
Heidi Jensen
Education
- PhD: Musicology with Cognates in Anthropology and Philosophy, The University of Florida, 2022
- Dual MM: Music History and Literature and Guitar Performance, The University of New Mexico, 2015
- BA: Anthropology with Minor in Philosophy, The University of Rochester, 2003
Specialties / Areas of Interest
- Intersections of music and philosophy
- Ecomusicology
- Sound Studies
- Transmedia song and digital histories
- Junctures of technology and aesthetics
- Popular music and commercial culture as historical narrative
Courses Taught
- Music History I&II
- Sound Gathering
- Cultural Competencies
- Alfred Popular Music Ensemble
- Musical Reorientations
- Musical Infrastructures
- Introduction to Musicology and Ethnomusicology
- Music Theory I&II
- First-Year Experience
Research, Publications, & Presentations
Research & Publications
- Book Proposal: “Three Women: Piracy, Sovereignty, and the Sublimity of Song” (Book Project)
- Panel Chair, “Envisioning Climate Justice Through Folk Music,” at “Music, Sound, and Climate Justice Conversations 2022” 11/9/22
- “Soundings” at “Aesthetics and Evidence Conference” hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the UF Anthropology Department 2022
- Committee Member for “Creative Resilience Conference: Artistic Expression and Community Throughout COVID-19 2021
- “Ringing Out and Zooming In: The Collapse of Productive and Reproductive Labor” presenter/panelist American Musicological Society National Conference, Ecocriticism Study Group (Talk and Podcast) 2020
- “Gestures of Criminality and the Gist of Violence: Gestus in ‘Die Moritat vom Mackie Messer’” presenter, GAMuT Graduate Student Conference, University of North Texas 2020
- “‘You sleep, we do the work for you.’ Kurt Weill’s Surreal ‘Song of The Guns’” UF Student Society for Musicology Mini Conference 2019
- “Gestures of Criminality and the Gist of Violence: Gestus in ‘Die Moritat vom Mackie Messer’” Southern Graduate Research Symposium 2019
- Pre-Opera Lecture, “Engleburt Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel” Phillips Performing Arts Center 2018
- Presenter, “The Liminal Ideal and Liminoid Reality of Wagner's Bayreuth” American Musicological Society, Capitol Chapter Conference 2016
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