Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

The cultural history of music in France during the long nineteenth century: social and ideological factors influencing composition, performance, education and audience experience; music criticism; music in fiction; women's history
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Music

Current post

1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Bristol Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music

What is musicology?

5 May 2020 Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

Professor Katharine Ellis FBA explains the academic study of musicology and its applications in everyday life.

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Professor Kobena Mercer FBA

Modern and contemporary art history of the Black Atlantic, including photography and film; cultural studies of race, ethnicity and diaspora; black/queer intersections; psychoanalysis and postcolonial identities

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Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA

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Professor Steven Feld FBA

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