Louis Niebur
Louis Niebur is Assistant Professor of Musicology at UNR. His research primarily concerns avant-garde and popular music of the post-war era, focusing on musics that bridge the categories of high and low culture in society through media technology. He has delivered and published papers on such topics as electronic television music in Britain, the use of sound effects as music in early radio drama, and the gendered role of electronic sound production, as manifested in gay electronic dance music, the role of women in early electronic music studios, and American popular music. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from UCLA with a dissertation on the development of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the earliest electronic music studios, and his M.M. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Niebur is also an experienced early music performer and director, having performed extensively over the last 15 years in repertoires from the 8th - 18th centuries. In his career he has worked under such distinguished early music scholars as Elizabeth Aubrey, Martin Jenni, Rebecca Baltzer, and Philip Brett. He was the director of UCLA's early music ensemble, Musica Humana, from 2002-2004, and is currently music director of Reno Early Music, the area's only early music performance group.
