Music & Politics
Volume 14, Number 1
Winter 2020

Elizabeth Kimzey Batiuk is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include embodiment and community, the politics of performance, and dance music of the Americas and the African diaspora.

Bruce Curtis is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and History and a member of the Institute of Political Economy at Ottawa’s Carleton University. In addition to ongoing research projects on the epistemology of testimony, and on the role of intellectual debate in the decline of the Communist Party of Great Britain, he is charting the role of pleasure commerce in the emergence and diffusion of blues, jazz, and gospel music. 

Jung-Min Mina Lee is a Visiting Lecturer at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University, where she teaches courses on Korean Popular Music and Korean Politics & Society. 

Martin Nedbal is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the history of Czech and German opera. His book, titled Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven, was published by Routledge in 2017. 

Carolyn Ramzy is an Associate Professor at Carleton University. She studies the performative politics of belonging among Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Her broad research interests also include music and gender, citizenship, and religious nationalism in the region. Prior to her time at Carleton, she has consulted with the US Library of Congress Music Division and served as a Coptic music specialist for the Library of Congress World Digital Library. Her work has appeared in Ethnos: Journal for Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and in the International Journal for Middle East Studies. 

Lena Leson is a doctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan and the Assistant Editor of Music & Politics. Her research interests include 20th-century music for ballet in the United States, Europe, and Russia, and Cold War-era cultural exchange.