Shayn Smulyan

  

• graduate student
• Brown University

I'm a graduate student in ethnomusicology, doing ethnographic research on contemporary Yiddish music-culture. Ethnomusicology has had a highly ambivalent relationship to both 'technology' and 'the humanities', simultaneously embracing and resisting both, and I am no exception to that ambivalence. Because the community that I work with is small and widely dispersed, I'm interested in the ways that technologies are used to connect and communicate, and the ways that they might be used better to those ends.