Participant Info
- First Name
- Anneli
- Last Name
- Loepp Thiessen
- Country
- Canada
- State
- aloeppthiessen@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Ottawa
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Feminist musicology, church music, contemporary worship music, popular music, music pedagogy, Mennonite music, decolonizing music
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Anneli Loepp Thiessen is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Music Research program at the University of Ottawa, where her research promotes an interdisciplinary musicological approach to issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in music industries and music education. Her forthcoming publications address issues of racism and sexism within the Christian contemporary worship industry, a topic which she has presented on at numerous conferences. Anneli holds her ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music, a graduate diploma in Arts Management from Queen’s University, and was named a Yamaha Fellow of the Eastman Leadership Academy in 2020. She is a past recipient of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a current holder of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Anneli is a music educator, arts administrator, and piano performer, and enjoys sharing her research and passion for music with audiences across Canada.
- Recent Publications
Bjorlin, David and Anneli Loepp Thiessen. ““My Chains Are Gone”: Language of Enslavement and Freedom in Contemporary Worship Music” in The Hymn: A Journal of Congregational Song, forthcoming 2021.
Katie Graber and Anneli Loepp Thiessen, eds. Worship and Witness, an issue of Anabaptist Witness 8 (1).
Anneli Loepp Thiessen. “A Time to be Silent and a Time to Speak: Representation of Women Songwriters at Five Megachurches” in Journal of Contemporary Ministry, forthcoming 2021.
- Media Coverage
- annelimariee
- Country Focus
- Canada, United States of America
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Pedagogy, Religion, Women