RESEARCH
Libby is passionate about approaching music research from the crossroads between the humanities and sciences. Her work is shaped by a post-disciplinary approach; combining interests in the methodologies associated with quantitative, qualitative, and theoretical questions, she uses a variety of disciplinary angles to explore music as both behavior and artifact. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the music cognition specialization at the University of Western Ontario, Don Wright Faculty of Music. Her developing dissertation explores music-evoked autobiographical memory as it is mediated by social media.
Research Work
2024
Poster presentation, "The Effect of Altered Popular Music on Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories" at 2024 conference for the Society of Music Cognition and Perception
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2023
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Book review for Music and the Westward Expansion: 
Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier by Laura Dean. Appears in the 
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 66 (1), 2023, pg. 165

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Conference Presentation, 2023 Western University Graduate Symposium on Music: "What’s Going On at the Y.M.C.A?: 
A Case Study in Music as Cultural Mnemonic"
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2022
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Conference Presentation, John William "Blind Boone" Symposium: "Merit, not Genius: The Problem of Romanticized Disabilities and the Genius of Blind Boone"
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Serving Board Member, Budds Center for American Music Studies
2021
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Interim Director, Budds Center for American Music Studies
Co-Author:
- 200 Memorable Missouri Musical Moments: Commentary,
Historical Photographs, & Video Clips
Editor:
- A Thematic Catalogue & Performance Chronicle
of the Music of John Cheetham
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Archival Manager for the Budds Center School of Music Archive
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2020
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Research Assistant for the Budds Center for American Music Studies
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Conditioning the Musical Ear: The Effects of 20th-century Sample Based Music on the Sound-to-Music Illusion (Ongoing)
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When Theories of Psychology and Music Intersect: A Case Study in Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
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2019
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Schema-Based Education and the Composition Student: Considerations in Primary Composition Education
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Prescription Sound: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
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2018
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Freudian Theory in Sound: Psychoanalysis and the Music of Weimar Germany
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CV
Education
The University of Western Ontario
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Ph.D. Musicology (degree expected 2025)
The University of Missouri
2017-2020
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M.A. Musicology (2020)
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M.M. Composition (2019)
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Belhaven University
2010-2014
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B.A. in Music (Composition)
Memberships
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American Musicological Society (2019-)
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Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2020-)