Leah Branstetter, PhD

Media for Mavis Staples Performance

Designed 14 video backdrops for a full-length performance by Mavis Staples with animation and photography. (Sample below: stars) See the…

Feminizing Rock Culture: A Revisit of Norma Coates’s ‘Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques’

An article published in Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 31 No. 3, September 2019

Interview with Vivian Perkovic, Deutschlandfunk Kulture

“Weibliche Elvisse—Die unsichtbaren Frauen des Rock’n’Roll: Leah Branstetter im Gespräch mit Vivian Perkovic,” Deutschlandfunk Kulture (radio interview in German)

Interview: The Lisa Valentine Clark Show

Interview with Lisa Valentine Clark for the Lisa Show on BYU/SiriusXM Radio.

Women in Rock & Roll’s First Wave [Digital Dissertation]

My dissertation project, which has the working title “Women in Rock and Roll’s First Wave,” focuses on the careers and…

Alt-Ac to Alt+Ac: Redefining Musicology Careers in the 21st Century [Conference Panel]

Conference panel sponsored by the American Musicological Society Committee on Career-Related Issues What does a musicology career look like in…

Points of View: Mary Wilson on Motown and Creating Identity

Abstract: Mary Wilson of the Supremes discussed her experience with Motown’s Maxine Powell in this special program. “I teach class,…

Educational Videos

Samples: Dee Snider on the PMRC Contributions: sourced media, edited James Brown and “The One” Contributions: scripted, animated, edited

Digital Humanities Workshop: Project Management

“Oregon Trail” Taught Me Everything I Need to Know about Planning Digital Projects Abstract: This presentation looks at my work…

Media for Johnny Cash Tribute Show

Oversaw multimedia production for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2016 concert tribute to inductee Johnny Cash. Won internal…

Infographics

Infographics created for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s online education.

The Everly Brothers in Northeast Ohio

This article appeared in the program book for the 2014 Music Masters tribute to the Everly Brothers put on by…

Wanda Jackson Goes to Japan: The Hidden Histories of “Fujiyama Mama”

Read a long version of this paper! 2014 Experience Music Project Pop Conference Go! Music and Mobility EMP Museum, Seattle,…

Concert Poster

Poster created for family concert using brand colors/fonts.

Lesson Plan: Assembling the Hits at Motown

A lesson plan written for teachrock.org

Social Media Marketing Images

These images were designed to match the look and feel of the company’s website.

Video Presentation: Music in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

This is a version of a live presentation I gave at the 2013 meeting of the Society for American Music….

Syllabus for Rock History Course

Digital syllabus for my 2013 survey course on rock history. http://mupm212.leahbranstetter.com

Canon in PhD: Training to Be a Pop Music Scholar in the Twenty-First Century [Conference Panel]

Experience Music Project Pop Conference EMP.CLE: Curating the Pop Soundscape Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH…

“The Tenors of the Times”

“The Tenors of the Times: Myth, Media, and the Celebrity Tenor” This is a chapter taken from my master’s thesis,…

Program Notes for the New Albany Symphony

New Albany Symphony Program Note Samples

Syllabus for Women in Music Course

A digital syllabus draft for a course in development on role of music in women’s history and the role of…