The Music Studies Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Lori Burns as part of the Spring 2024 Music Studies Colloquium Series. Her talk is titled “Beyond ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Division of Work, Sonic Expression, and Musical Subjectivity in Metal Duets with Clean and Harsh Vocals”

Dr. Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, merges musical analysis and cultural theory to explore representations of gender and sexuality in the lyrical, musical, and visual texts of popular music.

She has published articles in edited collections and leading journals. Her 2002 monograph, Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity, and Popular Music won the Pauline Alderman award in 2005. She is co-editor of The Pop Palimpsest with Serge Lacasse (2018), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Popular Music Video Analysis with Stan Hawkins (2019), and Analyzing Recorded Music with William Moylan and Mike Alleyne (2022); the latter collection recently received the Outstanding Multi-Authored Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory. Three additional edited collections are forthcoming:  The Routledge Handbook or Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination with Chris Anderton, The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition with Ciro Scotto, and The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song with Mike Alleyne. She was a founding Co-Editor of the Tracking Pop Series of the University of Michigan Press and is now Co-Editor of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series and Associate Editor of Music Theory Spectrum.