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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Documented experience teaching private lessons, ensemble/band classes, workshops, or comparable instructional settings at the collegiate, pre-collegiate, or professional level.</div></li><li><div style=\"border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Ability to work effectively with diverse students, faculty, and staff and to support ETSU’s commitment to inclusive excellence.</div></li></ul><div style=\"border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li><div style=\"border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Master’s degree or higher in Music, Ethnomusicology, Appalachian Studies, or a closely related discipline with documented study of American vernacular or traditional music.</div></li><li><div style=\"border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Significant professional performance experience in bluegrass, old-time, country, Celtic, or related roots music, including touring, recording, or festival appearances.</div></li><li><div style=\"border-width: 0px; 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Employees must be able to perform the position's essential functions satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations.</i></span></p>",
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