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2026 Music and Culture Graduate Student Society Annual Symposium

The Politics of Music and Sound

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Dr. Kip Pegley, Professor of Music in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University, Kingston.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Kip Pegley
Professor of Music, Queen’s University

Dr. Kip Pegley is Queen’s National Scholar and Professor of Music in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is the author of Coming to You Wherever You Are: MuchMusic, MTV, Youth Identities (Wesleyan University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Music, Politics and Violence (Wesleyan University Press, 2012). His recent work explores the connections between sound, trauma, and politics and has appeared in the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health (2015), Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality (Routledge, 2017), Music and War in the United States (Routledge, 2019), MUSICultures (2019), Music and Politics (2023), and the Canadian Journal of Communication (2024).

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