Current Musicology Students
Emmalouise St. Amand
STUDENT PROFILE
Emmalouise St. Amand is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology. Her research explores issues of embodiment and voice in Black girls’ singing groups of the 1950s and 60s. Her writing is forthcoming in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024), and she has presented work at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Recently, her paper “Listening in Lycra: Jazzercise Records and the Race of the Slender Body” won the Graduate Student Paper Prize from the AMS New York-St. Lawrence Chapter. Emmalouise serves on the Executive Committee of IASPM-US. Her research has been supported by the Music Library Association, the Frederick Douglass Institute, and the Susan B. Anthony Institute, where she is also a Teaching Fellow. An experienced educator, Emmalouise holds an advanced degree in vocal performance and remains active as a choral singer and voice teacher in Rochester.