David Verbuč, M.A., Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** I earned my Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Davis (2014). Before graduate studies in 2008, I researched Slovenian village music practices and traditions, a a music journalist for various Slovenian media (Radio Študent, Ljubljana, Nova Muska, Mlad In 2008, I issued a double CD of my own field recordings of songs from the villages of Upp Valley in North Slovenia (Gorših ljudi na svetu ni: terenski posnetki ljudskih pesmi iz Zg doline / There are No Finer People in the World: Field Recordings of Folk Songs from the U Valley). Since 2014, I work as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charle in Prague, Czech Republic, where I teach socio-cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, and courses. Furthermore, I have recently published a book DIY House Shows and Music Venues in Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community (Routledge, 2021), which is an anthropolo the relationship between place/space (DIY venues, geographies, and social spaces), and the of “intimate” communities. In addition, my articles appear in the following international journals: American Music, Communication and the Public, Ethnomusicology Forum, Journal of Ethnography (in press), Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of World Popular Music, people. They explore the topics ranging from the study of audience participation in relati theory, and ethnographic method in popular music research, to the anthropology of individu music organizers), social life of micro-media, and economic anthropology (examining the co reciprocal and capitalist configurations of American DIY music scenes). Finally, I am curr a new research project studying Roma music in north Slovenia. E-mail: david.verbuc(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz [ MAIL "david.verbuc(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz"] Research areas: Slovenian village and urban music. American DIY venues, scenes, and commun dance music cultures. DIY zines and micro-media. Roma music in north Slovenia. Research topics: music and youth cultures; music and place/space; music and community; met ethnography; music, gender, minorities; music in socialism and postsocialism; autoethnogra microhistory of family music; social life of DIY zines and micro-media; methodological gra silence and absence in Roma music research. Employment: 2014 – present: assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities (FHS), Charles University (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology). 2024 – 2025: guest researcher at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, University (part-time). 2020 – 2022: Editor-in-Chief of English editions of international urban anthropology journ Urban People. 2014 – present: assistant professor, Faculty of Humanities (FHS), Charles University in Pr of social and cultural anthropology). 2008 – 2014: graduate teaching assistant, University of California, Davis (Music Departmen Education: 2014: PhD in ethnomusicology, University of California, Davis. 2010: MA in ethnomusicology, University of California, Davis. 2007: BA in music education (specialization: ethnomusicology), Academy of Music, Ljubljana Funding & awards: 2024 – 2025. Participation in the research project “Roma musicians in Slovenia”, funded by Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS). Main research institution: Musicology Department, F Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Time frame: January 2024 – December 2025. Website muzikologijaff.si/rgs [ URL "http://muzikologijaff.si/rgs"] 2014. North California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Marnie Dilling Memoria student paper presentation (2014). Awarded for paper “’Fans or Friends?: Local/Tranlocal D (Do-It-Yourself’) Touring and DIY Community in the US.” 2012 – 2013: Bilinski fellowship for PhD writing and research. Selected publications: Books 2021. DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and C Studies in Music. New York, and London: Routledge. Articles 2024 [in press]. “Social Life of Zines and Other DIY Micro-media Constituting American DIY Scenes.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2024 [forthcoming].“Dialectic Ethnography in Theory and Practice: Living and Touring with Youth.” In Urban Music Studies: Theory and Method, edited by Alenka Barber-Keršovan, Jessi Robin Kuchar. Bristol: Intellect Publisher. 2023. “‘A Whole Society, With Its Own Economic System’: The Reciprocal and Capitalist Conf American DIY Music Scenes.” Ethnomusicology Forum 32/1. doi:10.1080/17411912.2023.2180050 2021. “Ethnography in Western Popular Music Research Revisited: A Case Study and/as a Crit Journal of World Popular Music 8/2: 207–235. 2021. “Non-musician DIY Individuals as ‘Pillars’ and ‘Icons’ of American DIY Scenes.” Amer 365–390. 2018. “Theory and Ethnography of Affective Participation at DIY ('Do-It-Yourself') Shows i Journal of Popular Music Studies 30/1–2: 79–108. 2017. “Notions of Intimate Publicness, and the American DIY Music Spaces.” Wang, Jing, and Marina, eds. Sound and the Public: A Special Issue of Communication and the Public 2/4, 28 2017. “’Houses Provide a Spatial Backbone for Virtually Everything We Do’: An Anthropologi (“do-it-yourself”) House Shows in the US.” In Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! An Approach to Scenes. Volume 3. Guerra, Paula, and Tânia Moreira, eds. Porto, Portugal: University of Po Arts and Humanities, 13–24. (http://www.kismifconference.com/en/2017/05/11/kismif-conferen proceedings-2/ [ URL "http://(http://www.kismifconference.com/en/2017/05/11/kismif-confere proceedings-2/"] ). 2016. "Prostor, družbena bližina in intimna skupnost v ameriških neodvisnih glasbenih kult Slovenskega etnološkega društva 56/1-2: 37-52. 2015. “Fans or Friends?: Local/Translocal Dialectics of DIY (‘do-it-yourself’) Touring and in the US.” Lidé města / Urban People, 17/2: 221-246 (http://www.urbanpeople.cz/archiv/cis [ URL "http://www.urbanpeople.cz/archiv/cisla/17,-2015,-2/"] ). 2013. “From Text to Context: Performance Events in Primož.” In Trapped in Folklore: Studie Dance Tradition and Their Contemporary Transformations. Kunej, Drago and Sivic, Ursa (eds) Verlag, 41–62. 2009. “Contemporary Musical Peasant Traditions in Primož, Slovenia, and the Notion of 'Nat In Voices of the Weak: Music and Minorities. Prague: Slovo21 + Faculty of Humanities of Ch Prague. Audio 2008. Gorših ljudi na svetu ni: terenski posnetki ljudskih pesmi iz Zgornje Savinjske doli No Finer People in the World: Field recordings of folk songs from the Upper Savinja Valley Library of Mozirje). Audio CD. Author of field recordings, producer, and author of liner n gorsihljudi.blogspot.com [ URL "http://gorsihljudi.blogspot.com"] ). Courses (FHS) YBAJ037 Music, Culture, and Technology YBAJ072 Cultural History of Rock and Popular Music YBA194 History of Jazz YBA201 Anthropology of Music: Fieldwork and Ethnography Seminar YBA242 Introduction to Musics of the World YBA241 Music and Youth Cultures YBA334 Anthropological Methods: Fieldwork and Ethnography Seminar YBAJ001 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology YBSA003 Seminar in Academic Skills YMA337 Music and Place/Space: Music Venues, Geographies, and Social Spaces YMA356 Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music YMA375 The Power of Cultural Representation: From Film, Media, and MTV, to Art, Museums, a