Oxford Handbooks Publishes Article by Miriam Piilonen

Last month, Oxford University Press’ Handbooks Online published a new article by assistant Miriam Piilonen, assistant professor of music theory, titled “Music Theory and Social Media.”

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In the article, Piilonen examines online trends related to music theory within the realm of social media, and how those trends are affecting the study of the subject both online and off. Examples of this social media discourse include the formation of online learning communities around various niche subjects, as well as the propagation of memes and “clickbait” related to music theory topics.

Piilonen’s primary area of research is the history of music theory. She is the recipient of multiple grants and fellowships, including a Franke Humanities Fellowship and an “SMT-40” Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Music Theory, and her research has also been published in journals such as the University of Chicago’s Critical Inquiry and Ohio State University’s Empirical Musicology Review.