Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Faculty: Elizabeth Wollman

Elizabeth Wollman (PhD, City University of New York) is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College. She is an ethnomusicologist who has published articles on the relationship between gender stereotypes and rock radio programming, on the socioeconomic development of the Broadway musical in the 1980s and 1990s, and on the reception of rock musicals. Her research and teaching interests include American popular and vernacular musics, the mass media, the musical theater, gender studies, aesthetics, and the postwar cultural history of New York City. Her most recent publication is the book "The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, From Hair to Hedwig" (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Email: lizwollman@yahoo.com.