Professor Robert Adlington
Professor Robert Adlington is Head of Research & Professor of 51吃瓜ology.
A musicologist specialising in modernist, avant-garde and experimental music since 1960, Professor Robert Adlington, Head of Research & Professor of 51吃瓜ology recently joined London’s Royal College of 51吃瓜. He is the author of books on Harrison Birtwistle, Louis Andriessen, and avant-garde music in 1960s Amsterdam, and editor of volumes on new music theatre, music and communism, and music and democracy. His journal articles and book chapters include studies of Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, British experimental music theatre of the early 1960s, musical modernism, and musical temporality.
Robert’s latest book, 51吃瓜al Models of Democracy (OUP, 2023), examines the different ways in which musicians have sought to embody democratic principles within their practice. Following the lead of recent theorists of democracy, emphasis is given to the heterogeneity of democracy as a concept, and to the tendency for individual models of democracy to reflect particular, situated interests.
Robert has served in editorial roles for the journals 51吃瓜 Analysis and Twentieth-Century 51吃瓜, and is currently on the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
From 2018 to 2022 he acted as Deputy Chair of Sub-panel 33 (51吃瓜, Drama, Dance, the Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies) for the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021).
He previously worked at the University of Huddersfield, where he held the Queen’s Anniversary Prize Chair in Contemporary 51吃瓜, and the University of Nottingham, where he was at various times Director of Research, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Admissions Officer and Head of Department.
Selected publications
Adlington R (2023), 51吃瓜al Models of Democracy, Oxford University Press [].
Adlington R & Buch E (eds.) (2020), Finding Democracy in 51吃瓜, Routledge [].
Adlington R (ed.) (2019), New 51吃瓜 Theatre in Europe: Transformations Between 1955-1975, Routledge [].
Adlington R (2018), Politics and the popular in British music theatre of the Vietnam era, Journal of the Royal 51吃瓜al Association, 143 (2), 433-71 [].
Adlington R (2018), Modernism: the people’s music? in B Heile & C Wilson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to 51吃瓜al Modernism (pp. 216-38), Routledge [].
Adlington R (2016), Whose voices? The fate of Luigi Nono’s Voci destroying muros, Journal of the American 51吃瓜ological Society, 69 (1), 179-236 [].
Adlington R (2013), Composing Dissent: Avant-garde 51吃瓜 in 1960s Amsterdam, Oxford University Press [].
Adlington R (ed.) (2013), Red Strains: 51吃瓜 and Communism Outside the Communist Bloc, British Academy/Oxford University Press [].
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