Lynn Hooker :: Faculty
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Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies Education
Ph. D. University of Chicago 2001 |
Research Interests
music and modernism, particularly in Hungary and in the careers of Béla Bartók and Franz Liszt; Eastern European minority issues, particularly those related to the Roma (Gypsies) and the minorities of Transylvania; gender in music and dance; national, transnational, and global identities, especially as seen though music.
Courses Recently Taught
- Budapest as National and International City
- Cities of East Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
- Béla Bartók: Composer in Context
- European Folk Musics (undergraduate survey)
- Tradition and Innovation in European Folk Music Scholarship (graduate seminar)
- Examining Operetta: Austro-Hungarian, French, and English Traditions and Their Echoes in America Roma (Gypsy)
- History and Culture (undergraduate survey)
- Representing the Roma in History, Music, and Film (graduate seminar)
Publication Highlights
Books
From Liszt to Bartók: Redefining Hungarian Music. Manuscript under consideration by Oxford University Press.
Articles
“The Concept of ‘Hungarian Music’ in Hungarian Musicology,” Magyar zene, forthcoming.
“Controlling the Liminal Power of Performance: Hungarian Scholars and Romani Musicians in the Hungarian Folk Revival,” Twentieth-Century Music 3, no. 1 (March 2006), 51-72.
“Modernism on the Periphery: Béla Bartók and the New Hungarian Music Society of 1911-1912,” Musical Quarterly 88, no. 2 (Summer 2005), 274-319.
“Gypsiness and Gender in the Hungarian Folkdance Revival,” Anthropology of East Europe Review 23, no. 2 (Autumn 2005), 52-62.
“Transylvania and the Politics of the Musical Imagination,” in European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 9 (2002), 45-76.
“ ‘Solving the Problem of Hungarian Music’: Contexts for Bartók’s Early Career,” International Journal of Musicology 9 (2001), 11-42.
“The political and cultural climate of turn-of-the-century Hungary,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, ed. Amanda Bayle(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 7-23.
Current Research Projects
- conceptions of Hungarian music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
- questions of race and nationality in the táncház movement in Europe and North America
- reassessing the idea of the "Gypsy musician" in Hungarian musical life
