janice mahinka

Dr. Mahinka is an Associate Professor of [Ethno]Musicology. Her teaching emphasizes the musical structures and cultural contexts of music practices, building ways for all students to understand, articulate, and convey musical affect and experience. She unabashedly admits an ulterior motivation to change the world through our experiences of music. In 2018, she received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York for her outstanding dedication and inclusive teaching practices.

SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE WORK

mahinka, janice. 2018. “The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study.” PhD Dissertation, Graduate Center, CUNY.

mahinka, janice. 2018. “Salsa dura, clave, and the half-measure interruption: a multi-faceted analysis of Tommy Olivencia’s 1975 “Trucutú.” Unpublished paper presented at the City Music Analysis Conference (CityMAC 2018) and Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology 38^th annual meeting.

mahinka, janice. 2017. “Tiene Sabor: A Metaphor for the Transmission of Musical Affect.” Unpublished paper presented at The Society for Ethnomusicology 62^nd Annual Conference.

mahinka, janice. 2016. “I knew something was going to happen then, I just didn’t know what”: Hypermetric expectations in musical salsa dancers” Unpublished paper presented at The Society for Ethnomusicology 60^th annual conference.