The Music Studies Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Alyssa Barna as part of the Fall 2023 Music Studies Colloquium Series. Her talk will be titled “Social Media and the Voice in Post-Millennial Popular Music."

Alyssa Barna is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, where her dissertation explored the balance of similarity and contrast of song forms in popular music. Her current research and projects concern the analysis of form in American Top-40 music, the role and definition of parody in contemporary musics, and analyzing timbre and the voice through the lens of social media.