Lisa Jakelski

Biography

Lisa Jakelski’s research focuses on the intersections between musical expression and social and political practices in 20th and 21st century composition, with an emphasis on music post-1945. Her current project examines musical life in late 20th-century Poland, touching on issues such as cultural diplomacy during the Cold War, the history and reception of the postwar European avant-garde, and socialism and the arts. Her future work will continue to probe these topics, and will also reflect her interests in subjectivity and Polish film music, jazz, and musical theater. Her essay on the negotiation of avant-garde music in cold-war Poland appeared in the spring 2009 issue of the Journal of Musicology, and she presented her research at the conference “Polish Music Since 1945” held at Canterbury Christ Church University in May 2009. Jakelski majored in music and in English at the University of Georgia, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 2001. She received her master’s degree in the history and literature of music in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded her Ph.D. in 2009. She taught classes in Western Music at UC Berkeley and received numerous honors and awards for her work, including a Townsend Fellowship at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and a Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship.

Works / Publications

PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS

• “Open Windows, Open Ears: Listening at the Warsaw Autumn in the Early 1960s.” Canterbury Christ Church University, Conference, “Polish Music Since 1945,” 30 April-2 May 2009.
• “Critical Collisions: Górecki’s Scontri and Avant-Garde Music in Cold War Poland.”  Forthcoming in The Journal of Musicology, Volume 26, No. 2 (early 2009).
• “The Open Window: Listening at the Warsaw Autumn in the Early 1960s.” UC Berkeley, Working Group on the Culture and History of East Central Europe (the Krouzek), 7 May 2008.
• “Rimsky’s Forest.” UC Berkeley, Conference, “Glinka and His Legacies,” 7-10 April 2005.
• “Domestic Passions: Genre and Convention in Chaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.” San Francisco Opera Pre-Performance Lectures, November-December 2004.