Overview
Anne Elise Koppes is a PhD candidate in Musicology with a certificate in Feminist Studies at Duke. Annie's research examines the afterlives of vaudeville blues in 20th-century America, critically historicizing issues of racial capitalism beginning in the race record industry, spanning into the blues revival in psychedelic rock, and later feminist intervention with blues discourse.
She is the assistant editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. In addition to her research and teaching, she has collaborated with the "Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records" collective, sponsored by Bass Connections. She has also been a graduate fellow in Duke University's Black Music and the Soul of America Lab and a Berger-Carter-Berger Fellow at the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University Newark.
She holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Music (with certificates in Violoncello Pedagogy and French) from Colorado State University. She is an active instructor of cello, guitar, and voice as well as an experimental singer-songwriter, performing around the Triangle and her home state of Colorado.