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Presenters
Siegfried
Christine Boone
Christine Boone is Associate Professor of Music at the University of
North Carolina Asheville and Visiting Associate Professor of Music at St.
Olaf College. She received a B.M. in vocal performance at Indiana
University and both an M.M. and Ph.D. in music theory at the
University of Texas. Christine’s research interests are centered around
popular music. She has presented papers on the Beatles in both the
United States and the United Kingdom. Her current research focuses on
mashups and AI, and her work on these subjects has been published in
both books and articles. She is also passionate about music theory
pedagogy, and is co-author (with Brad Osborn, University of Kansas)
of Music Theory Matters (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), a new
textbook that decenters the classical canon in favor of popular music
and music of BIPOC and women composers. Throughout her career as a
music theorist, Christine, a lyric soprano, has remained active as a
professional
soloist
in
major
works,
such
as
Haydn’s Creation, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and as a featured
soloist in the Asheville Amadeus Festival. In addition, she has put her
musical knowledge to work on NPR’s classical music game show,
“Piano Puzzler.”
Christine and Lil Bub
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