Annie Randall

Annie J. Randall has published on 18th-century German melodrama, Puccini’s operas, women in music, American protest music and 1960s British pop.

Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Musicology with cognate in German Literature, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
• M.M. in Composition, School of Music, DePaul University
• B.A. in European History 1450-1750, University of Kent at Canterbury, England, and St. Clare's Hall, Oxford, England

Teaching Interests

• Music Research Methods
• American music
• Music in political and social justice contexts
• Western European art music core survey courses
• Puccini's operas
• gender in late 18th and early 19th-century German art music

Research Interests

• American protest music ca. 1830-1970
• 1960s transatlantic popular music
• critical and cultural studies
• Puccini's operas
• "Goethe's" Weimar; 18th-century melodrama
• gender in early 19th-century European art tradition

Activities and Other Interests

Randall is former co-editor of the Music/Culture series at Wesleyan University Press, and served as Vice-President of IASPM-US (International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States branch). She was a research fellow at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.

Selected Publications

Dusty! Queen of the Postmods (Oxford, 2009)

Music, Power, and Politics(Routledge, 2005)

Puccini and ‘The Girl’: History and Reception of Girl of the Golden West (Chicago, 2004)

For more detailed information on Professor Randall's current research and teaching projects please see http://annierandall.blogs.bucknell.edu.