Amanda E. Daly Berman (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. Her dissertation, “Digital Music Consumption and Social Capital Shifts within the Cape Breton Diaspora in Boston,” utilized a hybrid methodology to create a theory of arts-centered digital social capital. 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 music’s role in the war-peace-conflict spectrum. Her article, “Medical Ethnomusicology: Wherein Lies its Potential?,” appears in Voices (2015) and she currently is preparing or has submitted publications on diasporic longing and contemporary English-language Cape Breton song, the changing soundscape of Boston’s Seaport District, veterans’ usage of digital media platforms for nostalgia and grieving, and digital poetics of the Cape Breton diaspora. 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 and 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. She studied voice with Joanne Mouradjian, piano with Guy Urban, gender wayang gamelan with Brita Heimarck, classical violin with Emil Altschuler, Irish fiddle with Séamus Connolly and Tina Lech, and Cape Breton fiddle with Andrea Beaton. Videos of her performances can be found on her YouTube page.