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Kathryn Metz

(she/her/hers)

  • Director of Musical Studies
  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Administrative Coordinator
  • Senior Lecturer

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Biography

Kathryn Metz (she/her) is Director of Musical Studies, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Administrative Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer. Prior to these roles, Kathryn served as Humanities Department Chair at Hawken Upper School in Gates Mills, Ohio (2021-2022); Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at 厙ぴ勛圖 Conservatory (2017-2021); and Manager of Community and Family Programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio (2008-2017).  

Kathryn holds her Ph.D. and M.M. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin (2010) and her B.M. in Ethnomusicology from Bowling Green State University (2001). Her doctoral research focused on popular music in the urban Amazon of Peru and her current research interests center on pop music pedagogy, music and social justice in Cleveland's music and arts communities, and education equity.

Fall 2026

The History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place CAST 106

History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place MUSY 106

Music Honors I CMUS 400

Spring 2027

Music Honors II CMUS 401

2021- Apply What? Activate Ethnomusicology from the Beginning. in Beyond The Field: Public Roles and Practices for Ethnomusicologists, Eds. Le籀n Garcia Corona and Kathleen Wiens. New York: Oxford University Press, September 2020     

2020- with Jason Hanley. The Piano Mans Artifacts in We Didnt Start the Fire: Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, March 2020

2020- How popular music scholarship can inform community engagement & K-12 education in Journal of World Popular Music. Vol. 7.1, June 2020

2015- 癒Cumbia! 癒Chicha! 癒Pandilla! M繳sica pop en la Amazon穩a urbana. In Ra繳l Romero (ed.) M繳sica popular y sociedad en el Per繳 contempor獺neo. (Lima, Peru: Instituto de Etnomusicolog穩a IDE Pontiicia Universidad Cat籀lica del Per繳)

2013- Pandillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-Cumbia in Amazonian Peru. In Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre, edited by H矇ctor Fern獺ndez LHoeste and Pablo Vila (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press), 2013

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