简介

Andrea F. Bohlman is a historical musicologist who studies the recent past with a commitment to archival engagement, ethnomusicological methods, and music analysis, as well as oral history and sound studies. Her research asserts a place for music and sound in the cultural history of East Central Europe through the present. Her interdisciplinary approach to music and politics addresses diverse musical genres together in work on soundscapes of political protest, musico-socialist idealism, and the musical media of oppositional cultures. Her monograph in preparation is a study of the interaction between political action and music in Poland in the late twentieth century. She has also worked extensively on the composer Hanns Eisler and popular music in Europe, in particular the Eurovision Song Contest. Her current project is a history of sound media in twentieth century Poland that engages economies of amateur music worlds, the persistence of “old” media such as magnetic tape and radio, and audio-visual documentary practices. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an MMus from Royal Holloway, University of London, and she earned her doctorate at Harvard University in 2012. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Musicological Society, and a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Previously she taught at the University of Pennsylvania as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Music.