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Beth Snyder

Limited-Term Lecturer
Global Humanities

Areas of interest

Music and the Cold War, philosophy of music and aesthetics, music and migration, modernisms

Education

  • PhD, Musicology, New York University
  • MM, Music, The University of Texas at Austin
  • MA, Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
  • BA, Philosophy, Boston University

Biography

Prior to taking up her post at SFU, Beth was an Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas. She also worked as Research Associate on the multi-year UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded 鈥楳usic, Migration and Mobility鈥� project based at the Royal College of Music, London. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Twentieth-Century Music, Music & Politics, Geohumanities, and by Clemson University Press. Beth is currently writing a book (under contract with Routledge), investigating the ways musicians, musicologists, and philosophers negotiated the roles music could play in creating political community in East Germany. Her work is motivated by interests in the mobilities of musicians and musical practices, intersections between music and politics, and philosopher Ernst Bloch鈥檚 provocative theory of music鈥檚 significance to projects of social progress.

Recent Publication

鈥淢ozart himself was a cosmopolitan鈥�: Women Singers at Glyndebourne and Debates about a Cosmopolitan Utopia,鈥� in The Glyndebourne 脡migr茅s: Operatic Mobilities in Southern England, 1934-1940, eds. Nils Grosch and Beth Snyder (Clemson University Press, 2025)

鈥淢apping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism Through Mobility and Migration鈥� by Michael Holden, Peter Adey, Beth Snyder, Nils Grosch, and Norbert Meyn, Geohumanities 10.1 (2024)

鈥極nce Misjudged and Banned: Promoting the Musical Heritage in the GDR and the Discourse Surrounding the 1959 Felix Mendelssohn Festwoche,鈥� Twentieth-Century Music 16.2 (June 2019)

鈥楾he Not-Yet-Conscious: Music as a Way of Knowing,鈥� in Journal of the American Musicological Society 70.3 (Fall 2017)