Dr. Chelsea Burns

Biography

Chelsea Burns is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Chicago. Prior to her current position, she served as an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music and has also taught in the music department at Harvard University. Her research interests focus on Latin American modernist concert music and vernacular music genres, especially country and bluegrass music. She examines the ways in which economic, political, and material contexts affect analytical interpretation in music. Burns has presented papers at numerous national conferences and her forthcoming publications explore themes such as exoticism in modernism, Brazilian Indigeneity, and the evolution of country music genres. An avid bluegrass player, she is involved in the Austin bluegrass community as a board member of the Central Texas Bluegrass Association.

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