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.
The anthropology of music, popular music culture and music ethnography, with particular interest in questions of place, migration, heritage, and identity.
The relations between literature, technology and science and the cultural phenomenology of material life
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