About me
Lisa Barg is Associate Professor of Music History and Musicology at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. She has published articles on race and modernist opera, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Melba Liston and Paul Robeson. She is currently principal investigator for research project funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC), titled “Collaborative Creativity: Sound Recording and Music Making.” She is Co-editor-In-Chief of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. Her forthcoming book (Wesleyan University Press, 2023), Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration is a study of Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history.