Cooley Timothy John, 15 October 1962 Norfolk (Virginia), American ethnomusicologist. Between 1981 and 1985, he studied vocal performance and ethnomusicology at the conservatoire in Wheaton (Illinois), and between 1986 and 1987, music history and literature at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois). From 1993, he conducted field research in Podhale (Polish Highlands); in 1999, he obtained his PhD under J.T. Titon at Brown University in Providence, based on his thesis Ethnography, Tourism and Music-Culture in the Tatra Mountains: Negotiated Representations of Polish Highlanders’ Ethnicity. Since 1999, he has been lecturing in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Folk Festivals as Modern Ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains, “The World of Music” XLI, 1999
Creating an “Authentic” Folk Music of the Polish Tatras, in: After Chopin. Essays on Polish Music, Los Angeles 2000
edited:
Shadows in the Field. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, with G.F. Barz, New York 1997
***
release of CDs with liner notes: Fire in the Mountains. Polish Mountain Fiddle Music, No. 1: The Karol Stoch Band, No. 2: The Great Highland Bands, Newton (New Jersey) 1977
