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Anna Nekola
B.A. from St. Olaf College
Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Anna joined the Communication Department Fall 2012 to teach a special topics course, Music as a Form of Communication. Anna earned her B.A. at St. Olaf College, her M.M in oboe performance at Wichita State University where she studied with Emily Pailthorpe, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her ongoing research centers on disputes over the moral and cultural value of popular musics, and she co-authored the article "Cultural Policy in American Music History: Sammy Davis, Jr., vs. Juvenile Delinquency" which appeared in the February 2010 Journal of the Society of American Music. She also authored a chapter, "U.S. Evangelicals and the Redefinition of Worship Music," in the anthology Mediating Faiths: Religion, Media and Popular Culture (Ashgate, 2011).
She has contributed several entries to the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music and her chapter "Negotiating the Tensions of U.S. Worship Music in the Marketplace" will appear in The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities.
Previous Denison classes taught by Dr. Nekola include: Intro to Queer Studies, Queer Theory, 20th c. Music History, History of Rock, Intro to World Music, FYS 101: "Music and Transcendence", FYS 101: From Holy Sabbath to Black Sabbath: Religion and Popular Music in 20th-Century America," FYS 101: "Commemoration and History: Investigating the Politics of Memory," and FYS 102: 20th-Century Images of Women."
Anna also maintains an active career as an oboist and reedmaker, and has held positions with professional orchestras in Kansas and Wisconsin.