First Name:
Dr. Jacob
Last Name:
Kopcienski
Main Title:
Assistant Professor of Musicology
Office Location:
Room 305, Broyhill Music Center
Phone Number:
828-262-7385
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Dr. Jacob Kopcienski (He/They) is an assistant professor of musicology in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University. His primary research expands his dissertation “Sounding Queer Appalachia” to contextualize and document LGBTQ music, performance, cultural organizing, and communities in Appalachia, Midwest, and the South. Using ethnography, archival research, and media analysis, his research examines how communities use performance to rework ideas like “pride” and “queer” from the 1970s to the present.
Dr. Kopcienski’s community-engaged work uses archives, collaborative ethnography, and creative practices to support arts and place-based communities. He has worked with the Ohio State Center for Folklore Studies, the Rendville Historic Preservation Society, and Black in Appalachia in a multi-year partnership to document rural African American communities in Appalachian Ohio. Dr. Kopcienski continues community-engaged work at App State as the coordinator of the Music Humanities Community Conversation Series.
Dr. Kopcienski has presented at the annual conferences of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, the International Association for Popular Music Studies-US, International Country Music Conference, the Appalachian Studies Association, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Their writing appears in the Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Appalachian Studies, and as a staff writer for the website I Care if You Listen.
Dr. Kopcienski's research has been supported by App State’s University Research Council, the West Virginia Regional History Center, Ohio State University Global Arts and Humanities program, and the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship.
An accomplished saxophonist and contemporary music specialist, Dr. Kopcienski has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Ohio State University. They earned degrees from West Virginia University (M.M., M.A.), and Bowling Green State University (B.M.), and completed studies in saxophone at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt in France.