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Jennifer Messelink

Department: 
Music Research
Area(s): 
Music History/Musicology
Group: 
Doctoral Student
Current research: 

My dissertation focuses on how popular music genres form and stabilize. In particular, I examine the 1950s genre of 鈥渆xotica鈥 through a historicist and genealogical lens. Exotica was a type of popular music in which artists arranged standards and original songs in an 鈥渆xotic style鈥 by adding animal sounds, Latin percussion and rhythms, and a variety of non-Western instruments. During the 1990s, a nostalgic impulse generated the 鈥渓ounge music鈥 revival in which easy listening post-war styles such as exotica were hailed as an antidote to mainstream 鈥渁lternative鈥 music. Participants in the lounge revival tended to emphasize the weirdness of this music, often portraying it as a generic anomaly that was in direct opposition鈥攇enerationally and aesthetically鈥攖o other styles of the 1950s. My dissertation reconsiders this retrospective narrative by situating exotica in a relational network of circulating sounds and styles. Broadly, I explore how musical boundaries are constructed and how these boundaries can be reevaluated thereby allowing new connections to emerge.

Program: 

Ph.D. Musicology

Graduate supervision: 

Supervisor: David Brackett

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