Lynn Hooker
Associate Professor of Music, Purdue University
Lynn Hooker is a scholar of Central European music whose research explores Hungarian musical culture and its political and historical contexts. She recently received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “The Rajkó Gypsy Orchestra of the Hungarian League of Young Communists.”
Hooker earned a B.A. in Music and Chemistry (cum laude, with Honors in Music) from Duke University in 1990 before completing her Ph.D. in Music History and Theory at the University of Chicago. Her book Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 and examines the cultural and national forces that shaped Hungarian musical identity at the turn of the twentieth century.
