Abby Anderton

Abby Anderton is an Associate Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her work centers on performance and Holocaust testimony, female composers, and post-catastrophic music making. Her 2019 book, Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin (Indiana University Press), examines the capital’s musical culture immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. Anderton’s work has appeared in the German Studies Review, Journal of Musicological Research, Twentieth-Century Music, and Music and politics. Her research has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Eugene Lang Foundation, the American Musicological Society, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her current project, Audible Testimonies, explores the music of female Holocaust survivors in postwar Germany.