Lecture
Sounding the Tricolore: France and the United States During World War II
Annegret Fauser (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies) is a cultural musicologist whose work emphasizes how music intersects with its social, political, and artistic contexts. Her research focuses on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particularly that of France and the United States. She has published on French song and opera, women composers, exoticism, nationalism, reception history, and cultural transfer. She is author of Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen 1870 und 1920 (1994), Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair (2005), Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II (2013), and The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Writings (2015). She is the editor of several books, most recently, with Mark Everist, Stage Music and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914 (2009). From 2011−13, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
The recipient of the 2011 Edward J. Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association, Annegret Fauser was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) in 2009−10 and a Pardue Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004). In 2015−16, she is in residence at the National Humanities Center. Her publications have been recognized by major awards, including the Ruth A. Solie Award and the Music in American Culture Award of the American Musicological Society and an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the European Research Council, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.), the Fondation Nadia et Lili Boulanger, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. She is International Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia, and, in 2012, she also held an endowed guest professorship in women and gender studies, the Käthe-Leichter Gastprofessur für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, at the Universität Wien.