Dr Simone Krüger

Biography... 

I am a music scholar with particular interests in ethnomusicology and music ethnography, educational anthropology, specifically the application of ethnographic approaches to the transmission and learning of musics from around the world, as well as popular music studies, the cultural study of music and globalisation studies. I am holding a position as Senior Lecturer in Music at Liverpool John Moores University (UK) where I lead higher education courses and modules on globalisation, world music studies, popular music studies, and the role of music in culture. I am a committee member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, a UK-based association devoted to the study of music and dance from all parts of the world, for which I hosted the annual conference in 2009 on the theme of “Music, Culture and Globalisation”. From September 2010, I am also co-editor for the society's journal Ethnomusicology Forum (publ. bi-annually by Routledge; to be publ. three times annually from 2011).

In my career, I have gained over seven years teaching experience in ethnomusicology and related fields of musical study. Much of my current teaching is thematic and interdisciplinary, whilst leading higher education courses and modules on world music studies, popular music studies, globalization, and the role of music in culture. I publish in the areas of ethnomusicology and have published a monograph entitled Experiencing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Learning in European Universities (Ashgate, 2009) that illustrates students’ experiences of the transmission of ethnomusicology in higher education. I also write and publish in the broader areas of music in global culture, and currently complete a monography on Popular Musics in World Perspective (Polity), which brings together ethnomusicology and popular music studies with chapters on identity, trans/nationalism, canon, race, ethnicity, self, other, orientalism, gender, space, place and human rights. Another proposal for a jointly edited book entitled Musics in Transit: Current Perspectives on Musical Migration and Tourism with contributions by international scholars and foci on musical migration, diasporic experience, travel and tourism is in preparation. I also research and write in music education more widely with specific focus on ethnography education and employability.