Prf Byron Dueck

Professor Of Music

byron.dueck@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Byron Dueck joined the Open University Music Department in January 2012. He was previously Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music and before that held posts as University Fellow in Music at the Open University and Coordinator of Musicology at Columbia College Chicago. He studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, where his doctoral research focused on public performances of First Nations and Métis music and dance in the western Canadian city of Winnipeg. His earlier musical studies, in piano performance, were undertaken at the University of Minnesota (MMus 1998) and Wilfrid Laurier University (BMus 1994).

Research interests

Dueck’s research interests include North American Indigenous music and dance and the music of central Cameroon. His most recent work focuses on xylophone music performed in and around Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital. His work on North American Indigenous music and dance is the subject of Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013). He was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘Online Networks and the Production of Value in Electronic Music’ project and on the AHRC-funded ‘What is Black British Jazz?’. He was also a member of the ‘Experience and Meaning in Music Performance’ group, whose research is published in the edited collection Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013). He supervises doctoral research in ethnomusicology.