User:Thenthorn/Jann Pasler
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Musicologist, pianist and documentary filmmaker; Pasler has published widely on contemporary American music, French music, modernism, postmodernism, and cultural life in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Her article, "The Utility of Musical Instruments in the Racial and Colonial Agendas of Late Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 129, No. 1 (Spring 2004), won the Colin Slim award from the American Musicological Society for the best article in 2005 by a senior scholar. Recently she published Writing through Music (Oxford University Press, November 2007) and has another book in press: Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Rerpublic France (University of California Press, spring 2009). As the Frank H. Kenan Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2006-07), she worked on a new book, Music, Race, and Colonialism in Fin-de siècle France.
Pasler has presented her work at international conferences in England, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and Japan. It has been honored by three NEH fellowships, a UC President's Fellowship, and a Senior Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. In 2003-2004 she was the Flora Stone Mather Visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University and, in winter 2008, Visiting Professor at UCLA.
Her video documentaries have been shown at the Smithsonian, national meetings of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Anthropological Society. They have won film festival awards. Berkeley Media distributes them nationally and internationally.
Among numerous professional activities, at UCSD in 1982 she organized the International Stravinsky Symposium; in Paris at the CNRS in 1983-84, she helped found the Centre d'information et de documentation "Recherche Musicale;" in Paris in fall 1989, 1990, 1991, she taught in a 20th-century music doctoral program sponsored by the CNRS, IRCAM and Ecole des hautes etudes; and in fall 1994, with Philip Brett, she ran a resident research group at the UC Humanities Research Center called "Retheorizing Music." In 1995 she was Program Committee Chair of the Feminist Theory and Music III international conference and from 1995-1997 served on the Program Committee of the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society (London, August 1997). In 2001-2004 she served on the Program Committee of the national meeting of the American Musicological Society, chairing this committee in 2003-2004. She has also served as a founding member of the Editorial Board for Women and Music (1995-present), a member of the Advisory Board of 19th-Century Music, on various committees of AMS and SEM and the Board of Directors of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She reviews regularly for academic presses and scholarly journals such as JAMS and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
Currently Pasler is participating in two research groups, "French Music Criticism, 1789-1914" funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Network, Great Britain, and a French project to publish the repertoire of the Opéra, directed by Michel Noiray.
