Professor Roger Parker FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Music
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Summary
Roger Parker is Professor of Music at King's College London, having previously taught at Cornell, Oxford and Cambridge. He is General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the Donizetti critical edition, published by Ricordi. His most recent books are 'Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio' (University of California Press, 2006); and 'A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years' (Penguin, UK/Norton, US, 2012), written jointly with Carolyn Abbate. He is now working on a book about music in London in the 1830s, and is Director of the ERC-funded project 'Music in London, 1800-1851'.
Current post
Thurston Dart Professor of Music, King's College London
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Thurston Dart Professor of Music, King's College London, University of London
2007 -
University of Cambridge Professor
1999 - 2006
University of Oxford Lecturer (then Professor)
1994 - 1999
Cornell University Assistant (then Associate) Professor
1982 - 1993
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Julie Annette Brown FBA
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
Professor Steven Feld FBA
Acoustemology and anthropology of sound in rainforest Papua New Guinea, Pastoral Southern Europe and urban West Africa; ethnographic poetics; indigenous representation in global media; documentary photography and cinema
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.
