Mike Levine
Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
Assistant Professor
Musicology
Ferguson Ctr Torggler 321
michael.levine@cnu.edu
mikelevinemusic.me
Education
- Ph D in Musicology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- MA in Musicology, City of University of New York - Brooklyn College
- MA in Music Technology, New York University - Steinhardt School of Education
- BA in Music Performance, Rutgers University - Livingston College
Teaching
Cuban Music / Internet Music / Popular Music / Caribbean and Latin American Popular Musics
Research
Cuban Music / Internet Studies / Popular Music
Biography
Mike Levine is an assistant professor of musicology at Christopher Newport University. His research utilizes ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Havana, Miami, and through digital platforms to investigate “el paquete semanal” (a popular USB-based internet platform in Cuba) and its relationship to improvised modes of informal music sharing and Cuban reparto music. He has written for "Sounding Out!", Hypermedia, Cuban Studies, Twentieth Century Music, and the volume Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music. He is currently drafting a monograph, Pegao: Underground Music and the Rise of Reparto in Post-Socialist Cuba, for University Press of Florida.
Selected Accomplishments
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Music Performance - Participation
"Music and Neuroscience: An Exploration of Sound and the Brain". Empire State University and Christopher Newport University. Scholes Street Studio. Brooklyn, NY.