Social Action, Technology, Music & Art
Hi, I'm Brian Hogan, PhD, an ethnomusicologist, software innovator, and drummer living in Boston, MA.
I work on software that makes a difference. I'm interested in applying computer science thinking to real world problems. I am currently CTO of the solar software company PVComplete, Inc.
I also teach courses in ethnomusicology that emphasize the relationship between music, culture and power in Africa and African American music. I am currently Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Berklee College of Music.
You can find my work out in the wilds of the web, or check out the rest of this site to view some of my previous works.
I'm always interested in new ideas and projects.
Send me an e-mail at brian@bhogan.com
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WORKS
Social Action through
Technology, Music, & Art
My work brings about change in the world by applying modern technology to important problems.
Below you'll find web applications that help create renewable energy, conserve energy and natural resources, and efficiently store energy.
You’ll also find documentary film and photography, published research, and online resources that confront discrimination and inequality in Africa.
And some musical performances just for fun.
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- software engineering
- ethnomusicology
- music
Looking for more?
Checkout some of my other works:
Commercial
warofcrypto.com
crancrafted.com
revolutionindesign.com
blindhogblades.com
discopaws.com
woodmontproperties.com
argylehousela.com
liveatcanalcrossing.com
parianlogistic.com
Music & Art
bhogan.com/music
bhogan.com/andromeda
bhogan.com/victoria_hogan
ryanparkermusicteacher.com
Ethnomusicology
birifor.org
birifor.org/photo_intro
birifor.org/a_great_man_has_gone_out
Educational
zakstein.org
risinginreading.com
Publications
2015 “They Say We Exchanged Our Eyes for the Xylophone: Resisting Tropes of Disability as Spiritual Deviance in Birifor Music.” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies. Blake Howe, S. Jensen-Moulton, N. Lerner, and J. Straus, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015 Book review of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender by Ellen Koskoff. Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. New York, NY: Eugene Lang College.
2011 “Enemy Music: Blind Birifor Xylophonists of Northwest Ghana.” Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA.
2010 Book review of The Garland Handbook of African Music, 2nd edition edited by Ruth Stone and Focus: Music of South Africa by Carol Muller. African Arts. Vol. 43/Spring 2010. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2008 “Gendered Modes of Resistance: Power and Women’s Songs in West Africa.” In The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. Vol. 13/Winter 2008. (ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu).
2008 “A Great Man Has Gone Out: The Funeral of Ghanaian Xylophonist Kakraba Lobi.” Independently produced and published short film. (birifor.org).
2006 “Ethnomusicology and the Drum Set: Musical Experience as an Emergent Property of Performative Modalities” M.A. Thesis, UCLA. (bhogan.com).
2006 “Locating the Chopi Xylophone of Southern Mozambique” in The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. Vol. 11/Winter 2006. (ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu).
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