Heather Sloan
The Other World Music: Percussion as Purveyor of Cultural Cues in Exotic Louge Music
Paper Presentation
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.

Percussionist and educator, Dr. Heather Sloan’s scholarly work focuses on world and popular music. In 2000, she spent a Fulbright year in the Dominican Republic studying folkloric drumming. Currently, her interests include music of the Caribbean, and the use of percussion in bachelor-pad music of the mid-twentieth century. She resides in Greencastle, Indiana, with her husband and two small children.