Dr. Christina Giacona
Lecturer (Native American, World, & American Popular Musics)
Email: cgiacona@ou.edu
Dr. Christina Giacona is a Lecturer on Native American, World, and American Popular Musics and affiliate faculty for the Film and Media Department at The University of Oklahoma, a Smithsonian Folkways-certified World Music Pedagogue, and holds the Janice and Allyn Donaubauer Clarinet Chair with the Fort Smith Symphony. Fiercely dedicated to producing the music of our millennium, Christina Giacona is the former Executive Director and clarinetist of the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble and a session producer for film, classical, and popular recordings with work featured on the Centaur, TBD Records, Azica Records, and Hit City U.S.A. labels, and on movies including The Bygone, Chickasaw Rancher, and The Mustard Seed. Her current research is focused on music revivals through her work creating the Jack Frederick Kilpatrick Collection and Archive housed at the University of Oklahoma’s Western History Collection. Her textbook, The Indigenous Music of Turtle Island: Native American Music in North America, is currently available through Kendall-Hunt Publishing.
