Charlotte D'Evelyn
assistant professor
Office: Zankel Music Center
Phone: (518) 580 - 5337
Email: cdevelyn@skidmore.edu
Charlotte D’Evelyn (PhD University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2013) has spent over a decade studying music and the politics of ethnicity in Inner Mongolia, China. Her career as an ethnomusicologist began in 2002 when she first visited China for language exchange and began her studies of the Chinese erhu (two-string fiddle). Her curiosity for this instrument launched her into a life-long interest in spike fiddles and music cultures of the silk road(s). Her research on the Mongolian morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) ultimately landed her in Inner Mongolia, China, where she visits regularly and conducts research on fiddles and vocal traditions at the China-Mongolia border. Together with Jennifer Post and Sunmin Yoon, she is co-editor of the 2022 volume Mongolian Sound Worlds, winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology Klaus Wachsmann Prize. Her monograph project investigates issues of cultural in-betweenness in Inner Mongolia and musical strategies that young Inner Mongols employ to gain local and global audibility. She teaches a variety of interdisciplinary courses (such as Thinking Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Music, Cross-Cultural Listening, and Global Pop) and directs two ensembles (Chinese Ensemble and Mongolia Ensemble).