School of Creative Arts

Suzel Reily completed her doctoral degree in Social Anthropology in 1990 at the University of Sao Paulo. During her studies she spent a year working with the late Professor John Blacking at Queen's University Belfast. Upon defending her PhD she returned to Belfast for a research fellowship which would later become a full-time permanent lectureship in 1991. She acted as Chair for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (2000-2003) and for the Society for Ethnomusicology Council (2003 - 2005). She has just returned from the University of Chicago where she held a Tinker Visiting Professorship (2007). Dr Reily acted as co-editor of the British Journal for Ethnomusicology (1998-2001) and since 2003 she has been acting as website reviews editor for the Yearbook of Traditional Music. Between 2002 and 2003, she held an ESRC research grant and is currently completing a monograph based on this material which addresses the musical life of a small former mining town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from the colonial period to the present.

Relevant Website Addresses

Music Making in Belfast: www.qub.ac.uk/sa-old/resources/Belfast_Project/index.html
Venda Girls' Initiation Schools: http://www.qub.ac.uk/VendaGirls/index.html
Holy Week Celebrations in Brazil: www.qub.ac.uk/sa-old/resources/HolyWeek/index.html