Patricia Shehan Campbell

Patricia Shehan Campbell is Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology. A singer and pianist, with studies of the Japanese koto, Celtic harp, Karnatic Indian mridangam, and Bulgarian and Wagogo song, she has lectured internationally on the pedagogy of world music and children’s musical cultures. She is the author of Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities (2018), Songs in Their Heads (1998, 2010), Teaching Music Globally (2004), Lessons from the World (1991), Music in Cultural Context (1996), Musician and Teacher (2008). She is co-author of Music in Childhood (2017, 4th edition) and Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change (2017) and co-editor of the Global Music Series, Global Music Cultures (2020), and the Oxford Handbook on Children’s Musical Cultures (2013). Campbell is recipient of the 2012 Taiji Award and the 2017 Koizumi Prize for work on the preservation of traditional music through educational practice, and was designated the Senior Researcher in Music Education of the National Association for Music Education in 2002. Past chair of the Advisory Board of Smithsonian Folkways and educational consultant in the repatriation of Alan Lomax recordings to the American South, she is editor of the seven-volume series on World Music Pedagogy (2018-2021) for practicing and prospective teachers: Volume I (Early Childhood, by Sarah Watts), Volume II (Elementary Music Education, by Christopher J. Roberts and Amy C. Beegle), Volume III (Secondary School Innovations, by Karen Howard and Jamey Kelley), Volume IV (Instrumental Music Education, by Mark Montemayor, William J. Coppola, and Christopher Mena), Volume V (Choral Music Education, by Sarah J. Bartolome), Volume VI (School-Community Intersections, by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Chee Hoo Lum), and Volume VII (Teaching World Music in Higher Education, by William J. Coppola, David G. Hebert, and Patricia Shehan Campbell).