Biography:
Focusing predominantly on British and American music of the 20th century, my research interests cut across popular culture and the avant garde. I studied at the Universities of Cambridge (PhD 2015, King's College), York (MRes 2010), and Oxford (BA 2009, Christ Church), where I was awarded the Gibbs Prize. Prior to my current position as a Research Fellow, I held a Temporary Lectureship at Cambridge, where I offered courses at undergraduate and MPhil level including 'Popular Music of the Black Atlantic: From Slavery to Hip Hop' and 'Musical Countercultures of the 1960s'. I was awarded the Faculty of Music’s Teaching Prize in 2016.
Colleges, Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
minimalism, blues, folk revivalism, African American music, 1960s culture, fin-de-siècle Britain, experimentalism, modernism, modernity, and the poetics of song
Key Publications
Journal articles:
- 'Vernacular Song and the Folkloric Imagination at the Fin de Siècle.' 19th-Century Music (forthcoming).
- 'Notes on Troubling "the Popular".' Popular Music (forthcoming).
- 'On the Politics of Folksong Theory in Edwardian England.' Ethnomusicology (forthcoming).
- '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.
Book chapters:
- 'Traversing the Great Divide? Stravinsky, Modernism, and Mass Culture.' In Stravinsky in Context, ed. Graham Griffiths (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 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), forthcoming.
