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TITLE: After Pearl Harbor: Music, War and the Library of Congress
SPEAKER: Annegret Fauser
EVENT DATE: 09/18/2008
RUNNING TIME: 69 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
The Music Division of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society, in joint partnership, presented the second in a series of lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the division's collections. Annegret Fauser discussed "After Pearl Harbor: Music, War and the Library of Congress."
Speaker Biography: Annegret Fauser studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat in Bonn, the Universite de la Sorbonne-Paris IV and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1992. Before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she taught musicology at the Universite Francois Rabelais in Tours, the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin and City University, London. Fauser's research focuses on music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and in particular that of France. She has published on French song and opera, French women composers, exoticism, nationalism, reception history and cultural transfer. Her publications include monographs on French orchestral song and on the roles of music during the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, and an edition of reviews of the first performance of Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde." She has also coeedited, with Manuela Schwartz, a major publication on Wagnerism in France. Currently she is writing a monograph on music in the United States during World War II, jointly editing (with Mark Everist) a volume on the institutions of French musical theater and editing the correspondence between Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland.