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Rachel Hottle

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  • LON 213A

Rachel Hottle studies questions of embodiment, instrumentality, form, and narrative in popular music, with particular interest in the music of the American folk revival. Her work has appeared in Music Theory Online and is forthcoming in the Journal of Music Theory. She has presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society, as well as numerous regional conferences in music theory and musicology. She currently serves as Secretary of the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory.

Hottle earned a B.A. in music from Swarthmore College, followed by an M.A. and PhD. in Music Theory with a graduate concentration in gender and women’s studies at McGill University. She was a recipient of the 2025 SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship for her project, “Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, and the Guitar/Body Interface.”

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