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
David R.M Irving's research interests are music and colonialism from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; the role of music in early-modern intercultural contact; global histories of music; the revival of “early music”; and historical performance practice.
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