Dr. Daniel T. Neely

I am an ethnomusicologist with a specialty in Jamaican music.  I have also written about ice cream truck music and am currently thinking through a project about music and humor.  To contact me, click on the flying monkey king in the left margin or email me at daniel.neely ( at ) nyu.edu.



Since 1998, I have studied a genre of traditional Jamaican music called mento through New York University.  In November 2007, I defended my dissertation Mento, Jamaica's Original Music: Development, Tourism and the Nationalist Frame.  For more about my research, click on the canine at the dogtrols at right.



Since 2000, I have played tenor banjo in the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra.  To visit our MySpace page (where you can hear what we sound like), click the harp and shamrock.



I currently work at the ARChive of Contemporary Music and am the Director of the New York Music Index and Archive [NYMIA].  The ARChive is the largest popular music archive in the world.  To read our blog, click the marching band.