Ph.D. candidate Kaylee Feller-Simmons was awarded both the summer and academic-year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships through Indiana University’s Institute for European Studies. These awards will support her recently approved dissertation project, which explores how adolescents in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic used popular music to shape and express gender identity. Feller-Simmons’ research focuses on songbooks marketed to youth that contain lyrics but little or no surviving music notation. By analyzing these texts, she uncovers the cultural influence of adolescents in early modern Europe, challenging dominant narratives that overlook the musical contributions of this age group.
Learn more about the FLAS Fellowship here.
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