Society for Music Research
Yiqing Mitty Ma
Music Theory
Yiqing Ma is a Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory. Her research interests are the intersections between music and language, body, performance, gender, and intersectional identities. These inquiries include intersections of feminist theory, critical theory, timbre, and voice in Japanese popular music and contemporary music, as well as the global history of music theory exchanges between East Asia and the West, reflected in her current dissertation project. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota and then received her M.M. from LSU. She recently published her empirical work focused on emotional perceptions of lyrics on MUSICÆ SCIENTIÆ. Mitty enjoys playing with her cat cereal outside academia, as well as playing the carillon on Lurie Tower and Burton Tower in Ann Arbor.
Contact: yqm@umich.edu
Posts
- SMR Members Present at IASPM 2023 – July 17, 2023
- SMR members present at Music Theory Midwest – May 09, 2022
- Mitty Ma and Carlos Pérez Tabares present at CCM conference – April 14, 2022
- SMR at SEM 2021 – November 23, 2021