Jessica L. Wood, Musicology
Dissertation Title: Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History in the Postwar U.S.
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Typical Courses Taught:
- Education:
MA University of Southern California 2003 BA Pomona College 1999
- Specialties:
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Musicology
Ethnomusicology
- Research Interests:
My dissertation investigates the 1950s-70s role of the harpsichord in the United States, including the narratives, sounds, styles, building practices and commodity forms engendered by the instrument.
Current projects:
- Dissertation: "Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History in the Postwar U.S."
- Areas of Interest:
- Early Music Movement
New Wave Organology
Popular Music Studies
Postwar U.S. Culture
Pop Culture
Archival Studies
- Selected Conferences
- Building “Authenticities”: Boston School Harpsichord Apprentices and the Revival of Manual Labor, November 15, 2009, American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Personal and Technological Trajectories: Historical Time and Anachronistic Labor Among 1960s-70s Harpsichord Apprentices, April 03, 2009, Identities and Technoculture, Iowa City, IA
- Period Whispers: Staging the Harpsichord's Acoustic Disadvantage in Postwar Exotica, May, 2009, American Musical Instrument Society, Ann Arbor, MI
- Decadent Instruments and Unmarked Subjects: New England Harpsichord-Making and the Revival of Old World Heritage, October 25, 2008, Society for Ethnomusicology, Middletown CT
- Manufacturing the Primitive: Recording the “Whisperchord” in Postwar Exotica, April, 2008, Iowa City, IA, IASPM US Conference
- Organological Longings: Building Harpsichords and Feeling Nostalgic in the 1960s-70s US, October 27, 2007, Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbus, OH
- "Noise and the Canon: The Meaning of Classical Music in Psych and Prog Rock", April 26, 2007, IASPM US Conference
- "Speech, Song and Expressive Ambiguity in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", April 05, 2007, American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association Joint Conference
- "Putting the 'Bach' in Bachelor Pad: The Harpsichord in Postwar Pop", April 27, 2006, Experience Music Project Pop Conference
- "'Poop as Hard as Rock': Putting the 'Anal' in Analysis", April 15, 2005, Experience Music Project Pop Conference
- "'It's Such a Good Feeling': Speech, Song and Communicative Possibility in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", 2004, South Central Graduate Music Consortium Conference
- Selected Grant Support
- Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Award.
- Teaching Mini-Grant, Duke University.
- Franklin Humanities Institute Dissertation Working Group, Franklin Humanities Institute.
- Julian Price Endowed Dissertation Research Fellowship, Duke University.
- Research Grant, Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
- Summer Fellowship, Duke University.