Our Team
Holly Riley
Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow
Contact
- Office
- Knowles 126
- holly.riley@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours
Spring 2024:
Knowles 126
Tuesdays 1-3pm, Wednesdays 2-3pm, Fridays 2-3pm and by appointment
- Website
- https://www.hollyrileymusic.com/
Personal Summary
Dr. Holly Riley is a recent PhD graduate in Ethnomusicology from Florida State University. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow at University of Montana’s Davidson Honors College.
Her research areas include institutionalization of American vernacular musics, cultural changes in current perceptions of violence and safety in country music, and gender, identity, and power structures in music and culture. She also works professionally as a fiddle player, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and regularly teaches lessons, courses, and workshops relating to multi-genre fiddle styles, improvisation, and stylistic playing.
You can find her sitting on the front porch with a banjo or hiking with her dog Willie in her spare time.
Education
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
M.M. Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
B.M. Music Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Courses Taught
Spring 2023 Courses
American Roots Music Ensemble
Ways of Knowing
Music and Social Justice
Arts, Culture, and Social Justice in Ireland
Past Courses
MUSI 162A: American Roots Music Ensemble
MUSI 416: American Roots Music
GLI Capstone Development
MOLLI: Intro to Musicology
HONR 391: Ecomusicology: Music, Climate, and Culture
HONR 320E: Art of Inquiry
Publications
In Press
“Relational Peer Review Practices in the Honors Research Methods Classroom: Towards a Scaffolded and Multidisciplinary Model.” Honors in Practice. Co-authored with Brenna Spurling.
Published
Review: “Whisperin’ Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music.” SAM Bulletin 46, no. 3 (2022): 6.
Riley, Holly. Review of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton, by Lydia Hamessley. Contemporary Women’s Writing 15, no. 3 (2021): 422–23.
Riley, Holly. “Safe and Sound: 21st Century Country Music and Changing Perceptions of Violence.” PhD Diss. Florida State University, 2020.
Riley, Holly. “Community in the Academy: Musicianship and Transformation in University Old Time Ensembles and Local Music Scenes.” Masters Thesis, Florida State University, 2017.
Riley, Holly, Rebecca MacLeod, and Matthew Libera. “Low Latency Audio Video: Potentials for Collaborative Music Making Through Distance Learning.” Update: Applications of Research in Music Education 34, no. 3 (June 2016): 15–23.