Jocelyn Neal

Contact Information

Hill Hall 216

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

919-843-8818

jneal@email.unc.edu

Education

P.h.D., Eastman School of Music, 2002

M.A., Eastman School of Music, 1995

B.A., Rice University, 1993

Research and Interests

Dr. Neal teaches music theory, analysis, and popular music courses; her research addresses commercial country music, rhythm and meter, and dance/music interactions in popular music. She was a Fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (2005 and 2008).  She has served as chair of the Popular Music Group for the Society of Music Theory and as a member of the editorial board for the academic journal Music Theory Spectrum.  She is currently  co-editor of  Southern Cultures. Dr. Neal regularly presents her research at national conferences on American music, popular music, music theory, and cultural studies.

Courses

Undergraduate: Music Theory and Analysis, History of Country Music, History of Rock Music, Popular Music Analysis, Seminar on Music in Motion.

Graduate: Cover Songs; Form, Structure, and Meaning in Contemporary Songwriting (Analysis); Time in Music (Theories of Rhythm and Meter); Alt Country and Commercial Country; Authenticity in Country Music; Tonal Theory and Analysis.