Music

Specializes in opera, classical music, and folk music of the U.S. and Europe

Specializes in intersection between music theory and literary and cultural theories, nineteenth-century music, program music, French music at the fin de siècle, Schenkerian analysis, memory studies, Wagner (The Ring, Lohengrin, and Parsifal), the interarts, humor, and the analysis of music-text relations in art song

An ethnomusicologist, sound curator and artist who works across the disciplines of music, anthropology sound art and composition to develop a series of experiential sound events and international curatorial residencies. Through extensive fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa, much of his creative practice takes ethnographic sound and music recordings out of archives for re-purposing back among communities.

Specializes in a performance approach to ethnographic writing and research and in an ethnographic and critical approach to performing. Since 1986, she has researched the music, dance, daily life, socioesthetics, and cultural politics of forest people (BaAka) in the Central African Republic, and has also written about urban music/dance and modernity in Bangui (the capital city).

Specializes in music and sound studies, law, and anthropology, exploring the limits and possibilities of voice, music, sound, and silence in political contexts. Previous research has been on voice and quietness in Guinea.

Specializes in Early Modern Music and Sound in Italy, Early Americas and Community Engagement