Staff Profile
Professor Ian Biddle
Professor of Music History
- Email: ian.biddle@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8844
- Address: Department of Music
School of Arts and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
缅北禁地
NE1 7RU
Introduction
Ian is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music- and sound-related areas, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, theorising music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience, and the politics of noise. He has interests in memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory, psychoanalysis and theoretical approaches to 'affective' states. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor (with Richard Middleton) of the journal . Ian graduated from Nottingham University in 1988 and completed his PhD at 缅北禁地 in 1995, 'Autonomy, Ontology and the Ideal: Music Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-Century German Thought', under the supervision of John Rink, Ronald Woodley an David Clarke. He has also studied composition with Roman Haubenstock-Romati at the Hochschule (now Universität) für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and Musicology at the Abteilung für Musikwissenschaft at Vienna University. Since then he has taught at 缅北禁地 and UEA Norwich, contributing to the teaching of analysis, cultural history and musical aesthetics and theory, music and politics, the operas of Leoš Janácek, music and gender, music in the Holocaust and music and queer theory. He has published on music theory and aesthetics in the nineteenth century, German popular music, music theory, psychoanalysis, the Holocaust and gender and sexuality.
Other websites
- [The Flamenco Effect: blog and website on my forthcoming monograph]
- [Music in the Holocaust]
- [Music in the Soviet Union]
- Google Scholar citations: click
Qualifications
BA (Hons) first class (Nottingham)
PhD (缅北禁地)
Previous Positions
1995-1996: Lecturer A (temporary) University of 缅北禁地
1997-1998: Lecturer A University of East Anglia, Norwich
1998-2005: Lecturer A/B University of 缅北禁地
2005-present: Senior Lecturer University of 缅北禁地
Languages
German(C1), Spanish (B2), Yiddish (B1), Russian (B1), basic Ukrainian (A2), Polish (B2), basic Hungarian( A2), basic Hebrew (A2)
Informal Interests
Singing flamenco and salsa
Cooking
Gardening
Research Interests
- Music in the Holocaust
- New authoritarian soundscapes
- Yiddish language and culture
- The Austro-German Tradition (1800-1945)
- Sound studies, urbanism and social class
- Music and sound in Poland
- Continental Philosophy
- Music and memory
- Music and gender/sexuality
- The historiography of technology
Current Work
Current projects include the monograph The Flamenco Effect: Authenticity, Community and Tradition in the South of Spain the articles 'Music, Affect and the Posttraumatic Community in Holocaust Cinema: Natan Gross's Unzere kinder (1948)' , 'A promessa do Fado na pós-fonografia: entre a tradição e o desejo' and 'Romance cartographies: flamenco articulations of queer spaces in urban Andalusia'.
See for more details of current projects.
His single-authored book, was published in 2011.
Other recently completed works include an article with Beate Müller '“… and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began singing…”: languages and commemoration in Arnold Schoenberg’s cantata A Survivor from Warsaw (Op. 46)' for the Edinburgh German Yearbook (2014), a co-edited book for Ashgate (with Kirsten Gibson) entitled and , articles on popular music and masculinity and several chapters on Flamenco.
Dr Biddle recently gave research papers as follows:
- Universität Bern, February 2019: 'The Modern Ear: New Regimes of Listening during the Second World War'
- Durham University, May 2018: 'Masculinity, Gender nostalgia and the listening subject: towards a critical cultural history of the ear'
- Kunstuniversität Graz, keynote presentation November 2017: 'Masculinity, Creativity and the Ethics of Writing: Towards a Critical Account of Musicology’s Gender Politics'
- Universität Göttingen 2014 Research seminar: ‘Gender nostalgia and the listening subject or the many traumatic lives and afterlives of listening’
- São Paolo 2015 IASPM conference Paper: ‘Nostalgia and the many ends of hauntology: Klezmer, Yiddish, and the new(ish) Europe’
- Labour History Research Group, 缅北禁地 2017 Paper: ‘Song, work and sentiment: the work of song and the song of work as historiographical problem’
- Laing Art Gallery 缅北禁地 2016 Public talk: ‘Exile and the Jewish Imagination: Jewish cultural displacement and migration in the twentieth century’
- 缅北禁地 City Library 2017 Public Talk: ‘'Mir zenen do': Jewish communities' cultural activities in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust’
- Bristol University Music Department 2015 Research Seminar: ‘Singing the Holocaust: the Yiddish Song Corpus, Media Archaeology and the Limits of Testimony’
- Fado- Percursos e Perspectivas; Congresso Internacional Lisboa, 18 a 21 de Junho de 2008
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Valencia, Spain, 2005
- V Congresso da Seção Latino-Americana da Associação Internacional para o Estudo da Música Popular, IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 2004
- Practising Popular Music: 12th Biennial International Conference of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), Montréal 2003
- Annual Conference for the Society for Music Theory (Philadelphia 2001)
- A Tale of Three Cities: Janáèek's Brno Between Vienna and Prague (School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University of London, 1999)
and has taught as Visiting Professor at
- Universidad de Alicante (2014)
- , University of Uppsala, Sweden (November 2003 and November 2004).
Future Research
Future research plans include work on noise in urban communities, a series of major articles on musical communities and a single-authored monoraph on noise, and a monograph on the musics of Soviet Jewry
Dr Biddle was also a Doutor colaborador for the project hosted at the Instituto de Musicologia, Lisbon entitled A indústria fonográfica em Portugal no século XX [The phongraphic industry in Portugal in the 20th century]. See for more details.
Research Roles
Co-ordinating Editor for the journal , Convenor of the Popular Music Research Group
an is also on the editorial board of the following Journals:
- Journal of the Royal Musical Association
- Twentieth-Century Music
Postgraduate Supervision
Recently successfully completed PhDs supervised by Ian include:
- Annie Hanlon (PhD): Erik Satie, gender and canons
- Gareth Hudson (PhD): Approaching the sublime in artistic practice
- Michael Blenkarn (PhD): Power electronics: a Jungian approach
- Xevi Moreno i Peracaula (PhD): Flamenco hybridities
- Sean MacMenamin (PhD): Sorabji and the periphery
- Kieran Rafferty (PhD): Song and Dramaturgy
- Adam Potts (PhD): Japanese Noise Music and Philosophy
- Francisco Bethencourt y Llobet (PhD): Flamenco guitar cultures
- Joao da Silva (PhD): Portuguese Music on Stage (late nineteenth-, early twentieth century
Dr Biddle is also proud to have supervised the work of:
- Richard Elliott, a member of staff at 缅北禁地
- , a lecturer at Liverpool University
- Esther Zaplana Rodríguez, now a lecturer at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- Kirsten Gibson, now a member of staff in ICMUS
- Bennett Hogg, now a member of staff ICMUS
Esteem Indicators
Dr Biddle was shortlisted for the Ruth Solie Prize for the book, co-edited with Vanessa Knights,
Undergraduate Teaching
- Music in the Holocaust (see )
- Musics and Nationalisms in Eastern Europe
- Music in the Soviet Union (see )
- Music and Cultural Theory
- Musical Romanticism
- Music, Gender and Sexuality
- Music and Politics in Germany, 1900-1945
- Music History (first year module)
- World Music (first year module)
Postgraduate Teaching
MMus in Music:
- Dissertation supervision
- Music and Historiography
- Ritual, Rembrance and Recorded Sound
- Urban musicologies
- Research Training
Faculty PhD Research Training
- Texts Images and Sounds, a unit of HSS8004, Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Foucault, Actor Network Theory)
- Key sessions in the module HSS8007, An Introduction to the Nature of Explanation and Enquiry
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Articles
- Biddle I. . Radical Musicology 2019, 7, n/a.
- Biddle I. . Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2019, 20(3), 227-240.
- Biddle I. . Music and the Moving Image 2018, 11(3), 40-59.
- Biddle I. . Radical Musicology 2009, 4, n/a.
- Biddle I. . Radical Musicology 2007, 2, -.
- Biddle I. . Radical Musicology 2006, 1, -.
- Biddle I. . Twentieth Century Music 2004, 1(1), 81-100.
- Biddle I. . Journal of the Royal Musical Association 1999, 124(2), 196-220.
- Biddle, I. . Musik und Ästhetik 1999, 3(12), 5-25.
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Authored Book
- Biddle I. . Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011.
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Book Chapters
- Biddle I, Müller B. . In: Peter Davies & Andrea Hammel, ed. Edinburgh German Yearbook 8: New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2014, pp.199-216.
- Biddle I. . In: Purvis, P, ed. Masculinity in Opera: Gender, History, and New Musicology. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013, pp.197-215.
- Gibson Kirsten, Biddle Ian. . In: Marion Gerards, Martin Loeser and Katrin Losleben, ed. Musik und Männlichkeiten in Deutschland seit 1950. Munich, Germany: Allitera Verlag, 2013, pp.39-52.
- Biddle I, Fouz-Hernández S. . In: Shaw, L., Stone, R, ed. Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2012, pp.30-50.
- Biddle I. . In: Thompson, W., Biddle, I, ed. Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Somic Experience. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, pp.205-222.
- Biddle I. . In: Clarke, D., Clarke, E, ed. Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.65-77.
- Gibson K. . In: Biddle, I., Gibson, K, ed. Masculinity and Western Musical Practice. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp.41-66.
- Biddle I. . In: Biddle, I., Gibson, K, ed. Masculinity and Western Musical Practice. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp.259-277.
- Biddle I. . In: Jarman-Ivens, F, ed. Oh Boy!: Masculinities and Popular Music. London: Routledge, 2007, pp.125-144.
- Biddle I, Jarman-Ivens F. . In: Jarman-Ivens, F, ed. Oh Boy!: Masculinities and Popular Music. London; New York: Routledge, 2007, pp.1-28.
- Biddle I. . In: Clayton, M., Herbert, T., Middleton, R, ed. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. London & New York: Routledge, 2003, pp.215-226.
- Biddle I. . In: Shephard, J, ed. The Encyclopedia of Popular Musics of the World. London and New York: Continuum, 2002, pp.288-292.
- Biddle I. . In: Clark, S; Rehding, A, ed. Music Theory and Natural Order: from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.183-196.
- Biddle I. . In: Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2001.
- Biddle, Ian. 'F W.J. Schelling's Philosophie der Kunst: an Emergent Semiology of Music.'. In: Ian Bent, ed. Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.25-36.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
- Biddle I, Knights V. . In: V Conference of Latin American Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Edited Books
- Gibson K, Biddle I, ed. . London: Routledge, 2016.
- Biddle I, Thompson M, ed. . New York: Continuum, 2013.
- Biddle I, ed. . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.
- Biddle I, Gibson K, ed. . Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009.
- Biddle I, Knights V, ed. . London: Ashgate, 2006.