Musicology

Our musicology faculty contribute to new research through scholarly books and articles, public-facing podcasts and lectures, and local partnerships with libraries, theaters, and music festivals.  

Musicology research specialties include:

• the long nineteenth century, biography, gender, concert life, reception, women's musical activities, and spoken word performance
• religion, sound studies, West Africa, Islam and Sufism, secularism, race, gender, embodiment, migration, postcolonialism
• music and media, creative collaboration in multimedia, adaptation studies, twentieth and twenty-first century musicians
• music and community, recreational musical practices, American folk music, music ethnography in virtual worlds
• jazz studies, popular music, music and place, digital music sharing

Works by our faculty