Research Area: Musicology & Ethnomusicology

As an ethnomusicologist, John Walsh is broadly interested in the relationships between music and cities. Specifically, his work explores the music scene as a flexible form of collective expressive culture that articulates relations between sociality, materiality, and aesthetics. His current research focuses on contemporary music scenes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under conditions of political transformation. Walsh received …

Ilana R. Schroeder received a bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, a master’s degree in music history from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a dissertation focusing on Parisian liturgical and paraliturgical music of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. …

I am a musicologist and historian of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with a research focus on lived experience, listening cultures, and ideology. My research broadly considers the intersections between sound, technology, and geopolitics in the twentieth century. I am particularly motivated by a desire to move beyond a logocentric approach to history to …

A settler of South Asian descent, I was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Treaty 6 territory. I also sang in choirs and everywhere else. These contexts directly shape my work, however invisibly. In general, I am interested in listening, voice, practice-based ways of knowing, ecological crisis, human-nonhuman relations, and settler colonialism. Music …

Margaret Butler’s research focuses on European opera in the eighteenth century and American musical theater. A professor of musicology, she is an affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Program. Her most recent book, Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform was published by the University of Rochester Press in the Eastman Studies in Music series (2019). …