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, mass culture, and the political landscape of modernity. I have published on Steve Reich, cultural Marxism, blues and racialization, folk revivalism, Nick Cave, Stravinsky, and the historiography of popular music. Forthcoming projects include a co-edited volume entitled Remixing Music Studies, for which I’m contributing a chapter on ecological musicology.
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 graduated with the Gibbs Prize. I also hold an LRSM in saxophone performance.
Before taking up a four-year Research Fellowship at Homerton College in 2017 I was a Temporary Lecturer in 20th/21st-century music at Cambridge and received the Faculty of Music’s Teaching Prize.
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
2020
- 'For an Ecological History of Twentieth-Century Music.' In Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook, 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.
2019
- 'On the Politics of Folksong Theory in Edwardian England.' Ethnomusicology 63/1 (2019), forthcoming.
2018
- '"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, 2018), forthcoming.
- 'Vernacular Song and the Folkloric Imagination at the Fin de Siècle.' 19th-Century Music 42/2 (2018), forthcoming.
- 'Notes on Troubling "the Popular".' Popular Music 37/3 (2018), forthcoming.
- 'Mastery and Masquerade in the Transatlantic Blues Revival.' Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 143/1 (2018): 173–210.
2017
- 'Industrial Balladry, Mass Culture, and the Politics of Realism in Cold War Britain.' Journal of Musicology, 34/3 (2017): 354–390.
2014
- '"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.
2012
- '"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.