Ann Silverberg

Ann L. Silverberg is a professor in Austin Peay State University's Department of Music, specializing in musicology and ethnomusicology. She has served on the APSU faculty for fourteen years, where she teaches courses on music history and world music traditions. In 2007-08, Silverberg lived on the campus of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, studying the guzheng (a string instrument played in China for at least two thousand years), Chinese traditional music, and Mandarin Chinese. Her work in China was supported by an Austin Peay State University Faculty Professional Development Assignment. She was also selected as a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Chinese Culture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2007. Recent scholarly work includes book chapters on Chinese music for A Global Studies Handbook: China (AB-Clio, forthcoming), and Catholic liturgical music reform (Paul Henry Lang, forthcoming).