Meet the Creator

Annie Liu is an incoming PhD student in musicology at Princeton University. She received her MA in Musicology, MM in Bassoon Performance and a Certificate in New Media and Culture from the University of Oregon in 2024. She received her BS in General Science and BMA in Bassoon Performance from Penn State University as a Schreyer Honors Scholar in 2021.

As a 2022-23 inaugural Cykler Song Scholar, she researched shidaiqu or “songs of the times” and created this website as a public musicology resource about Shanghai popular song. Her research interests include Chinese music, timbre, music cognition, and new media. She is especially interested in the intersection between politics, power, mass media, and Chinese music in the twentieth century.

Outside of academics, Annie enjoys traveling, visiting coffee shops, playing the bassoon, training for triathlons, and hanging out with her cat, Mouse.