Ailsa Lipscombe

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Title
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Department
College-Conservatory of Music
Institution
University of Cincinnati

Education

  • PhD, Music, University of Chicago
  • Master of Arts, University of Chicago
  • Master of Music, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Research Interests

Listening Habits   Medical Facilities   Digital Ethnography  

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Biography

Ailsa Lipscombe (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. She is a queer, disabled scholar, whose research explores how intersectional embodiments shape listening habits. Her ethnographic work amplifies the voices of her disabled and chronically ill interlocutors to understand how experiences of medicalization collide with experiences of trauma, relationality, and disability. She also draws on multimedia analyses and her own experiences with blindness, chronic illness, and PTSD to center embodiment as at the heart of multi-sensory encounters. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Association and Te Tūapapa Mātauranga o Aotearoa me Amerika. She was awarded the 2021 Charles Seeger Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for her paper "When Silence Is Heard: Embodied Listening in Medical Facilities' Competing Sonic Epistemes,” and has an upcoming article in Ethnomusicology based on this research, as well as a forthcoming chapter on medicalized listening to Taylor Swift’s heartbeat in “You’re Losing Me.” Her first monograph is under contract with the University of Michigan Press to be published within their Music and Social Justice series.

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Contact Information

  290 CCM Blvd, Cincinnati OH 45221

Research
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List of Publications (20)
In 2024
20

Liew, Chern Li, and Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Centering Dialogue and Care in Digital Indigenous Knowledge Stewardship: Of Relationality, Responsibility, and Respect." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. (2024). doi.org/10.1002/asi.24873

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19

Liew, Chern Li, and Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Communities, Conversations, & Care: A New Model of Archiving." Information Matters 4, no. 2 (2024). doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4732876

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18

Lipscombe, Ailsa. "When Silence is Heard: Embodied Listening Within Medical Facilities' Competing Sonic Epistemes." Ethnomusicology 69, no. 1 (2024).

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In 2023
17

"Cripping Access: Pedagogical Improvisation and/as Disability Epistemology." International Association for Popular Music-Australia and New Zealand Annual Meeting. Hamilton, New Zealand. December 6-8, 2023.

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16

"Emplaced Displacement: Traumatic Listening at the Edge of Time." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Ottawa, Canada. October 19-22, 2023.

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15

"Dialogic Empathy as Praxis: Supporting the Culturally-Responsible Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge Collections." Access, Archives, and Ethnomusicology. Que bec, Canada. October 18, 2023.

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14

Friedner, Michele, and Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Review: Diminished Faculties, by Jonathan Sterne." Journal of Popular Music Studies 35, no. 2 (Summer, 2023): 119-122.

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13

Liew, Chern Li, and Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Transforming Indigenous Knowledges Stewardship Praxis Through an Ethics of Care." Proceedings for the Association for Information Science and Technology. (2023).

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In 2021
12

"Viral Sounds, COVID-19, and the Medicalization of Everyday Spaces." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Virtual. October 28-31, 2021.

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In 2020
11

"When Silence is Heard: Embodied Listening in Medical Facilities' Competing Sonic Epistemes." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Virtual. October 22-31, 2020.

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In 2018
10

"Sensory Medicine / Sensory Mediation: Experiencing Hospital Acoustemologies." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM. November 15-18, 2018.

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9

"Music, Disability, and the Environment: Bridging Scholarship with Activism." American Musicology Society Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. November 1-4, 2018.

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In 2017
8

"Disembodiment as Disempowerment: Indigenous Vocal Performance in Disney's Frozen." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. October 26-29, 2017.

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In 2016
7

"Making the Visible Audible: Challenging the Ocularcentric Tendencies of Academic Environments." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. November 10-13, 2016.

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In 2014
6

""If You Want To Sing Out, Log In": The Role of Social Media in Developing Globalized, Yet Localized, Fan Bases." New Zealand Musicological Society Annual Meeting. Dunedin, NZ. December 3- 4, 2014.

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Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Sounding Relational: Medicinal Mediation and the COVID-19 Bedside Concert." In Music, Mediation, and Disability: Representation and Access, edited by James Deaville, Natalia Esling, Kate Galloway, Stefan Sunandan Honisch, and Chantal Lemire. University of Illinois Press.

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4

Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Cripping Access: Inclusive Pedagogy as Improvisatory Participation." In Disability Perspectives for Music Education, edited by Adam Bell and Stefan Sunandan Honisch. (Forthcoming).

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3

Lipscombe, Ailsa. ""I Can't Find a Pulse": Encoding Sonic Intimacy in Heartbeats and Heartbreaks." Curriculum Vitae Ailsa Lipscombe In Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans, edited by Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare Harper. Routledge. (Forthcoming).

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2

Lipscombe, Ailsa. Listening Beyond Crisis: Disability and the Medicalization of the Everyday. University of Michigan Press. (Under contract).

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1

Lipscombe, Ailsa. "Sound and Disability." In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, Vol. 1: Spaces, Cultures, Disciplines, edited by Michael Bull and Neil Verma. Bloomsbury. (Under contract).

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