Overview
Kelly St. Pierre works as an Associate Professor of Musicology at 萝莉社 University. She received her PhD in musicology from Case Western Reserve University in 2012. Her research examines the roles of propaganda in shaping Czech music and its reception through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book on this topic, Bed艡ich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda, was released in 2017 with the University of Rochester Press. Her newest book project, Trauma and Memory in Czech Folksong Research, focuses specifically on the emergence of ethnomusicology alongside notions of ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia. She spent the academic year 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 on a Fulbright grant in support of this project, researching at the Czech Academy of Science鈥檚 Ethnological Institute as well as serving on the musicology faculty of Prague鈥檚 Charles University. She also holds a second full-time position in Prague as a researcher on the project The Second Sense: Sound, Hearing and Nature in Czech Modernity at the Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS). The CTS is a joint program of both Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Selected Publications
Books
- Martin Nedbal, Kelly St. Pierre, and Hana Vlhov谩-W枚rner, eds. Cambridge History of Music in the Czech Lands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.
- Helena Spurn谩 and Kelly St. Pierre, eds. New Paths in Opera: Martin暖, Burian, H谩ba, Schulhoff, Ulmmann. Prague: Koniasch Latin Press, forthcoming January, 2022.
- Kelly St. Pierre. Bed艡ich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda. New York: University of Rochester Press/Boydell & Brewer, 2017.
Articles and Book Chapters
- And Ond艡ej Skovajsa, 鈥淢usic and Ethnic Cleansing.鈥� In Cambridge History of Music in the Czech Lands, edited by Martin Nedbal, Kelly St. Pierre, and Hana Vlhov谩-W枚rner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.
- 鈥淪inging Women and 鈥楾he Women Question鈥� in the Czech Lands.鈥� In Apostles of a Brighter Future: Women and Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture, edited by Anja Bunzel and Christopher Campo-Bowen. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2022.
- 鈥淭he 鈥楶eople鈥� in Czech and Slovak Music Criticism.鈥� In Cambridge History of Music Criticism, edited by Christopher Dingle, 440-456. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- 鈥淪metana鈥檚 鈥榁y拧ehrad鈥� and Mythologies of Czechness in Scholarship.鈥� 19th-Century Music 37/2 (Fall 2013): 91-112.
Encyclopedic Entries
- 鈥淪metana, Bed艡ich [Friedrich].鈥� In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, edited by Deane Root. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.