Research Fellow, Homerton College
Director of Studies (Lent/Easter 2019), Homerton College
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Biography:
My interests extend from the fin de siècle to the 21st century, with a focus on experimental music, the politics of mass culture, and the poetics of song. I've published essays on a broad range of topics from Steve Reich to folk and blues revivalism. I’ve also written shorter comment pieces on populism, higher education, and fascism. More recently I’ve become interested in digital culture, in particular vaporwave and AI composition. Forthcoming projects include a co-edited volume entitled Remixing Music Studies and a book on music and the utopian imagination.
I studied at the University of Cambridge (PhD 2015, King’s College), the University of York (MRes 2010), and the University of Oxford (BA 2009, Christ Church), where I received the Gibbs Prize.
Before taking up a four-year Junior Research Fellowship in January 2017 I spent a year as a Temporary Lecturer at Cambridge and received the Faculty of Music’s Teaching Prize for courses on 1960s countercultures and popular music of the black Atlantic.
Colleges, Departments and Institutes
Key Publications
Books
- Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook, ed. Ananay Aguilar, Eric Clarke, Ross Cole, and Matthew Pritchard (London: Routledge 2020), forthcoming.
Articles
- 'On the Politics of Folk Song Theory in Edwardian England.' Ethnomusicology, 63/1 (2019): 19–42.
- 'Vernacular Song and the Folkloric Imagination at the Fin de Siècle.' 19th-Century Music, 42/2 (2018): 73–95.
- 'Notes on Troubling "the Popular".' Popular Music, 37/3 (2018): 392–414.
- 'Mastery and Masquerade in the Transatlantic Blues Revival.' Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 143/1 (2018): 173–210.
- 'Industrial Balladry, Mass Culture, and the Politics of Realism in Cold War Britain.' Journal of Musicology, 34/3 (2017): 354–390.
- '"Sound Effects (O.K., Music)": Steve Reich and the Visual Arts in New York City, 1966–68.' Twentieth-Century Music, 11/2 (2014): 217–244.
- '"Fun, Yes, but Music?" Steve Reich and the San Francisco Bay Area’s Cultural Nexus, 1962–65.' Journal of the Society for American Music, 6/3 (2012): 315–348.
Chapters
- 'Towards an Ecological History of Music.' In Remixing Music Studies, ed. Ananay Aguilar, Eric Clarke, Ross Cole, and Matthew Pritchard (London: Routledge, 2020), forthcoming.
- 'Traversing the Great Divide? Stravinsky, Modernism, and Mass Culture.' In Stravinsky in Context, ed. Graham Griffiths (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), forthcoming.
- '"Join that Troubled Chorus": Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds, and the Blues.' In Mute Records: Artists, Business, History, ed. Zuleika Beaven, Marcus O’Dair, and Richard Osborne (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
