Felicia Miyakawa on "I Self Lord Am Master" at the Fourth Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Conference entitled "Expressions of Islam in Contemporary African American Communities," Harvard University, April 7-8, 2012.
Felicia M. Miyakawa is Associate Professor of Musicology and Assistant Director of the MTSU School of Music. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology from Indiana University and completed B.A. degrees in both music and French at Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in both “art” and “popular” music traditions. Miyakawa’s research areas include Hip-hop music and culture, Black Nationalism, American Popular Music, African-American music and literature, gender and pedagogy, and queer studies.