Prof. Dr. Kristin McGee

Ass. Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen and Senior Lecturer in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at the School of Music at the Australian National University

Kristin McGee is an Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen and a Senior Lecturer in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at the School of Music at the Australian National University. Her research focuses upon popular music and jazz performance and media through the lens of critical intersectional frameworks. Publications include “Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959” (Wesleyan University Press 2009), “Remixing European Jazz Culture” (Routledge 2020) and a co-edited volume “Beyoncé in the World: Meaning Making in Troubled Times”, awarded honourable mention for the 2023 Ellen Koskoff Best Edited Volume Prize. McGee is also a saxophonist and has performed with groups in Chicago and Groningen.