Kieffer opens new avenues toward understanding how contemporaneous listeners might have experienced Debussy's new and creative music. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty; professionals.
Alexandra Kieffer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 and spent the 2014-2015 academic year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her work explores intersections between musical culture and physiologies of affect, listening, and sensation in Belle Époque France.