Professor Sara Cohen FBA

The anthropology of music, popular music culture and music ethnography, with particular interest in questions of place, migration, heritage, and identity.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Art history, Music

Current post

University of Liverpool James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music

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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 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

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Professor Liz James FBA

Byzantine studies but especially art and archaeology; art and text, light and colour; mosaics; also gender; power; place and space; receptions and perceptions of Byzantium.

Liz James FBA

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