Alyssa Wells

Historical Musicology

Dissertation: “Falling Out of Step: Belonging, Grit and Drum Corps International's Moment of Reckoning” (2022)

Alyssa Wells’s dissertation articulates how marching bands in the United States function as forces of social influence through theories of whiteness, masculinity, and militarism. Alyssa’s secondary research area focuses on composer Hanns Eisler and music festivals in the German Democratic Republic. She completed master’s degrees at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Musicology (M.M.) and German and Scandinavian Studies (M.A.), where her work on Eisler received funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In her free time, she enjoys camping, cooking, telling terrible jokes, and making annoying puns.

Posts

• Alyssa Wells defends dissertation – March 10, 2022
• SMR Hosts Midwest Graduate Music Consortium 2021 Conference – April 19, 2021
• SMR at AMS 2020 – November 20, 2020
• Message from SMR co-chairs – April 03, 2020
• Welcome message from the co-chairs – September 03, 2019
• Alyssa Wells: summer archival research – August 23, 2019
• SMR discussion session with Dr. Nancy Rao – April 18, 2019
• Alyssa Wells at the 2019 Harvard Graduate Music Conference – February 13, 2019
• First 2018–19 General Assembly – October 02, 2018
• Musical Instrument Museum Trip – March 24, 2018
• Alyssa Wells on Brass Chicks Blog – March 16, 2018

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