Experts at Empire State College

Catherine Ragland
Assistant Professor
Hartsdale, NY

Expertise

• World music
• Latin American and ethnic music
• Music history
• Folklore

Profile

Catherine Ragland is native of San Antonio, Texas, where she was a music and arts critic and columnist at the San Antonio Express-News for eight years. She was also a music critic and columnist for the Seattle Weekly, Seattle Times and Austin American-Statesman. She has over 14 years of experience as a staff folklorist and program director in several nationally recognized cultural and community arts organizations such as the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (Manhattan), Texas Folklife Resources (Austin), and Northwest Folklife (Seattle), where she directed the International Northwest Folklife Festival. Her forthcoming book, Ni Aquí, Ni Allá, Música Norteña and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspor,a will be published by Temple University Press in Winter, 2008. She previously taught at the Boyer School of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music history, music research and writing, world music, and ethnomusicology. She also has taught in the music department at Hunter College and in the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College.

She holds her B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in music, ethnomusicology, from the University of Washington, Seattle and her Ph.D., in music, ethnomusicology, from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.