Faculty Profile for Dr. Holly Wissler
Dr. Holly Wissler
Asst Professor of Instruction — School of Music
phone: (512) 245-7820
Biography Section
Biography and Education
2009: Ph.D. in Musicology with emphasis in Ethnomusicology, Florida State UniversityDissertation: From Grief and Joy We Sing: Social and Cosmic Regenerative Processes in the Songs of Q’eros, Peru. Funding: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant
1999: M.A. Master of Arts in Music History, University of IdahoThesis: An Outsider Inside: Ritual, Music, and Dance in the Qoyllur Rit’i Festival of the Peruvian Andes.
1998: M.M. Master of Music in Classical Flute Performance, University of Idaho
Teaching Interests
Music History, World Musics, Fine Arts, EthnomusicologyResearch Interests
RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONSIndigenous Andes and Amazon culture, Inca Empire and Peru History, Applied Ethnomusicology, Indigenous Theory, Spanish, Quechua, Western Classical Music History, Deaf culture
Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Wissler, H. (2018). “’Where Dead People Walk’: Repatriation of Fifty Years of Audio-Visual Archives to Q’eros, Peru.”. In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190659806.013.6
- Wissler, H. (2015). Andes to Amazon on the River Q’eros: Indigenous Voice in Grassroots Tourism, Safeguarding, and Ownership Projects of the Q’eros and Wachiperi Peoples.”. In The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199351701.013.15
- Wissler, H. (2015). “La Comunidad Wachiperi en el Festival de Tradiciones Populares del Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., 2015. Willka Nina, (3).
- Wissler, H. (2015). “Music” and “Dance.” In Encyclopedia of the Incas (pp. 110-112 (Dance), 200-203 (Music)). Lanham, MD, U.S.: Altamira Press.
- Cantos Wachiperi.
Self-published.
2012.
Performances:
- Archives. 1964 - 2012