SCHOLARSHIP
Alex's research investigates mallet percussion instruments and environmental sustainability, globalized production and consumption chains, and diverse ways of valuing musical instruments and the materials that make them. He received a Fulbright-Hays DDRA to conduct original research for eight months in Ghana (2018-2019).
Saving the Songwood: Global Consumption, Sustainability, and Value
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Published Work
“Saving the Songwood: Global Consumption, Sustainability, and Value.” Ecomusicology Review (2021). https://ecomusicology.info/smith21.
“Reconnecting the Music-Making Experience Through Musician Efforts in Instrument Craft.” International Journal of Music Education (2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0255761418771993.
“Crafting New Musical Possibilities: A New Educational Area for Academic Music?” Perspectives of New Music 54 (2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7757/persnewmusi.54.2.0219.
“Reconnecting the Actors of the Music-Making Experience: Supporting Small-Scale Local Craftsmanship in the Academic Percussion Community.” Ecomusicology Review 4 (2016). https://ecomusicology.info/reconnecting-the-music-making-experience-supporting-small-scale-local-craftsmanship-in-the-academic-percussion-community/.
“New Musical Contexts for More Sustainably Made Marimbas.” Percussive Notes Online Research Edition 1 (2016). http://www.pas.org/publications/percussive-notes-online-research-edition.
Review of George Dor’s West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: an Ethnomusicological Perspective. The Journal of Musical Arts in Africa 13, no. 1-2, 95-98.
Smith, Alex. "More Than a Marimba Bar." UCLA Echo Blog (April 27, 2015). http://www.echo.ucla.edu/more-than-a-marimba-bar/.
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