Dr. Norma Coates

Biography

Norma Coates is an associate professor specializing in popular music at the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. She joined the faculty in 2005 after earning her Ph.D. from the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has been recognized in the QS World University Rankings. Coates is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research theorizes the role and relationship of women in popular music, contributing widely to international journals and anthologies. Her work is a cultural history that challenges and revises widely held beliefs about the history of popular music. Recently, her research has focused on popular music and American television in the 1980s. She actively promotes the academic study of popular music through major international organizations and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Popular Music Studies. Additionally, she is involved with the executive board of Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, and co-chairs the Sound Studies Special Interest Group within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Coates has completed a five-year term on the editorial board of the prestigious publication Cinema Journal.

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