E-Mail: Rebecca.Leydon@oberlin.edu Office: Bibbins 219 Office Phone: 440/775-8205 Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Back to: Division of Music Theory		Rebecca Leydon Associate Professor of Music Theory Education: Bachelor of Music, University of Toronto, 1988; M.A. Eastman School of Music, 1991; Ph.D. McGill University, 1996. Doctoral Dissertation: "Narrative Strategies in Debussy's Late Style;" Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow, 1994-1995. Publications: R. Leydon. "Forbidden Planet: Effects and Affects in the Electro Avant-garde," in Off the Planet: Music and Sound Design in Science Fiction Cinema, Phil Hayward, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. In press. R. Leydon. "Hooked on Aetherophonics:  Bernard Herrmann's Symphonic Spectacular," in Off the Planet: Music and Sound Design in Science Fiction Cinema, Phil Hayward, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. In press. R. Leydon. "Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer: The Post-war Pastoral in Space-age Bachelor-Pad Music," in Popular Music 22/2 (July 2003).   R. Leydon. "Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes," in Music Theory Online 8.4 (December 2002). <http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto> R. Leydon. "The Soft-Focus Sound," in Perspectives of New Music. 39/2, 2002: 96-107. R. Leydon, K. Kärki, H. Terho, eds.  Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Turku, Finland: IASPM-Norden, 2002.  R. Leydon. "Debussy's Late Style and the Devices of the Early Silent Cinema," in Music Theory Spectrum,23/2 (fall), 2001: 217-241.  R. Leydon. "Utopias of the Tropics: Les Baxter and Yma Sumac," in Widening the Horizons: Exoticism in Post-War popular Music, Phil Hayward, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000: 45-71. National and International Conference Presentations: "The Limits of Seeing: Scopism and its musical pitfalls and rewards." Feminist Theory and Music 7, Bowling Green, Ohio, July 2003. "Recombinant Style-Topics: Beck, Mr. Bungle, and Emerging Formal Strategies." Society for Music Theory national meeting, Philadelphia, 2001. "Hi-jacking your equilibrium: Stylistic Topoi in Music of Beck." International Association for the Study of Popular Music, international meeting. Turku, Finland, 2001  "Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes." American Musicological Society National Meeting. Toronto, 2000. "Signatures of (Dis)pleasure in Disney Film Scores: Autobiographic Afterthought."Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Couch-Stone Symposium. St.Petersburg, Florida, 2000. "The Soft-Focus Sound." International Association for the Study of Popular Music, national meeting. University of California at Los Angeles, 1998. "Other Worlds, Other Sounds: Utopias of the Tropics in Lounge Music." Joint national meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, 1997.  "Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer: Pastoral Predicaments in Space-age Bachelor-Pad Music." Feminist Theory and Music 4, Charlottesville, Va, 1997. "Esquivel! and the Bucolic Mode." Keynote Address, McGill Graduate Symposium, 1997. "Debussy's Late Style and The Early Silent Cinema." Society for Music Theory national meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1996. "Going to a Hukilau: Exoticism in Lounge Music." Cross(over)Relations: Popular Music, Scholarship, and the Canon, Eastman School of Music, 1996. "Musical Narrativity: Kinds of Stories in Debussy's Etudes." Canadian University Music Society Conference, Montreal, 1995. Professional Societies: Society for Music Theory American Musicological Society International Association for the Study of Popular Music Professional Affiliations: Visiting assistant professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1996-1998; instructor, McGill University, 1992-95; instructor, Eastman School of Music, 1989-91.