Fiona Boyd

Fiona Boyd

is an interdisciplinary scholar of twenty-first century radio and popular music. She is a PhD Candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago and her current book project, Radiophonic Country, examines the dominance of radio in contemporary country music and the alternative pathways musicians take away from mainstream airplay.

Fiona has an article based on ethnographic work with Black Opry, a Nashville-based country music collective, forthcoming in Ethnomusicology. Her work has been supported by the Society for American Music, Wellesley College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2025, Fiona was awarded the Student Paper Prize from the Sound Studies Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

PhD, Music, University of Chicago, July 2026
MA, Music, University of Chicago, 2022
BA, Music and French, Wellesley College, 2016