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April Morris focuses on 20th-century American music, identity, and the relationship between music and politics. She completed her PhD in Musicology at Western University in 2021, where her dissertation explored the influence of cultural movements on U.S. composers during the Vietnam War. Morris holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from Western University and a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Musicology from the University of Ottawa. Raised in a family of classical musicians, she has a keen interest in the role of performers in the performance of music history, particularly from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Her research interests include the collaborative relationships between composers and performers, virtuosity in the concerto genre, and the role of the audience. She has presented her research at various conferences across Canada and the United States, including meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Canadian University Music Society. In 2020, Morris was awarded the Mark Tucker Prize for her presentation at the Society for American Music’s annual conference.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.