Dr Kristin McGee

Senior Lecturer of Jazz and Contemporary Performance

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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
20032023

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Biography

Kristin McGee began her position in the School of Music at ANU in 2023 and currently convenes the jazz and contemporary performance program. In 2004, she began the popular music BA program within the Arts, Culture and Media Department at the University of Groningen.

She has worked as a professional musician and saxophonist in a number of groups in Chicago and Groningen including Los Toallitas, Funkadesi, The Blue Turtle Tea Party, Redmoon Puppet Theatre, The University of Chicago X-Tet, The Northwestern Big Band, the Hericane Saxophone Quartet, and the multi-arts collective Hora Est. In Groningen she led the first student big band from 2013-2017.

She was president of the Benelux chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM Benelux) from 2013-19 and has served on the board of KVNM (The Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands). She was also co-editor for a special issue on Beyoncé in Popular Music and Society and media editor of Jazz Perspectives. She is also active with the Arts in Society Research Center and the Society for Ethnomusicology.

She completed her Masters in saxophone performance at Northwestern University and her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago with a Franke dissertation writing Fellowship. She has published on jazz women, audio visual media, and the film and music industries for her book Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 (Wesleyan University Press 2009), nominated for a TLA Richard Wall Memorial Award recognizing scholarly writing on cinema and recorded performance and the American Musicological Society's Lewis Lockwood Award. Her monograph Remixing European Jazz Culture was published by Routledge in 2020.

Qualifications

MM Saxophone Performance (Northwestern University), PhD Ethnomusicology (University of Chicago)

Research Interests

Research areas include jazz within audiovisual media; aesthetic boundaries between jazz and/or as popular music; dominant gender ideologies and their impact upon musical creativity and performance praxis; women in histories and current networks of jazz making and canonization; intersectionality and critical race theories within the analysis of contemporary musical cultures; and most recently, research inspired by practice-based approaches and ecocriticism including a research project forging connections between local soundscapes, aesthetic communities, and collective musical improvisation for ecological consciousness raising in light of the climate and biodiversity crisis.

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