Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa
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
Music analysis as theory and practice; semiotic applications in music; West African music
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