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Jessica L. Wood, Musicology

Jessica L. Wood

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

Contact Info:
Office Location:  043
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.duke.edu/~jlw7

Typical Courses Taught:

  • Music 20s, Reading Domestic Pop: Music in the Postwar Living Room Synopsis
Education:

MAUniversity of Southern California2003
BAPomona College1999
Specialties:

Musicology
Ethnomusicology
Areas of Interest:

Early Music Movement
New Wave Organology
Popular Music Studies
Postwar U.S. Culture
Pop Culture
Archival Studies

Selected Conferences

  1. Decadent Instruments and Unmarked Subjects: New England Harpsichord-Making and the Revival of Old World Heritage, October 25, 2008, Society for Ethnomusicology, Middletown CT    
  2. Manufacturing the Primitive: Recording the “Whisperchord” in Postwar Exotica, April, 2008, Iowa City, IA, IASPM US Conference    
  3. Organological Longings: Building Harpsichords and Feeling Nostalgic in the 1960s-70s US, October 27, 2007, Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbus, OH    
  4. "Noise and the Canon: The Meaning of Classical Music in Psych and Prog Rock", April 26, 2007, IASPM US Conference    
  5. "Speech, Song and Expressive Ambiguity in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", April 05, 2007, American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association Joint Conference    
  6. "Putting the 'Bach' in Bachelor Pad: The Harpsichord in Postwar Pop", April 27, 2006, Experience Music Project Pop Conference    
  7. "'Poop as Hard as Rock': Putting the 'Anal' in Analysis", April 15, 2005, Experience Music Project Pop Conference    
  8. "'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.      

harpsichord kit class blog: http://hubbardkit.blogspot.com

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