Amanda E. Daly Berman聽(Ph. D., Ethnomusicology, Boston University, 2015) is a member of the part-time faculty at Boston College. She has also taught at Boston University, Salem State University, and Wheaton College.聽Her dissertation, 鈥淒igital Music Consumption and Social Capital Shifts within the Cape Breton Diaspora in聽Boston,鈥� utilized a hybrid methodology to create a theory of arts-centered digital social capital.聽Her research areas include the Cape Breton diaspora in greater Boston, medical ethnomusicology, digital grieving and nostalgic practices among veteran populations, music and sports, and music鈥檚 role in the war-peace-conflict spectrum.聽Her article, 鈥淢edical Ethnomusicology: Wherein Lies its Potential?,鈥� appears in聽Voices聽(2015) and she currently is preparing or has聽submitted publications on聽diasporic longing and contemporary English-language Cape Breton song, the changing soundscape of Boston鈥檚 Seaport District, veterans鈥� usage of digital media platforms for nostalgia and grieving, and digital poetics of the Cape Breton diaspora.聽She has presented in the United States and Canada at conferences for the Society for Ethnomusicology, International Association for Music and Medicine, and Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, as well as the Singing Storytellers and Sea Music Symposia, Festival 500, and Pain: Cellular to Social Implications for Music Therapy and Medicine at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and聽Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York.
Dr. Berman is a professional vocalist and has performed five times at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox. She performed the national anthem on a live ESPN broadcast of a NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. She has been a member of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir, Boston Pops Holiday Chorus, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.聽She studied voice with Joanne Mouradjian, piano with Guy Urban,聽驳别苍诲别谤听飞补测补苍驳聽gamelan with Brita Heimarck, classical聽violin with Emil Altschuler, Irish fiddle with S茅amus Connolly and Tina Lech, and Cape Breton fiddle with Andrea Beaton.聽Videos of her performances can be found on her .
