Matt Miller : Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
MATT MILLER
1317 Fenway Cir. ph.: 404 371 9804
Decatur, Ga. 30030 millernarian@gmail.com
Current position
Adjunct faculty, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Education
Ph.D. American Studies, Emory University, 2009
Dissertation: "Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans, 1980-2005."
Advisors: Allen Tullos, Timothy Dowd, Anna Grimshaw
B.A. Spanish, Emory University, 1992
Areas of specialization
Popular Music Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities
Publications
Books
Miller, Matt. Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press (forthcoming).
Peer-reviewed articles
Miller, Matt. "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture." In That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Murray Forman & Mark Anthony Neal, Eds.) New York: Routledge, 2010. Reprinted from Journal of Popular Music Studies 16.2: 175-212 (forthcoming).
Miller, Matt. "Bounce, Scenes, and Cultural Production: Understanding the Emergence of a Local Subgenre of Rap Music in New Orleans." Poetics special issue edited by Timothy J. Dowd (2010) (forthcoming).
Miller, Matt. "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007." Southern Spaces, 2008. http://www.southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997-2007
Miller, Matt. "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture." Journal of Popular Music Studies 16.2, 2004: 175-212.
Tullos, Allen, Matt Miller, Timothy J. Dowd. "Atlanta: City without a Sound?" Footnotes, May/June (2007), 1, 7.
Solicited book chapters and reference works
Miller, Matt. "'The Sound of Money': Atlanta, Crossroads of the Dirty South." In Hip-Hop in America: A Regional Guide, (Mickey Hess, ed.) Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2010 (pp. 467-494).
Miller, Matt. "Tropic of Bass: Culture, Commerce and Controversy in Miami Rap." In Hip-Hop in America: A Regional Guide, (Mickey Hess, ed.) Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2010 (pp. 577-604).
Miller, Matt. Entries for KnowLA, Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana, http://www.leh.org/html/knowla.html, 2010 (forthcoming): "Louisiana Rap, Hip-Hop and Bounce Music" (1500 words); "Dr. John"(1000 words); "The Neville Family" (1000 words); "Lil Wayne" (500 words); "Mystikal" (500 words); "Master P / No Limit records" (500 words); "The Meters" (500 words)
Miller, Matt. Entries for The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Vol. 12: Music (Bill C. Malone, ed.), 2008: "Dr. John" (pp. 217-218); "Meters" (pp. 291-292); "Neville Brothers" (pp. 307-308); "New Orleans Sound" (pp. 308-312); "Outkast" (pp. 313-315); "Waylon Jennings" (pp. 257-258); "Wild Magnolias" (pp. 380-381)
Miller, Matthew L. Entries for The New Georgia Encyclopedia, http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org, 2008: "OutKast" (700 words); "WAOK" (500 words); "The Tams" (500 words); "LaFace Records" (550 words; with Tiffany Boyd Adams); "Jermaine Dupri (b. 1972)" (700 words)
Other articles
Miller, Matt. "Second Line Jump: New Orleans Rap and Brass Band Music." NOLA Bounce, 2010. http://nolabounce.com/?p=449
Hopkins, Andy and Matt Miller. "Soul Harmony: Freddie Terrell Balances the Sacred and the Secular." Waxpoetics 22 (2007): 64-70.
Video and media production
Co-director (with Allen Tullos) of more than thirty videos produced as part of "Poets in Place," an ongoing series of original videos of poets reading and discussing their poems in locations they write about, published in Southern Spaces (2007-2009) http://southernspaces.org/browse/poets-in-place
Co-director (with Stephen Thomas), Ya Heard Me?, a feature-length independent documentary film on New Orleans rap music, emphasizing the dance-oriented local style called 'bounce'. Premiered at San Diego Black Film Festival, February 2, 2008.
Conference presentations
2011. "Millennium Sissy: the Gay Male Rappers of New Orleans." Southern American Studies Association Biannual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
2009. "Rap Music and the Response to Katrina." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2007. "Rap Music and Local Cultural Identity in New Orleans." Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Annual Conference, Memphis, Tennessee
2006. "Uma Perspectiva Afro-Caraíba sobre a Música Rap de Nova Orleans." Conference on Slavery and the African Diaspora, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
2006. "Mia X, 'The Ghetto Sarah Lee:' Identity, Power and Representation in the Life and Work of a Woman Gangsta Rapper from New Orleans." Conference on Hip Hop's Defiant Divas (Then and Now). Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
2003. "Rap's Dirty South." MiniConference on the Sociology of Music. Sociology of Culture Section, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Teaching (Emory University)
2009. Introduction to American Studies (American Studies 201)
2006. Introduction to Visual Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies 216)
2004. American Identities (American Studies 112)
2004. Teaching assistant to Prof. Dwight Andrews, Music 303, "Black Music: Culture, Commerce, and the Racial Imagination"
2004-2006. Participant in Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO) program
Fellowships, grants, honors and awards
2010. Participant, The Gustafson Seminar
2008-2009. Southern Spaces "Poets in Place" Graduate Fellowship for videography
2007-2008. Robert W. Woodruff Library Graduate Fellowship
2006-2007. A. Worley Brown Southern Studies Dissertation Fellowship
2002-2005. Graduate fellowship, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
2002-2005. Summer research funding, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University (total $2,500)
1997. Deacon Lunchbox Award for contributions to Atlanta's creative culture
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Departmental service
2008, 2009. Student representative, Graduate Admissions Committee
Additional relevant experience
2010. Consulting scholar for oral history/photography project, "Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop In Words And Pictures," by Alison Fensterstock andAubrey Edwards, funded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
2009-present. Founding member, the New Orleans Research Collaborative, a project to organize and provide access to scholarly materials on New Orleans http://nolaresearch.org/
2009-present. Research assistant for book project (The manuscript, by Marshall Avert, is titled Jackson, a History of the Middle of Georgia and will be submitted for publication by the Butts County Historical Society in 2010)
2008-present: freelance academic and commercial videographer
1992-present: Foreign language and multimedia cataloger, Woodruff Library, Emory University, including original Library of Congress cataloging for approximately 300 items
Specialized knowledge
Proficiency in the use of the following applications:
—Panasonic HVX-200 digital video camera operation, including sound and lighting
—Final Cut Pro video editing software
—OCLC Conexion, Cataloger’s Desktop, and related cataloging applications and resources
Experience in music composition and performance
Fluency in Spanish; reading knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, and French