FSU College of Music researcher receives National Endowment of Humanities fellowship for book on music, slavery

(February 13, 2024)

Florida State University News

A Florida State University researcher has received National Endowment of Humanities funding to explore the connections forged between music, race and slavery in the 18th century and how those connections resonate in the present day.

Maria Ryan, an assistant professor of musicology at the FSU College of Music, secured a $30,000 NEH fellowship to work on “Ambivalent Listening: Race, Music, and Slavery in the British Colonial Caribbean, 1750–1838.”

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