Beth Snyder

Areas of interest

Music and the Cold War, philosophy of music and aesthetics, music and migration, modernisms

Education

• PhD, Musicology, New York University
• MM, Music, The University of Texas at Austin
• MA, Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
• BA, Philosophy, Boston University

Biography

Prior to taking up her post at SFU, Beth was an Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas. She also worked as Research Associate on the multi-year UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’ project based at the Royal College of Music, London. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Twentieth-Century Music, Music & Politics, Geohumanities, and by Clemson University Press. Beth is currently writing a book (under contract with Routledge), investigating the ways musicians, musicologists, and philosophers negotiated the roles music could play in creating political community in East Germany. Her work is motivated by interests in the mobilities of musicians and musical practices, intersections between music and politics, and philosopher Ernst Bloch’s provocative theory of music’s significance to projects of social progress.