Jacqueline Warwick

Musicology, Popular Music

BMus (Toronto),  MA (York), PhD (UCLA)

Email: Jacqueline.Warwick@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-1926

Office: Room 407, Dalhousie Arts Centre

Biography: Dr. Jacqueline Warwick is a musicologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Music, specializing in music history, feminist approaches, and popular music. She is Coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies programme for 2007-2010.

Her research focuses particularly on the function of popular music in negotiating gender and generation identity, and her book Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s (Rutledge, 2007) discusses the importance of 1960s girl groups such as the Shirelles, the Ronettes and the ShangriLas, both to girl culture and to rock'n'roll history. She has published articles on topics such as the Beatles, vocal aesthetics in rock singing, bhangra in the South Asian diaspora, and expressions of anger in girls' music, as well as reviews in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and The Journal of American History and Popular Musicology Online.  Together with Steven Baur and Raymond Knapp, she is a co-editor of Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Ashgate Press, 2008). She is senior editor, responsible for entries on popular music since 1945, for the forthcoming new edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. 

Dr. Warwick teaches classes on the history of rock'n'roll, music and gender, popular music analysis, music in contemporary culture, and the sequence of music history for music majors.