Julianne Graper

Julianne Graper

Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2019
  • M.A., University of Oregon, 2014
  • B.A., Whitman College, 2010

Research interests

  • Multispecies ethnography
  • Sound studies
  • Protest music
  • The Austin Music Scene
  • Music of southern Mexico

Courses recently taught

  • Global Pop
  • Studing Ethnomusicology
  • Music, Community, Sustainability
  • World Music and Culture
  • Sound Studies
  • Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human

Publication highlights

  • “‘All Creatures Yum!:’ Cicada Mania in Southern Indiana.” European Journal of American Studies [Special Issue on Interspecies Harmony]. 2024
  • “Beyond Bat Eating: Digital Discourses about Zoonotic Disease in the COVID-19 Era” in Goldstein, D., Bridges, B., and Brillhart, R. (eds.) Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID. Denver: Utah State University Press. 2023.
  • “Bat City Limits: Music in the Human-Animal Borderlands ” In Sounds, Ecologies, Musics, edited by Aaron S. Allen and Jeff Todd Titon. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023.
  • “Bat/Man: Echolocation, Experimentation, and the Question of the Human.” Sound Studies. 2023
  • “Bat City: Becoming with Bats in the Austin Music Scene.” MUSICultures 45 (1) [Special Issue on Ecologies]: 14-34. 2019.
  • “Pussy Riot: Performing ‘Punkness’; or, Taking the ‘Riot’ out of Riot Grrrl” in Dillane, A., Power, M., Devereux, E. and Haynes, A. (eds.) Songs of Social Protest, 320-333. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. 2018.

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