Rosenberg, Ruth Emily

Ruth Emily Rosenberg is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University. She is interested in historical approaches to ethnomusicology, women's song traditions, and discourses of folksong in France during the nineteenth century. Her dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of a genre of funeral lament performed by women on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The project considers this tradition and its practitioners as they were perceived by French travelers and folkorists during the 1800s, as well as in the contemporary context. Rosenberg was trained as a jazz saxophonist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.