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Emma Jensen

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Independent Scholar

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Emma Jensen is an independent scholar. She has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and a Master of Music from Florida State University. Her master’s thesis, “Dungeons, Dragons, and Star Wars: Sound in Tabletop Role-Playing Games,” examines how music, the voice, and ambient sounds create the unique sonic and haptic environments of tabletop role-playing games. Her other research interests include Afro-Peruvian dance music, Senegalese popular and traditional music, sound studies, ludomusicology, and percussion literature, techniques, history, and pedagogy.