John Holmes McDowell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Holmes McDowell

American folklorist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1946

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: folklorist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Holmes McDowell (born 25 September 1946) is a Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.
He also serves as Director of the Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Project at Indiana University.
Broadly speaking his work is centered on performance and communication as well as the interplay of creativity and tradition.
Geographically most of his fieldwork has been in Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Ghana.
His interests include Speech play and verbal art; the corrido of Greater Mexico; music, myth, and cosmology in the Andes; commemoration; folklorization; ethnopoetics; Latin America; the United States.