Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Baade (McMaster University)

Christina Baade is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University, where she is also affiliated with the Gender and Social Justice program and the McMaster Centre for Research in Employment and Work. Trained as a musicologist, her research crosses popular music, media, and sound studies, examining the performative work of women stars; the intersections of music and labor (including parenting and caregiving labor), the cultural impact of music radio and streaming; and cultural memory in post-World War II Britain. Her publications include her award-winning book, Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (OUP 2012) and three co-edited collections: Music and the Broadcast Experience (OUP 2016), Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States (Indiana UP 2020), and Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times (Wesleyan 2021), which received honorable mention for the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize. She is active in several scholarly societies, including the Society for American Music, North American British Music Studies Association, and International Association for the Study of Popular Music.