In the summer before middle school, my sister and I communicated with one another using…
Allison Adrian is an ethnomusicologist, particularly interested in the relationships between music and community building. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music, Women’s Studies and Critical Studies of Race & Ethnicity at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. She was recently awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright Fellowship to study indigenous music in Southern Ecuador. She is co-editing Voicing Girlhood in Popular Culture: Music, Performance, Activism with Jacqueline Warwick, a critical anthology to be published in the Routledge Series in Popular Music.
In the summer before middle school, my sister and I communicated with one another using…