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Jacqueline Waeber

Associate Professor of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Music · 2008 - Present Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published November 18, 2013
Documenting the South Through Sound
Published August 23, 2013
Go Inside Franklin Humanities' New Audiovisualities Lab

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Recent Publications


What’s in a song: the case of Christopher Nolan’s ’Inception’

Journal Article SoundEffects · August 2013 Overblown cinematography and excess of visual attraction are the key features in Christopher Nolan’s Inception (UK/USA, 2010), a film that eventually exhausts itself in its numerous tours de force. Yet, Inception’s multi-levelled phantasmagoria cannot esca ... Cite

Rousseau in 2013

Journal Article Journal of the American Musicological Society · April 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Au-delà de l’opéra : l’opposition théorique entre ces deux genres revue au prisme du modèle mélodramatique de J.-J. Rousseau

Journal Article Nouvelle Revue d’Esthétique, numéro spécial "Pourquoi l’opéra?" · 2013 Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Geneva (Switzerland) · 2002 Ph.D.