Jessica L. Wood, Musicology

Dissertation Title: Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History in the Postwar U.S.

Typical Courses Taught:

Education:

MA	University of Southern California	2003
BA	Pomona College	1999

Areas of Interest:: Early Music Movement
New Wave Organology
Popular Music Studies
Postwar U.S. Culture
Pop Culture
Archival Studies

Selected Conferences

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

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.

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