
Ioanida Costache
Assistant Professor of Music
Bio
Ioanida Costache is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology, and, by courtesy, Anthropology, at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Her work explores the legacies of Romani historical trauma, and the feminist critiques of the present, inscribed in Romani music, sound, and art. Her writing has been published in EuropeNow, RevistaARTA, Critical Romani Studies, and is forthcoming in European History Quarterly. Her research has been supported by two Fulbright Grants and the Council of European Studies. She has held visiting and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the USC Shoah Foundation.
Her book project, Hearing Romani-ness, examines how music structures the political and social belonging of Romani peoples in ways that reify and work against processes of identity formation and racialization. Through an ethnographic focus on Romani musicians, the project shows how intergenerational memory of Romani trauma is discreetly imbedded in sonic expressions of sorrow within a bounded repertoire that in being kept private served as a vehicle for Romani collective healing. The book puts forth a new framework for navigating how sound, when heard as affective expression, can be used for reparative purposes in the wake of persecution, while also offering an interpretive and analytic vocabulary for learning to listen for the Roma.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Music
2024-25 Courses
- Bad Sounds
MUSIC 10N (Spr) - Musical Cultures of the World
MUSIC 7B (Win) - Research Seminar in Musicology
MUSIC 310 (Win) - Sound Tracks: Music, Memory, Migration
CSRE 146S, MUSIC 146S (Spr) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Independent Study
MUSIC 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study
MUSIC 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Independent Study
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Musical Cultures of the World
MUSIC 7B (Aut) - Research Seminar in Musicology
MUSIC 310 (Win) - Sound Tracks: Music, Memory, Migration
CSRE 146S, MUSIC 146S (Spr)
- Musical Cultures of the World
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Matthew Gilbert, Lorenzo Tunesi -
Doctoral (Program)
Matthew Eshun, John Fath