Jennifer Iverson
Assistant Professor
Music Theory
Phone: (319) 353-2181
Office: 2775 UCC
jennifer-iverson@uiowa.edu

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Jennifer Iverson

Jennifer Iverson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was the recipient of the Livingston Dissertation Fellowship. She also holds degrees in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Northern Iowa (M.M., 2003) and the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (B.S., 2001).

Dr. Iverson’s dissertation, Historical Memory and György Ligeti’s Sound-Mass Music 1958-1968, examines the role that the musical past plays in shaping Ligeti’s characteristic sound-mass style. Her research shows how Ligeti’s sound-mass works, though they are often thought of as anomalous, respond to a set of collective concerns that are articulated in the discourses of the Darmstadt avant-garde. An article exploring the relationship between Ligeti’s acoustic work Atmosphères and his unfinished electronic work Pièce électronique Nr. 3 appears in the journal Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung (Vol. 22, April 2009).

In addition to her work on Ligeti, Dr. Iverson is active in disability studies research. She has published an analysis of the interaction between disability stereotypes, narrative, and music in the film Dancer in the Dark in the collection Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability and Music (ed. Lerner and Straus, Routledge, 2006). She is also interested in Charles Ives’ music, particularly his collage works. Dr. Iverson has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the national meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Disability Studies.

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