Faculty and Staff
Larry Ward
Assistant Professor, Music
Tel.: (630) 942-4174
Fax: (630) 942-3490
Room: AC 134
e-mail: wardla@cod.edu
Areas of Research Interest:
• African music, especially Zimbabwean mbria music
• African-American Pentecostal music
• History of American music
Recent Courses Taught:
• Music 100 - Music Appreciation
• World music
• Humanities
• American music
• several undergraduate and graduate survey courses in music history and literature
Current Projects:
• The study of mbira music from Zimbabwe
• The study of African-American Pentecostal congregation in Champaign, IL
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
• Book review of Images: Iconography of Music in African American Culture, in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
• "Ain't Going Nowhere? The Relationship between Music and Text in Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car,'" paper presented at College Music Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2000.
• "Experiments in Music Appreciation and Interactive Television," paper published in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Directions in Music Learning Conference, San Antonio, 1998.
• "Reflections on Ethnography and Salvation in the Study of Apostolic Pentecostal Church," paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 1997.
• "Pentecostal Doctrine and Musical and Ritual Flexibility," paper published in Community of Music, Cat and Elephant Press (Champaign).
Education:
Ph.D. Musicology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A. Music Theory and Composition, University of Minnesota
B.A. Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Awards and Recognitions:
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, Central Michigan University, 1998
• Distinguished Service Award, Minority Affairs Office, Central Michigan University, 1994