Davison Room, Loeb Music Library
Chanter la guerre during the Seven Years War in North America
Olivia Bloechl is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh and a Faculty Fellow at Pitt’s Humanities Center. A critical musicologist and cultural theorist, her wide-ranging interests are clustered in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century, emphasizing music/sound in French and British Atlantic empires, politics of French opera, critical Indigenist historiographies, and global musicology. She is the author of Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music (Cambridge, 2008) and Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France (Chicago, 2017), as well as a co-editor of Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship (with Melanie Lowe and Jeffrey Kallberg, Cambridge, 2015). Currently, she is co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Music History and writing a book entitled Music and Sound in the Struggle for Northeastern America, 1740-1783.