Annegret Fauser

Books and Editions

Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, edited by Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Oxford Keynotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Writings. Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology, vol. 12. Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.

Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914. Edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Dossier de presse: The Parisian Tannhäuser (1861). Edited by Annegret Fauser, with the assistance of William Gibbons. In Francophone Music Criticism 1789-1914, School of Advanced Studies, London, 2009.

“Music & Identity.” The Musical Quarterly 89/4 (2006). Special Issue edited by Annegret Fauser and Tamara Levitz.

Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005.

Dossier de Presse parisienne: Jules Massenet, “Esclarmonde” (1889). Edited by Annegret Fauser. Heilbronn: Edition Lucie Galland, 2001.

Von Wagner zum Wagnérisme: Musik, Literatur, Kunst, Politik. Edited by Annegret Fauser and Manuela Schwartz. Vol. 12: Transfer: Die deutsch-französische Kulturbibliothek. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 1999. 

Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen 1870 und 1920. Vol. 2: Freiburger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1994.

Articles and Book Chapters

“‘L’orchestre dans les sons brave l’honnêteté…’ : Le rôle de l’élément érotique dans l’œuvre de Massenet”/“‘The Orchestra, in its Sounds, Defies Virtue…’: The Role of the Erotic in the Works of Massenet” (English translation), and “Réflexions rétrospectives”/“Retrospective Reflections” (English translation). Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales 9 (2021): “Musique et Sexualité.” https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/5467

“From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette.” In Nadia Boulanger and Her World, edited by Jeanice Brooks, 54‒84. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

“Compositeur, critique, champion de la musique américaine: les écrits d’Aaron Copland,” translated by Vincent Giroud. In La Critique musicale au XXe siècle, edited by Timothée Picard, 1105‒11. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020.

“Ensounding Trauma, Performing Commemoration: Western Music in Time of War and Tumults.” In Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, edited by Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa, 19‒40. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

“Gendered War, Mobilization, Culture and Music in the Age of World Wars.” In Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, and Sonya Rose, 410‒31. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

“Afterword: Trans/national Soundscapes in World War II.” In Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States I, edited by Pamela M. Potter, Christina Baade and Roberta Montemorra Marvin, 263‒73. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.

“Autour de Carmen: Lecture genrée de l’opéra français” (1003‒10), and (co-authored with Hervé Lacombe) “Figures et significations du travesti” (1010‒23). In Histoire de l’opéra français: Du Consulat aux débuts de la IIIème République, edited by Hervé Lacombe. Paris: Editions Fayard, 2020.

“Sound, Music, War and Violence: Listening from the Archive.” Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales. Hors série 2 (2020): “Sound, Music and Violence.” https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/4310

“Гвидо Адлер и создание Международного музыковедческого общества (IMS): Архивные материалы.” [Guido Adler and the Founding of the International Musicological Society (IMS): A View from the Archives] Vremennik Zubovskogo Instituta 7, no. 4 (2019): 97‒112.

“Nationale Narrative in der Biographik: ein transnationaler Zugang,” In Musikwissenschaft und Biographik: Narrative, Akteure, Medien, edited by Fabian Kolb, Gesa zur Nieden, and Melanie Unseld, 161‒70. Mainz: Schott Campus, 2018.

“World War II: Music as Propaganda and a Weapon of War.” In Music and War in the United States, edited by Sarah M. Kraaz, 142‒61. New York: Routledge, 2018.

“Les Troyens.” In Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia, edited by Julian Rushton, 337–44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

“French Entanglements in International Musicology during the Interwar Years,” Revue de Musicologie 103 (2017): 499–528.

“Le Sacre du Printemps: a Ballet for Paris.” In The Rite of Spring at 100, edited by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, and Gretchen Horlacher, with John Reef. Foreword by Stephen Walsh, 83–97. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

“Some Challenges for Musicological Internationalism in the 1930s” (p. 20–24), and “Edward J. Dent (1932–49)” (p. 45–49). In The History of the IMS (1927–2017), edited by Dorothea Baumann and Dinko Fabris. Basel: Bärenreiter, 2017.

“Lessons in Musical Geography: Imagining Eastern Europe in the United States during World War II.” In Music in Dark Times: Europe East and West, 1930–1950, edited by Valentina Sandu-Dediu, 19–60. Bucharest: Editura UNMB, 2016.

“The Scholar behind the Medal: Edward J. Dent (1876–1957) and the Politics of Music History.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 139 (2014): 235−60.

“Music for the Allies: Representations of Nationhood during World War II.” In Crosscurrents: American & European Music In Interaction, 1900–2000. Edited by Felix Meyer, Carol J. Oja, Wolfgang Rathert, and Anne C. Schreffler, 247–58. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer, 2014.

“Wording Notes: Musical Marginalia in the Guise of an Afterword.” In Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis, 223–27. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer, 2013.

“What’s in a Song? Camille Saint-Saëns’s Mélodies.” In Saint-Saëns and his World. Edited by Jann Pasler, 210–31. Princeton University Press, 2012.

“Presenting a Great Truth’: William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony (1930).” In Ereignis und Exegese – Musikinterpretation und Interpretation der Musik. Festschrift für Hermann Danuser. Edited by Camilla Bork, Tobias Klein, Burkhard Meischein, Andreas Meyer, and Tobias Plebuch, 644–53. Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2011.

“Cultural Musicology: New Perspectives on World War II,” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 8 (2011): 282–86. See also online edition.

“‘Dixie Carmen’: War, Race, and Identity in Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones (1943).” Journal of the Society for American Music 4 (2010): 127–74.

“Carmen in Khaki: Europäische Oper in den Vereinigten Staaten während des Zweiten Weltkrieges.” InOper im Wandel der Gesellschaft. Kulturtransfers und Netzwerke des Musiktheaters im modernen Europa. Edited by Sven Oliver Müller, Philipp Ther, Jutta Toelle, and Gesa zur Nieden, 303–29. Vienna: Oldenbourg and Böhlau, 2010.

“‘Cette musique sans tradition’: Wagner’s Tannhäuser and its French Critics.” In Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914. Edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist, 228–55. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

“Debacle at the Paris Opéra: Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861.” In Wagner and His World. Edited by Thomas S. Grey, 231–34. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

“‘Hymns of the Future’: Reading Félicien David’s Christophe Colomb as a Saint-Simonian Symphony.”Journal of Musicological Research 28 (2009): 1–29.

“‘Wagnerism’: Responses to Wagner in Music and the Arts.” In The Cambridge Companion to Wagner. Edited by Thomas Grey, 221-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

“New Media, Source-Bonding and Alienation: Listening at the 1889 Exposition Universelle.” In French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. Edited by Barbara Kelly, 40–57. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008.

“Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, and the Making of an ‘American’ Composer.” The Musical Quarterly 89 (2006), 524-55. Special Issue on “Music & Identity.” Edited by Annegret Fauser and Tamara Levitz.

“Encuentros con lo desconocido: música exótica en las Exposiciones Universales.” Translated by Luis Gago. In Mirada a Oriente. Edited by Luis Gago, 43-63. Madrid: OCNE, 2008.

“Comment devenir compositeur: Les stratégies de Lili Boulanger et ses contemporaines.” In Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger. Témoignages et études. Edited by Alexandra Laederich, 273–88. Lyon: Editions Symétrie, 2007.

“Oscarine und Reginette: ein komisches Zwischenspiel in der französischen Wagnerrezeption.” In“L’Esprit français” und die Musik Europas: Entstehung, Einfluß und Grenzen einer ästhetischen Doktrin. Festschrift für Herbert Schneider zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Michelle Biget-Mainfroy and Rainer Schmusch, 575–90. Vol. 40: Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007.

“Creating Madame Landowska,” Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 10 (2006): 1–23.

“Composer en tant que catholique : Une relecture de la musique vocale de Lili Boulanger.” Translated by Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis. Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music 26/1 (2006): 114–23.

“Histoires interrompues: raconter l’histoire de la musique en France.” Translated by Hélène Panneton. InMusique et modernité en France 1900-1950. Edited by Sylvain Caron, Michel Duchesneau, and François de Médicis, 19–50. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2006.

“Lorelei and Other Rhine Maidens.” In Music of the Sirens. Edited by Linda Austern and Inna Naroditskaya, 250–72. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

“Archéologue malgré lui: Vincent d’Indy et les usages de l’histoire.” In Vincent d’Indy et son temps. Edited by Manuela Schwartz, 122-33. Liège: Mardaga, 2006.

“Visual Pleasures-Musical Signs: Dance at the Paris Opéra.” South Atlantic Quarterly 104 (2005): 99-121.

“De arqueología musical. La música barroca y la Exposición Universal de 1889.” Translated by Luis Gago. In Concierto barroco. Estudios sobre música, dramaturgia e historia cultural. Edited by Juan José Carreras and Miguel Ángel Marín, 289-307. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja, 2004.

“Fighting in Frills: Women and the Prix de Rome in French Cultural Politics.” In Women’s Voices Across Musical Worlds. Edited by Jane Bernstein, 60-86. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.

“World Fair-World Music: Musical Politics in 1889 Paris.” In Nineteenth-Century Music Studies. Edited by Jim Samson and Bennett Zon, 179-225. London & Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

“Die Welt als Stadt: Weltausstellungen in Paris als Spiegel urbanen Musiklebens.” In Musik und Urbanität. Edited by Christian Kaden and Volker Kalisch, 139-48. Essen: Blaue Eule, 2002.

“Alterity, Nation and Identity: Some Musicological Paradoxes.” Context: A Journal of Music Research 21 (Spring 2001): 1-18.

“Phantasmagorie im deutschen Wald? Zur Freischütz-Rezeption in London und Paris 1824.” In Deutsche Meister – Böse Geister? Nationale Selbstfindung in der Musik. Edited by Hermann Danuser and Herfried Münkler, 245-73. Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2001.

“Gendering the Nations: The Ideologies of French Discourse on Music (1870-1914).” In Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture, 1800-1945. Edited by Michael Murphy and Harry White, 72-103. Cork: Cork University Press, 2001.

“Response: Directions in Musicology.” In Musicology and its Sister Disciplines. Edited by David Greer, 205-9. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

“The Songs.” In The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz. Edited by Peter Bloom, 109-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

“‘…den muss aus Liebe Schönheit töten’: Klang-Körper-Frau.” In Die Worte vergrößern: Bericht über das zweite Internationale Symposium Othmar Schoeck, Luzern, 13. und 14. August 1999. Edited by Beat A. Föllmi, 51-73. Vol. 3: Schriftenreihe der Othmar-Schoeck-Gesellschaft. Zürich: Othmar-Schoeck-Gesellschaft, 2000.

” ‘L’orchestre dans les sons brave l’honnêteté…’: Le rôle de l’élément érotique dans l’œuvre de Massenet.” In Massenet en son temps. Edited by Patrick Gillis and Gérard Condé, 156-79. St. Etienne: Association du Festival Massenet, 1999.

“Musik als ‘Lesehilfe’: Zur Rolle der Allusion in den Opern von Jules Massenet.” In Musik als Text: Bericht über den Internationalen Kongreß der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung Freiburg im Breisgau 1993. Edited by Hermann Danuser and Tobias Plebuch, 462-4. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1999.

“La Guerre en dentelles: Women and the Prix de Rome in French Cultural Politics.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 51 (1998): 83-129.

“Zwischen Professionalismus und Salon: Französische Musikerinnen des Fin de siècle.” InProfessionalismus in der Musik. Edited by Christian Kaden und Volker Kalisch, 261-74. Essen: Blaue Eule, 1998.

With Tobias Plebuch. “Gender Studies: Ein Streitgespräch.” In Gender Studies & Musik. Edited by Stefan Fragner, Jan Hemming and Beate Kutschke, 19-40. Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998.

“Lili Boulanger’s La Princesse Maleine: A Composer and Her Heroine as Literary Icons.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 122 (1997): 68-108.

“Andromède: ‘non pas une cantate de concours, mais une œuvre d’art’?” In Guillaume Lekeu & son temps: Actes du colloque de l’Université de Liège. Edited by Philippe Vendrix, 85-102. Liège: Société Liégeoise de Musicologie, 1995.

“L’art de l’allusion musicale.” L’Avant-Scène Opéra 161 (September-October 1994): 126-29.

“Femme fragile: Zu Lili Boulangers Opernfragment La Princesse Maleine.” In Vom Schweigen befreit (3. Internationales Komponistinnen-Festival Kassel): Lili Boulanger, 1893-1918. Edited by Roswitha Aulenkamp-Moeller and Christel Nies, 72-76. Kassel: Internationales Forum “Vom Schweigen befreit”, 1993.

“Esclarmonde. Un opéra wagnérien?” L’Avant-Scène Opéra 148 (September-October 1992): 68-73.

“Frankreich, Paris und die Provinz.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 152/1 (1991): 32-36.

“Die Sehnsucht nach dem Mittelalter. Ernest Chausson und Richard Wagner.” In Les Symbolistes et Richard Wagner-Die Symbolisten und Richard Wagner. Edited by Wolfgang Storch, 115-20. Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1991.

“La mélodie avec accompagnement d’orchestre en France.” In 150 Ans de Musique Française 1789-1939. Edited by François Lesure and Benoît Duteurtre, 161-71. Lyon: Actes Sud, 1991.

“Die Musik hinter der Legende. Lili Boulangers Liederzyklus Clairières dans le Ciel.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 151/11 (1990): 9-14

Ph.D. Students

I am currently advising, or have advised, the following Ph.D. dissertations:

Kevin Bartig: “Composing for the Red Screen: Sergei Prokofiev’s Film Music” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008)

Jamie Blake: “Architects of Russian America: Transnational Musical Networks Post 1917” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in progress)

Gina Bombola: “Hollywood Goes Middlebrow: The Female ‘Operatic’ Voice in Film, 1930–1955” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017)

Stephen Broad: “The Early Years of Messiaen” (D.Phil., Oxford University, 2003)

Christopher Campo-Bowen: “‘We Shall Remain Faithful’: Gender, Nationalism, and the Village Mode in Czech Opera, 1866–1916” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018)

Kimberly Francis: “Mediating Modern Music: Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010)

William Gibbons: “Eighteenth-Century Opera and the Construction of National Identity in France, 1875–1918” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010)

Catherine A. Hughes: “Branding Brussels Musically: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Interwar Years” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015)

Peter Lamothe: “Theater Music in France, 1864–1914” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008)

Alicia Levin: “Seducing Paris: Piano Virtuosos and Artistic Identity, 1820–48” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009)

Erin K. Maher: “Darius Milhaud in the United States, 1940–71: Transatlantic Constructions of Musical Identity” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016)

Allison Portnow: “Einstein, Modernism, and Musical Life in America, 1921–1945” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011)

Clair Rowden: “Massenet, Marianne and Mary: Republican Morality and Catholic Tradition at the Opera” (Ph.D., City University, London, 2002)

Ingrid Sykes: “Women Organists in France in the Nineteenth Century: Female Piety, the Public Sphere and Convent Life” (Ph.D., City University, London, 2002)

Kristen Turner: “Opera, Class, and Culture in America, 1878–1910” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015)

Jennifer Walker: “Sounding the Ralliement: Republican Reconfigurations of Catholicism in the Music of Third Republic Paris, 1880–1905”  (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2019)

Kendall Winter: “ Suffragist and Anti-Suffragist Music in the United States: 1865‒1920” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in progress)

Eduardo Tadafumi Sato: “Modernist Crossings in Brazilian Music: 1910–1954” (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in progress)

Recent Courses

Undergraduate: Introduction to Music and Dance, Music in the United States during World War II (Honors Seminar); Introduction to Women and Music (cross-listed with Women’s Studies); Sounds of War and Revolution, 1750–1850 (cross-listed with Peace, War, and Defense); Great Musical Works.

Graduate:  Alterity in Western Music, 1800 to 1945; Music and Dance on the Parisian Stage; Thinking Western Music Transnationally; Opera in fin-de-siècle Paris: Institution, Genre, and Convention.

The Page 99 Test: “Annegret Fauser’s Aaron Copland’s Aapalachian Spring,” December 5, 2017

Mary Macklam: “War, Vinyl and Print: Music for the Troops during World War II,” Featured Project, August 10, 2015. National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs

Meredith Hindley. “Impertinent Questions with Annegret Fauser,” Humanities 35 (March/April 2014): 54.

“Researcher Documents the Use of Music in War.” The State of Things, Interview with Frank
Stasio, WUNC, 14 August 2013.

Igor Contreras Zubillaga and Elsa Rieu. “Transferts culturels vécus. Entretien avec Annegret
Fauser.” Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales 3 (March 2013): Issue on “Musique et
théorie queer.”

Daniela Hermetinger: “Annegret Fauser: Von den Frauen in der Welt der Musik(wissenschaft).”
Uni:View Magazin, 14 May 2012

Mark Derewicz: “Songs as Bullets., Music as Bombs.” Endeavors. 17 February 2011.

VIDEO

Watch Dr. Fauser give a talk titled “After Pearl Harbor: Music, War and the Library of Congress” for the Music Division of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society.

Email: fauser@email.unc.edu