Jillian Fulton-Melanson
Anthropologist, Ethnomusicologist, Educator, Sound Studies enthusiast
Education
PhD (2021): Social Anthropology, York University
Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies
Dissertation: The Post-Tarab Soundscape: Underground Electronic Dance Music and the Arab-Canadian Diaspora
MA (2013): Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta
Thesis: Creating Modern Islam: The Sonic and Visual Experience of Muslim Moroccan Youth
BEd (2014): P/J Education, Queen’s University Additional Basic Qualifications: Senior Social Sciences
BMus (2011): Piano, Queen’s University, Kingston
International Studies Certificate
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
Resonating Restrictions: Traveling with electronic dance music between Casablanca and Montreal
Sonic Signatures: How Migrant Music Constitutes the City at Night (2023)
Post-tarab identities in diaspora: a sonic imaginary of Arab Canada
The Routledge Handbook of Middle Eastern Diasporas (2022)
Selected Speaking Engagements
14th Symposium of Mediterranean Music Studies
Cairo Music Scene(s) Since 2011: Between Political Activism and Cultural Change
Marseille, France, 2023
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting
Roundtable: Towards Ethnomusicological Understandings of Violence
New Orleans, USA, 2022
Materiality, Evidence, and Archive
Sampling Maghrebi Artistic Culture: Electronic Dance Music as Sonic Archive
York University, Toronto, Canada (virtual), 2021
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