Judy Tsou

Judy Tsou’s research interests include sociological aspects (especially gender) of music, American popular music, and music archives. She is the editor of Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music (1994; winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book and Susan Koppelman feminist editing awards). Tsou is the author of “Gendering Race: Stereotypes of Chinese Americans in Popular Sheet Music,” (repercussions vol. 6 no. 2), and of book reviews in NOTES, Cum Notis Variorum, CHOICE, Fontes Artis Musicae, and Signs: Journal of women in culture and society.

Tsou is currently serving a second term on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and is on the editorial board of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. She served as chair of the Committee on the Status of Women and was a member of the Council of the American Musicological Society. She was also chair of the Archives and Documentation Centres Branch of the International Association of Music Librariesand a member of the editorial board of Women in Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. Tsou was a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for American Music (1998-2001); a member-at-large of the Music Library Association (1994-96); and a fellow at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley (1996-97).

She earned her M.I.L.S. degree at the University of Michigan and an M.A. degree at Columbia University.

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