AUTHOR: Stacey Jocoy
Stacey Jocoy is a Music Reference Specialist in the Library’s Music Division. She recently served as Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Tech University (2004-2023). She earned her doctorate in musicology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on dramatic music for the stage, film, and animation and the use of soundscapes as integral to conceptualizations of worldbuilding. She has been supported by fellowships from Carnegie Mellon, Huntington Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library, and she has published in academic journals including Mechademia (13.2), Transcommunication (Waseda University), and 17th-Century Music Studies, the collection The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music (Routledge 2022), and most recently in The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation (Palgrave 2024).