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.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Philip Bohlman FBA

Ethnomusicology: music as an agent of change in culture and modern history; music and religion and race; music in European Judaism and Islam.

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA

The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity

Finbarr Barry Flood FBA (Photo credit: Alya Karame)

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