Faculty of Music

Juniper Hill

Darwin College
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Juniper Hill

Juniper Hill is a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow hosted by Professor Nicholas Cook in the Faculty of Music. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been awarded several fellowships, including an Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, a University of California Faculty Fellowship, and a Federal Language and Area Studies Title VI Fellowship. She is currently on a two-year secondment to Cambridge University from University College Cork, where she holds a permanent lectureship.

Juniper Hill’s current research explores the inhibiting and enabling effects of different sociocultural factors on musical creativity. She is conducting cross-culturally comparative ethnographic research in three urban centers: Helsinki, Finland; Cape Town, South Africa; and Los Angeles, US. Drawing from these case studies, she hopes to make more general theoretical observations on how ideology, pedagogy, and community may have restrictive or encouraging impacts on the degrees to which individuals engage in creative activities and take creative risks. Her previous research has examined improvisation pedagogy, institutionalization of oral traditions into conservatories, transnational fusions and interethnic power dynamics, and music revivals. She has conducted field research in the Nordic countries, the Andes, and the US.

Publications

Books:

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Revivals, co-edited with Caroline Bithell. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Journal Articles:

  • “Ulkomaalaisen kokemuksia matkalta Suomalaiseen Kansanmusiikkiin.” Musiikin Suunta (published by the Finnish Ethnomusicology Society) no. 4 (2011): 53-61.
  • “The Influence of Conservatory Folk Music Programmes: The Sibelius Academy in Comparative Context.” Ethnomusicology Forum 18, no. 2 (2009): 205-239.
  • “Rebellious Pedagogy, Ideological Transformation, and Creative Freedom in Finnish Contemporary Folk Music.” Ethnomusicology 53, no. 1 (2009): 86-114.
  • “Global Folk Music’ Fusions: The Reification of Transnational Relationships and the Ethics of Cross-Cultural Appropriations in Finnish Contemporary Folk Music.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 39 (2007): 50-83.
  • “From Oppression to Opportunity to Expression: Intercultural Relations in the Indigenous Musics from an Ecuadorian Highland Community. Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 12, Fall (2006): 1-24.

Book Chapters:

  • “Innovation and Cultural Activism through the Re-imagined Pasts of Finnish Music Revivals.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music Revivals, edited by Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Imagining Creativity: An Ethnomusicological Perspective on How Belief Systems Encourage or Inhibit Creative Activities in Music.” In Musical Imaginations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Creativity, Performance and Reception, edited by David Hargreaves, Dorothy Miell and Raymond McDonald, pp. 87-104. New York: Oxford of University Press, 2012.
  • “Poikkikulttuurisen vaihdon historiaa: suomalainen ja ruotsalainen rallatus.” Laulu kulttuurisena kommunikaationa, edited by Pekka Huttu-Hiltunen, Janne Seppänen, Eila Stepanova, Frog, and Riikka Nevalainen, pp. 123-138. Kuhmo, Finland: Runosong Academy and Juminkeko, 2011.
  • “A History of Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Finnish and Swedish Diddling.” In Crossing Over: Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic, ed. Ian Russell, Anna Kearney Guigne, and Martin Lovelace, pp. 68-80. Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, in association with the Folklore Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011.
  • “Transformative Teaching Methods in Finnish Folk Music and Wilderness Education.” In Musik im interkulturellen Dialog: Festschrift für Max Peter Baumann, edited by Karoline Oehme and Nevzat Çiftçi, pp. 91-102. Bamberg, Germany: University of Bamberg, 2009.
  • “Musical Ironies in the Andes: Borrowing from the Other to Define the Self.” In Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities, edited by Ursula Hemetek, Gerda Lechleitner, Inna Naroditskaya and Anna Czekanowska, pp. 220-230. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004.

Book Reviews:

  • Review essay. The Polish Dance in Scandinavia and Poland by Marta Ramsten and Spiritual Folk Singing: Nordic and Baltic Protestant Traditions by Kirsten Sass Bak and Svend Nielsen. Ethnomusicology 52, no. 1 (2008): 132-136.

Theses:

  • From Ancient to Avant-Garde to Global: Creative Processes and Institutionalization in Finnish Contemporary Folk Music. (Supervised by Timothy Rice and Anthony Seeger.) PhD Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.
  • Empowerment through Music in Intercultural Contact in the Andes. (Supervised by Anthony Seeger.) M.A. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001.
  • Redefining Musical Tradition in the Northern Andes. (Supervised by Gage Averill.) B.A. Honors Thesis, Wesleyan University, 1998.