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Alyssa Woods
Alyssa Woods (Ph.D., University of Michigan) teaches musicology, popular music studies and music theory at Carleton University. Her research involves an interdisciplinary approach to musical theoretical and sociocultural analysis, focusing on the study of gender and race in popular music with particular emphasis on hip hop. She has published articles in Music Theory Online and Twentieth-Century Music, as well as the edited collections Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom, The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter, and the Routledge Handbook to Popular Music and Gender. Her current project is focused on religious themes and affiliation in hip hop.