Emily Abrams Ansari
Emily Abrams Ansari is a Lecturer in Music History who focuses on 20th-century music.
Before coming to Western, she received a bachelor's degree from Durham University and an MSt from Oxford University (both in the United Kingdom). She is now completing her PhD in Historical Musicology at Harvard University.
Ms. Ansari teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century music history at Western at the undergraduate and graduate level. She is particularly interested in offering her students the chance to think about music in its social and political contexts, while simultaneously seeking an intimate understanding of the music itself.
Ms. Ansari's current scholarship examines the involvement of American composers such as Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Ulysses Kay, and Virgil Thomson in the affairs of government during the Cold War years. Her other interests include music and migration, especially the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Ernst Krenek; mid-20th-century American experimental music, especially the Fluxus movement; and portrayals of music in the media. In 2005, she undertook a study of Copland's television career, which was published in Copland and his World, edited by Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick.
E-mail: emily.ansari@uwo.ca
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