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Christopher Bakriges Visiting Lecturer, Humanities
  • email cbakriges@massart.edu
  • phone 617-879-7600
  • education
    • PhD in Ethnomusicology/Musicology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • M.A. in World Music/Musicology, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
    • M.A. in International Politics and Economics, University of Detroit, Detroit MI
    • B.A. Honors College, University of Detroit, Detroit MI

Dr. Bakriges is active internationally, both performing and presenting research at symposia and conferences. He has published articles in the Leeds College of Music Journal, Research Proceedings Yearbook, International Association of Jazz Educators, the online Journal of the School of Visual Arts, and is a contributing author in two books published by University of Mississippi Press: Jazz Planet: Transnational Studies of the ‘Sound of Surprise,’ and “Cross the Water Blues,” and African American Music in Europe. His research interests currently focus on the interdisciplinary impact of American jazz and blues culture on global artistic media, the materials, and the technical means used by artists to create works of art.

In the Humanities Department at MassArt, Dr. Bakriges teaches Music Cultures of the World.

Areas of Specialization
Music Cultures of the World
Jazz studies – History and Repertory
Religion and spirituality
Musical Transculturation
Popular Music and Globalization

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621 Huntington Ave,
Boston, MA 02115

(617) 879-7000