College Predoctoral Diversity Scholars Program and
has received a number of grants and fellowships in support of his
research. Outside of his academic pursuits, Alex enjoys a very full
life as a musical “jack-of-all-trades,” working as a performer,
educator, arranger, clinician, designer, consultant, and more for a
wide variety of ensembles across a litany of musical styles. He
holds a Bachelor's in Trombone Performance from Texas Tech
University, and a Masters in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of
North Texas. Instagram: blue_tha_fiff Twitter: @alexbluev
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https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8DV32SN