Andrea Bohlman presents a talk entitled "How does a Boycott Sound?"

Bohlman, an Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a historical musicologist whose research is centered on political stakes of music making in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through her work, she asserts a place for music and sound in the cultural history of East Central Europe, particularly Poland. She is interested in the methodological challenges posed by the study of the recent past and committed to weaving together archival work, ethnomusicological methods, and close reading. Her research treats sound media as both a music historical archive as well as a documentary trail, making use of the toolboxes offered by sound and media studies. She is deeply invested in exploring the diverse musics that permeate musical cultures past and present, whether these are popular, sacred, art, or experimental. This interest in listening across and beyond boundaries is integral to her work on music and social movements, amateur sound media, and song festivals, for example. At UNC, she also integrates these interests and methodological fluencies to her teaching and advising.

Andrea Bohlman holds a B.A. from Stanford University, and an MMus from Royal Holloway, University of London. She earned her doctorate at Harvard University in 2012 after which she spent a year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Musicological Society (AMS50), and a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.