Music in American Lives

Annie Janeiro Randall is a musicologist who has taught undergraduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary arts and humanities courses at Bucknell University, New York University, and Mills College. She holds a PhD in Musicology from College Conservatory of Music, (Cincinnati OH), a MMus in Music Composition from DePaul University School of Music (Chicago IL), and a B.A in Early Modern European History from University of Kent (Canterbury, England). She has published three books and eighteen peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from Puccini’s operas to 1960s British pop and U.S. protest music. In 2016 she collaborated with New York Baroque Inc. to produce the modern premiere of J.W. v. Goethe’s monodrama, Proserpina (1776), reconstructed from the original music manuscript. Annie is a former editor of the Music/Culture series at Wesleyan University Press and past vice-president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She received the American Musicological Society's Phillip Brett Book Award for Dusty! Queen of the Postmods (Oxford University Press, 2009) in addition to Distinguished Alumna awards from DePaul University and University of Cincinnati. Annie also designed and taught an award winning course in Danville PA focused on group improvisation with incarcerated youth at a juvenile detention facility.