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Pilzer, Josh

July 25, 2008 by JoshPilzer

Josh Pilzer is currently in his second year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawa'ii and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere. read more »

Wilbourne, Emily

July 25, 2008 by EmilyWilbourne

Emily Wilbourne is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in music at Columbia University. Her work concerns the historiography of past performance, focusing on Italian theatre during the early decades of the seventeenth century. Her dissertation, “La Florinda: The Performance of Virginia Ramponi Andreini (1583-1630/1)”, explores the specific performances of gender, sexuality, class and race that were embodied by a particular commedia dell’arte actress and singer, and the impact of overlapping musical and theatrical genres on the emergence of early opera. Emily is currently the managing editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. read more »
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