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Music Lecture: W. Anthony Sheppard: "Lady Gaga's Vocal Masking"

W. Anthony Sheppard
Friday, October 29, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Online at https://duke.zoom.us/j/99513184984.

W. Anthony Sheppard is Chair and Marylin & Arthur Levitt Professor of Music at Williams College. In 2019, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) named him a Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellow.

His book "Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater" (University of California Press, 2001), won the 2003 Kurt Weill Book Prize. His most recent book, "Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination," was released by Oxford University Press in 2019. He is editor of and contributor to "Sondheim in Our Time and His," to be released by OUP in November 2021.

Type: LECTURE/TALK