• B.Mus. (Dalhousie)
• M.A. (York)
• Ph.D. (York)

Associate Professor (Brass and Percussion, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Music Education)

Coordinator: Brass and Percussion Area

Email: pegleyk@queensu.ca

Kip Pegley joined the School of Music faculty as a Queen's National Scholar in 2002. She earned her Bachelor degree from Dalhousie University, Halifax (music education) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from York University, Toronto (ethnomusicology/musicology). Her research lies at the intersections of popular music, visual culture and critical theory. Her book, Coming to You Wherever You Are: MuchMusic, MTV and Youth Identities was published with Wesleyan University Press in 2008. She is currently co-editing (with Susan Fast, McMaster University) a volume of essays entitled Music, Global Conflict, and the Politics of Identity.

Dr. Pegley's publications have spanned from topics on queer theory and musical reception (Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, Routledge, 1993), to feminist deconstructions of opera (Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music, Garland, 1998), to music education and gendered uses of technology (Music and Gender, University of Illinois Press, 2000). Other recent publications appear in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Canadian University Music Review, and the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music. Recently, she published a book chapter on MuchMusic, MTV and nation-bound imagined communities in Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cell Phones (Duke University Press, 2007), and a chapter (with Susan Fast) on music, mourning, and American nationhood in Music in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge, 2007).

In addition to her research activities, she has been involved professionally for several years as an editorial board member for the journal Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture (published by the International Alliance for Women in Music). She also serves on the board for GEMS (Gender, Education, Music, Society), a theoretical on-line journal designed to explore gender-specific issues within educational curricula and practice.

Dr. Pegley is cross-appointed to the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Film and Media.