John K. Galm

Joined Faculty in 2004
Adjunct Faculty, World Musics

Education:

M.M., B.Mus.Ed., Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Affiliation/Expertise:

John K. Galm teaches World Musics at Regis University. He is Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Galm Holds a B. Mus. Ed. and Master of Musicology from Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Doctoral studies include work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has studied with master musicians in India, Indonesia, West Africa, Turkey, Morocco and Ireland. Galm is also a former Vice-President of Percussive Arts Society. He has based his research in the study of musical instruments (organology) and music of the African Diaspora. He has studied and taught in Sénégal, (TAMA - talking drum) Gansa (Melody elaboration instrument in the Balinese Gamelon) Mrdangam - Drumming technique of South India as well as Afro-Cuban music in Cuba, Brasilian Batucada in Brasil and Andean Musics in Peru and Bolivia. In addition to the research, he has given concerts of his music in those places where he studied and also many locations in the United States. His article, Brasilian Percussion Instruments is published in the Encyclopedia of Percussion Instruments, 1995.

Galm was a participant in the conference "YOURBA ENCUENTRO" in June, 1994 in Havana, Cuba. This conference was the first official meeting of religious leaders and musicians of the Yoruba Religion and its associations since the religion was brought from Yourba Land in Nigeria by the slaves transported to the New World. Participants came from Cuba, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Brasil, Argentina and Nigeria. Prof. Galm was one of 12 participants from the United States. He retired from the University of Colorado, College of Music in May 2000 after 35 years of being a faculty member and founding the Department of Ethnomusicology. Since retiring from the University of Colorado, he has led healing drums circles at the Jonathan Goldman Sound Healing Institutes and lectured at Universities and Senior Centers in the Boulder/Denver Area.

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