From 1996 to 2017, PAULA CONLON taught Indigenous and world music at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Music. For two decades, she attended and participated at Indigenous music and dance events across former Indian Territory, and she incorporated these first-hand experiences into her teaching, writing, and research presentations. Dr. Conlon is currently an emerita professor working out of her hometown, Ottawa, Canada. Email: pconlon@ou.edu
Selected Publications
Conlon, Paula J, Edmond Tate Nevaquaya, and Timothy Tate Nevaquaya. Doc Tate Nevaquaya: Master Comanche Artist and Flute Player. Vancouver, BC: Tellwell Publishing, October 2024. paulajconlon.com/
Conlon, Paula. “Courtship Through Flute Song in Indigenous Southern Plains Culture.” Acoustical Society of America, 2o24. youtu.be/Sx5NjXJKANI
Conlon, Paula. “Power and Good Music: The Indigenous Southern Plains Flute Tradition.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(3) A109 (2024).
Conlon, Paula J. “The Native American Flute Tradition in the Southern Plains, Focusing on the Kiowa and Comanche Tribes.” In Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas 5, edited by Matthias Stöckli and Mark Howell, 103-121. Berlin: Ekho Verlag, 2017.
Conlon, Paula. “From Powwow to Stomp Dance: Parallel Dance Traditions in Oklahoma.” In Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199754281-e-013.
Conlon, Paula J. “Nevaquaya, Joyce Lee.” Grove Music Online, 2015. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-4002286161
Conlon, Paula J. “Powwow Times Three: Intertribal Powwow Music from Three Perspectives.” Great Plains Quarterly 35(1), 103-111. University of Nebraska Press, 2015. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570722/pdf
Conlon, Paula. “Courtship Rituals and the Native American Flute.” In Music, Dance and the Art of Seduction, edited by Frank Kouwenhoven and James Kippen, 103-114. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Conlon, Paula. “Bending or Breaking the Native American Flute Tradition?” In Oxford Handbook of Music Revival, edited by Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199765034.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199765034-e-010
Conlon, Paula. “Muscogee (Creek Nation) Stomp Dance.” In Keillor, Elaine, Timothy Archambault, and John M. H. Kelly. Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Conlon, Paula. “World Music: Contemporary Inuit Music from Arctic Canada.” World Literature Today 87(2) (March 2013): 9.
Conlon, Paula, and Paul McKenzie-Jones. “Red Power: American Indian Activism through Powwow Music and Dance.” In Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, Vol. 1: Activism in the United States, edited by Eunice Rojas and Lindsay Michie, 21-46. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC/CLIO, 2013.
Conlon, Paula. “The Native American Flute: Convergence and Collaboration as Exemplified by R. Carlos Nakai.” In – the world of music – Readings in Ethnomusicology, edited by Max Peter Baumann, 118-133. Berlin: VWB – Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2012. (Indigenous Popular Music in North America: Continuations and Innovations. The World of Music 44(1) (2002): 61-74.)
Conlon, Paula J. “American Indian Dance Theatre.” Grove Music Online, 2012. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/search?q=American+Indian+Dance+Theater&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true
Conlon, Paula. “Dance, American Indian.” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, 2009. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=DA008
Conlon, Paula. “Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs.” In Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, edited by Tara Browner, 7-20. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Conlon, Paula. “Nevaquaya, Joyce Lee.” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, 2009. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NE004
Conlon, Paula. “Comanche Flute Music Played by Doc Tate Nevaquaya, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 50403.” Journal of American Folklore 120(475) (2007): 77-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137866
Conlon, Paula. “Stomp Dance and the Green Corn Religion of the Eastern Woodland Nations in Oklahoma.” In Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present, edited by Anna Hoefnagels & Gordon E. Smith, 212-220. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Conlon, Paula. “Doc Tate Nevaquaya – Master Comanche Flute Player.” Flute Focus 12 (2007): 4-5.
Conlon, Paula. “The Pros and Cons of Teaching World Music as a General Education Course.” College Music Society Symposium (2006): 10. https://symposium.music.org/index.php/component/k2/item/3441-the-pros-and-cons-of-teaching-world-music-as-a-general-education-course?highlight=WyJjb25sb24iLCJjb25sb24ncyJd
Conlon, Paula. “Buffy Sainte-Marie.” In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishart. University of Nebraska: Lincoln Press, 2004.
Barry, Nancy H., and Paula Conlon. “Powwow in the Classroom.” Music Educators Journal 90(2) (2003): 21-26. https://doi.org/10.2307/3399930
Conlon, Paula. “Bridging the Gap Between the Folk Musician and Academia: An Alternative Approach to CSMT as Discussed with Thomas Kines.” Canadian Folk Music Journal 21, 1993.
Thistle Conlon, Paula. “Drum-Dance Songs of the Iglulik Inuit in the Northern Baffin Island Area : A Study of Their Structures.” PhD diss., Université de Montréal, 1993.
Conlon, Paula. “The Flute of the Canadian Amerindian: An Analysis of the Vertical Whistle Flute with External Block and Its Music.” Master’s thesis, Carleton University, 1983.
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