Ingrid T. Monson
Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment; Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology
(on leave 2012-2013)
Ethnomusicology, Musicology
imonson@fas.harvard.edu
Music Building 202S
617-494-7740

Professor Monson won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for her 1996 Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. Was also a founding member of the nationally known Klezmer Conservatory Band, and plays trumpet with jazz and salsa bands.

Monson was previously Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis; she also taught at University of Michigan, Harvard (as Visiting Professor) and University of Chicago. She has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Musicology from NYU, and a B.M. from New England Conservatory. Monson just published Freedom Sounds on the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on the history of jazz, and is working on a book on the musics of the African Diaspora. She was a founding member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band.