Music and Disability Studies Q & A with Dr. Anabel Maler, Professor of Music Theory
“I’d like to suggest that songs like River Song reveal that music can be better defined as organized movement, rather than organized sound. How might this change our understanding of musical expression? What does it mean for movement to become musical?” ~ Dr. Anabel Maler
‘What if I told you I’m a mastermind?’ The Taylor Swift effect
Dr. David Metzer, UBC musicology professor on Swift’s unique brand and music, “I always joke with my classes about Wikipedia … they’re always trying to pigeon hole things into genres. But even this one defied them…I find this quite fascinating, that she’s now in a sound world which I don’t know how to classify.” / The Ubyssey
Vancouver Chamber Choir presents East / West 동과서
Program sets music from guest conductor Dr. Hyejung Jun’s native Korea side by side with Western compositions.
2024 was the ‘year of pop music.’ These are the 5 songs Vancouverites streamed most
“artists this year, and particularly young female artists, harnessed the expectations of pop music — the catchy melodies, bright vocals and conventional song structure — to deliver more sincere storytelling…” ~ UBC Professor, Musicology Dr. David Metzer / CBC News
Research and Publications: Seeing Voices by Anabel Maler
Seeing Voices by Anabel Maler looks at music creation and understanding by the Deaf community and what this can teach us about how humans engage with music.
Dr. Dylan Robinson is a new member of the Royal Society of Canada
Dr. Dylan Robinson is a new member of the Royal Society of Canada and shares about his work on addressing the appropriation of Indigenous song and culture in classical music and opera.
Dr. Anabel Maler and Dr. Robert Komaniecki receive Emerging Scholar Article Award
Their research looks at the rhythmic techniques of ‘dip hop’. A subgenre of hip hop that involves a Deaf or hard-of-hearing artists simultaneously performing vocalized and signed rapping over a looped background beat.
UBC Professor Alex Fisher awarded SSHRC Insight Grant
Dr. Fisher awarded grant for his research: Sounding Difference: The Acoustic Culture of Catholic Germany in an Age of Religious Conflict.
Wanna be like who? Meet the man who ranked every Disney song
When UBC musicologist Robert Komaniecki decided to score the cartoon tunes using complex objective criteria (and some ‘vibes’), he found some startling winners. He shows us his workings / The Guardian
UBC Professor Dr. Robert Pritchard retires from the UBC School of Music
We caught up with “Dr. Bob” to collect his thoughts on technology in the music industry, advice for students today, and how it all started with taking Greyhound bus trips from Vernon to UBC for composition lessons with Cortland Hultberg.