Cultural and media histories of twentieth-century music; Schoenberg, Bartók; screen music and sound; the influence of race and gender on musical cultures; moving pictures with musical subject matter; the musical and theatrical exhibition of ‘silent’ films, especially in Britain; the sounds of early screen travelogues in exhibition
History, aesthetics and reception of European music of the 20th and 21st centuries; modernisms; spectral music; music theory and analysis
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