Performing and Creative Artist in Richmond, VA
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PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Advisory Board Member. Ethnomusicology Review, Volume 22. Edited by Samuel Lamontagne. University of California, Los Angeles, 2020.
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"Meet Theresa Steward." Stories and Insights, Canvas Rebel. September 17, 2024. https://canvasrebel.com/meet-theresa-steward/.
Music critic and contributing writer for Edinburgh International Festival, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Concert Seasons. Musical Criticism, Edinburgh, UK, musicalcriticism.com, 2010-2011.
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Steward, Theresa. “A Muslim in a Baptist Church: Discovering my Calling as a Sacred Musician.” In The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: the Nineteenth Century and Beyond, Part Five: Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices. Edited by Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors, August 2024.
Steward, Theresa. “Beyond a Politicization of Persian Cats: Representing Iranian Popular Musicians in the Western Media.” In Middle Journal of Culture and Communication. Edited by Mehdi Semati, May 2020.
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Steward, Theresa. Contributor. Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia. Edited by Matthew Milhalka and Andrew R. Martin. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, December 2019.
Steward, Theresa, Contributor. "The Power of Claiming: Type Nine." The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: Living Beyond Your Type. Edited by Sandra Smith. Newburyport, MA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2024.
Steward, Theresa. Contributor. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2019.
Steward, Theresa. “In Between Home and Homeland: A Study of the Iranian Musical Diaspora through Mohsen Namjoo’s ‘Cielito Lindo.’” In Popular Communications: Popular Music of Iran, Vol. 15, Issue 3. Edited by Mehdi Semati. 2017.
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Steward, Theresa. “’We Just Make Music’: Deconstructing Notions of Authenticity in the Iranian DIY Underground.” In The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global. Edited by Mike Dines and Alastair Gordon. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2019.
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IN PROGRESS
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Steward, Theresa. "'We Came From A Single Drop': Exploring Cultural Plurality and Continuity in the Rap-e FarsiDiaspora," In Popular Music and Society in Iran: New Directions. Edited by Nahid Siamdoust and Houchang Chehabi. Harvard University Press, forthcoming.