Amanda E. Daly BermanĀ (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.Ā Her dissertation, āDigital Music Consumption and Social Capital Shifts within the Cape Breton Diaspora inĀ Boston,ā utilized a hybrid methodology to create a theory of arts-centered digital social capital.Ā 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 musicās role in the war-peace-conflict spectrum.Ā Her article, āMedical Ethnomusicology: Wherein Lies its Potential?,ā appears inĀ VoicesĀ (2015) and she currently is preparing or hasĀ submitted publications onĀ diasporic longing and contemporary English-language Cape Breton song, the changing soundscape of Bostonās Seaport District, veteransā usage of digital media platforms for nostalgia and grieving, and digital poetics of the Cape Breton diaspora.Ā 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 andĀ 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.Ā She studied voice with Joanne Mouradjian, piano with Guy Urban,Ā ²µ±š²Ō»å±š°łĢż·É²¹²ā²¹²Ō²µĀ gamelan with Brita Heimarck, classicalĀ violin with Emil Altschuler, Irish fiddle with SĆ©amus Connolly and Tina Lech, and Cape Breton fiddle with Andrea Beaton.Ā Videos of her performances can be found on her .
