Carrie Danielson

Carrie Danielson, Assistant Professor of Musicology and Les and Ruth Akers Endowed Chair in Community Music, holds the M.M. and PhD in Musicology from Florida State University and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Theory, History, and Composition from Brown University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of children’s musical cultures, community music, music and migration, care ethics, and applied ethnomusicology. Prior to her appointment at FSU, Danielson served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Folklore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Danielson’s current projects focus on music making among young Syrian and Afghan refugees in Sweden, Scandinavian-American folk music and dance in the Upper Midwest, and intergenerational musical activism in Madison, Wisconsin. Her forthcoming book project, Culture Guaranteed: Music, Migration, and Relations of Care, applies feminist care ethics to larger questions of social mobility and migration within community music and arts education programs in Sweden. She has presented her work at regional, national, and international conferences in the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, folklore, Scandinavian studies, and children’s history, and is published in The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music and a Nordic volume titled Kulturskolen som inkluderende kraft i lokalsamfunnet (The kulturskola as an inclusive force in the local community).

Danielson serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies and the Swedish-American Historical Society and is currently Co-Chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Education Section. She is an oboist, fiddler, and folk dancer who enjoys performing with Scandinavian and American Old-Time groups throughout Florida and the Upper Midwest.

Professional affiliations include memberships in the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, American Folklore Society, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, and the Swedish-American Historical Society.