Jeremy Barham

Professor Jeremy Barham


Professor of Music
BA (Hons) (Dunelm), ALCM, PGCE, MMus, PhD
+44 (0)1483 686549
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Academic and research departments

Music and Media.

About

News

In the media

2018
2018
Presenter
Philharmonia Orchestra
2016
Presenter
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
2014
Presenter
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
2013
Presenter
London Proms
2011
Mahler and Liszt, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Fesival Hall
Presenter
London Philharmonic Orchestra
2011
Mahler and Zemlinsky, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
Presenter
London Philharmonic Orchestra
2011
Mahler the arranger, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
Presenter
London Philharmonic Orchestra
2011
Mahler orchestral songs, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
Presenter
London Philharmonic Orchestra
2010
Mahler Anniversary, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
2010
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Austrian Cultural Forum/Gustav Mahler Society UK

Research

Research interests

Research projects

Hollywood's Music Contemporaries and Competitors in the Early Sound Film Era
Mahler Centenary Conference 'Gustav Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?' [糖心Vlog]
Introducing Mahler Symphony No. 5

Supervision

Postgraduate research supervision

Teaching

Publications

Highlights

PUBLICATIONS LIST

IN PROGRESS

    Contracted monographs

  • Post-Centenary Mahler: Revaluing Musical Meaning (Indiana University Press, completion 2018)
  • Music, Time and the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, completion 2019)

    Contracted edited volume

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era

     Book chapters

  • 鈥楨ternally Feminine: Cultural Representations of Womanhood in the Scoring of Leni Riefenstahl鈥檚 Das blaue Licht鈥 in The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era, above
  • 鈥榃hen is a Musical Film not a Film Musical? Diegetic and Generic Complexity in Germany鈥檚 First Sound Films鈥, in The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era, above

     Journal articles

  • 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Musical Rhetoric: Ethos, Pathos and Logos鈥 (2019) 
  • 鈥樷淔oundations鈥 and 鈥淎bysses鈥: Mahler, Postmodernism and the Category Problem of a Multiple Avant Garde鈥 (2020)
  • 鈥楾urning Outside In: Narratives of Emancipation in the Development of John Coltrane鈥檚 My Favorite Things鈥 (2021)

IN PRESS

    Book chapter

  • 鈥極utside the Frame: Live-Score Film Screenings and the Cinematic Experience鈥, in The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, ed. Carlo Cenciarelli
  • 'Literary Enthusiasms', in Mahler in Context, ed. Charles Youmans (Cambrudge University Press)

 

 

PUBLISHED

Books, book chapters and book series

  • Rethinking Mahler (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • The Music and Sound of Experimental Cinema, co-edited with Holly Rogers (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • 鈥楤irth and Death of the Cool: the Glorious Afflictions of Jazz on Screen鈥, in The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, eds Miguel Mera, Ron Sadoff, and Ben Winters (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 375鈥87
  • 鈥楳ahler and the Game of History鈥, in Rethinking Mahler , ed. Jeremy Barham (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 315鈥51
  • 鈥楾he Music of Gustav Mahler in Experimental Film Contexts: Questions of Visual Music and Intermedial Theory鈥, in The Music and Sound of Experimental Cinema, eds Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 283鈥302
  • 鈥樷淢it der Dummheit k盲mpfen G枚tter selbst vergebens鈥. Mahler, the Politics of Reason, and the Metaphysics of Spiritualism鈥, invited contribution to Naturlauf: Scholarly Journeys Toward Gustav Mahler, Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange at His Ninetieth Birthday, ed. Paul-Andr茅 Bemp茅chat (Bern: Lang, 2016), pp. 73鈥109
  • 鈥楳usic and the Moving Image鈥, invited chapter in Aesthetics of music. Musicological Perspectives, ed. Stephen Downes (New York & London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 224鈥38
  •    鈥樷淎 Time of Gifts鈥: Mahler鈥檚 Eighth, Fassbinder鈥檚 Cinema, and Musical Politics鈥 invited chapter in Elisabeth Kappel (ed.), The Total Work of Art: Mahler鈥檚 Eighth Symphony in Context. Studien zur Wertungsforschung 52 (Vienna & London: Universal Edition, 2011), pp. 61鈥80
  •    鈥樷淢ade in Germany鈥: Mahler, Musicological Imperialism and the Decentred Self鈥, invited chapter in Federico Celestini, Gregor Kokorz and Julian Johnson (eds), Musik in der Moderne/Music and Modernism, Wiener Ver枚ffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 9 (K枚ln, Weimar und Wien: B枚hlau, 2011), pp. 91鈥103 
  • 鈥楧ismembering the Musical Voice: Mahler, Melodrama and Dracula from Stage to Screen鈥 invited chapter in Sarah Hibberd (ed.), Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 309鈥47.
  •    鈥楳ahler鈥檚 鈥渧erkehrte Welt鈥. Fechner, 鈥楲earned Satire鈥 and the Third Movement of Symphony No. 3鈥 invited chapter in Erich Partsch & Morten Solvik (eds), Mahler in His Cultural Context/Mahler im kulturellen Kontext (Vienna: B枚hlau Verlag, 2011) pp. 169鈥98.
  •    鈥楳ahler and Socio-Cultural Nomadism: the Case of the Fifth Symphony鈥 invited chapter in Arnold   Jacobshagen (ed.), Beitr盲ge z. symposium 鈥楩erne Heimatkl盲nge 鈥 Gustav Mahler und die Moderne鈥 K枚ln May 2010 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011), pp. 57鈥68
  •   Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz (series editor; New York: Oxford University Press, from 2011):

Brian Harker, Louis Armstrong鈥檚 Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Keith Waters, The Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965鈥68

Peter Elsdon, Keith Jarrett: The K枚ln Concert

Catherine Tackley, Benny Goodman. The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

Gabriel Solis, Thelonious Monk and John  Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

Mervyn Cooke, Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1976鈥1984

George Burrows, Andy Kirk鈥檚 Clouds of Joy

Stephen Crist, Dave Brubeck鈥檚 Time Out

 

  • 鈥楳补丑濒别谤, Heimat and Randkultur: Musical Politics of Centre and Periphery鈥, in Mathieu Schneider & Beat Foellmi (eds), Music and the Construction of National Identities in the 19th Century (Baden Baden & Bouxwiller: Editions Valentin Koerner, 2010), pp. 267鈥82
  • 鈥業ncorporating Monsters: Music as Context, Character and Construction in Kubrick鈥檚 The Shining鈥, book chapter in Philip Hayward (ed.), Terror Tracks. Music and Sound in Horror Cinema (London: Equinox Press, 2009), pp. 137鈥70 
  • The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (Cambridge, 2007); editor and contributor of chapter 鈥楯uvenilia and Early Works: From the First Song Fragments to Das klagende Lied鈥, pp. 51鈥71 
  • Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Time and Work; translation, with critical essay and commentary, of Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, 鈥楪ustav Mahler: neue Erkentnisse zu seinem Leben, seiner Zeit, seinem Werk鈥 (unpubl., 1945). 鈥楪uildhall Research Studies鈥 (London & Aldershot: Guildhall School of Music and Drama & Ashgate, 2007)
  • Perspectives on Gustav Mahler (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005); editor and contributor of chapter 鈥楳ahler the Thinker: the Books of the Alma Mahler-Werfel Collection鈥, pp. 37鈥151 
  • 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 First Compositions: Piano Quartet and Songs鈥, in Donald Mitchell & Andrew Nicholson (eds.) The Mahler Companion (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 597鈥607

 

Journal articles and reviews

  • 鈥楾he Ghost in the Machine: 惫辞濒办蝉迟眉尘濒颈肠丑 Appropriations in Mahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony鈥, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 15/3 (December 2018): 353-90
  • 鈥樷淣ot Necessarily Mahler鈥: Remix, Samples and Borrowing in the Age of 鈥淲iki鈥濃, Contemporary Music Review, 33/2 (2014): 1鈥20
  • 鈥楶rogramming Mahler: Meaning, Redescription, and the Post-Adornian Counterlife鈥, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (issue guest edited by Jeremy Barham: 鈥楳ahler: Centenary Commentaries on Musical Meaning鈥, 8/2 (November 2011)): 255鈥71
  • 鈥楻ecurring Dreams and Moving Images: the Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann鈥檚 Op. 15 no. 7鈥, 19th-Century Music 34/3 (Spring 2011): 271鈥301
  • 鈥楶lundering Cultural Archives and Transcending Diegetics: Mahler鈥檚 Music as 鈥淥verscore鈥濃, Music and the Moving Image (Illinois), 3/1 (2010): 1鈥24
  • 鈥楻hizomes and Plateaus: Rethinking Jazz Historiography and the Jazz-Classical Relationship鈥, Jazz Research Journal 3/2 (2009): 171鈥202
  • 鈥楽coring Incredible Futures: Science Fiction Screen Music, and 鈥淧ost-Modernism鈥 as Romantic Epiphany鈥, The Musical Quarterly, 91 (2008): 240鈥74 
  • 鈥楳补丑濒别谤, Music and the Moving Image: Beyond Death in Venice鈥, Nachrichten zur Mahler-Forschung, Vienna, 57 (Spring 2008): 26鈥46
  • Review of K. M. Knittel, Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Si猫cle Vienna (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), Music & Letters, 93/2 (2012): 255鈥7
  • Review of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft鈥檚 Critical Edition of Mahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 5/2 (2008): 166鈥69 
  • Review of Gustav Mahler: Briefe und Musikautographen aus den Moldenhauer-Archiven in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek und Kulturstiftung der L盲nder, March 2003) Music & Letters, 87/1 (2006): 147鈥53  
  • Review of CD recording of Mahler songs (Stephan Genz & Roger Vignoles), Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 3/1 (2006): 144鈥7 
  • Review of Bernd Schabbing, Gustav Mahler als Konzert- und Operndirigent in Hamburg (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2002), Music & Letters 85/4 (2004): 649鈥53 
  • Review of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft鈥檚 Critical Edition of three-movement version of Mahler鈥檚 Das klagende Lied, Music & Letters 83/1 (2002): 177鈥80 
  • Review of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft鈥檚 Critical Edition of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Music & Letters 83/2 (2002): 330鈥33 

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

  • Invited BBC Radio 3 pre-Proms talk on Mahler鈥檚 Fourth Symphony, Royal Albert Hall, London (August 2018)
  • Invited paper, 鈥楳usic, Temporality and the Hyperreal in Recent Documentary Films by Adam Curtis鈥, 10th Meeting of the International Musicological Society Music and Media Study Group, University of Salamanca (13鈥16 June 2018)
  • Invited pre-concert lecture, Philharmonia Orchestra, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Mahler Symphony 4, cond. Lahav Shani, Royal Festival Hall, (February 2018)
  • Invited research seminar, Oxford University, 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony and Thomas Koschat: an Enigma Resolved?鈥 (April 2017)
  • Invited research seminar, University of Edinburgh, 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony and Thomas Koschat: an Enigma Resolved?鈥, (March 2017)
  • Old is New: the Presence of the Past in the Music of the Present Conference, Lisbon (November 2016), paper: 鈥業n with the Old and Out with the New: Remixing Mahler and the Problems of Technological Historicism鈥
  • Invited pre-concert lecture, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Symphony 4, cond. Donald Runnicles (November 2016)
  • Invited paper 鈥楽tages of De-Composition or Paths to Enlightenment? Visual Music, and Mahler as Experimental Film Commodity鈥 at Conference Toblach Mahler Musikwochen 2016 (Dobbiaco/Toblach Italy, June 2016)
  • Invited study lecture, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mahler and performance practice, Southbank Centre (April 2016)
  • AMS, Louisville KY (November 2015), invited paper 鈥楾he Ghost in the Machine: 惫辞濒办蝉迟眉尘濒颈肠丑 Appropriations in Mahler鈥檚 Fifth Symphony鈥 on panel 鈥楢llusion, Remembrance, and Interpretation in Mahler鈥檚 Music鈥
  • Ninth International Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Glasgow (September 2015), paper: 鈥楳ahler and the Paradoxes of Social Liberalism in Early Modernist Austria鈥
  • Listening Cinematically Conference, Royal Holloway (June 2015), invited paper: 鈥極utside the Frame: Live-Score Film Screenings and the Cinematic Experience鈥
  • Research seminar: 鈥楾he Birth and Death of the Cool: Jazz鈥檚 Screen Afflictions鈥, 糖心Vlog University, May 2015
  • Hollywood鈥檚 Musical Contemporaries and Competitors in the Early Sound-Film Era Conference, 糖心Vlog (July 2014), paper: 鈥楨ternally Feminine. Cultural Representations of Womanhood in Leni Riefenstahl鈥檚 Das blaue Licht鈥
  • Music and Screen Media Conference, University of Liverpool (June 2014), paper: 鈥楳adness and Dysfunctionality: Jazz鈥檚 Screen Burden鈥
  • Two invited pre-concert talks, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow City Halls, and Usher Hall Edinburgh, Mahler Symphony no. 9 (April 2014)
  • Invited lecture 鈥楾he Organ in the Movies鈥, Southbank Centre Organ Festival (March 2014)
  • RMA Annual Conference, London (September 2013), invited speaker on panel 鈥楳usic in films: ethical-aesthetic discursive disruptions鈥, paper: 鈥楨ternally Feminine: Cultural Representations of Womanhood in the Scoring of Early Sound Films from Weimar-Republic Germany鈥
  • Invited panelist, BBC Radio 3 Proms Plus: Mahler, Symphony no. 2 (August 2013)
  • Music and the Moving Image Conference, NYU Steinhardt (May 2013), paper: 鈥楳usic in Germany鈥檚 Earliest Sound Films: an Archival and Cultural Investigation鈥
  • Annual Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group (with the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group), King鈥檚 College London (July 2012), paper: 鈥樷淣ot Necessarily Mahler鈥: Composed Artefacts, Samples, and the Philosophy of 鈥淲iki鈥濃
  • Seventeenth Biennial International Conference On Nineteenth-Century Music, Edinburgh University (June 2012), paper: 鈥樷淟aughter and Forgetting鈥: the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of March and Dance in Mahler鈥檚 Music鈥
  • Theories of Time & Music Conference, The Ionian University, Corfu (April 2012), paper: 鈥楩rom Montage to Moment: Extremes of Music鈥檚 Temporal Agency in Screen Media鈥
  • Invited research colloquium: 鈥楧elusion, untimeliness, immemory? Fragments of improper music historiography from Mahler to Jazz and beyond鈥, Nottingham University (Jan. 2012)
  • Radical Music History Symposium, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (December 2011), paper: 鈥業mproper Historiography: Mahler, the Rhizome and Economies of Proliferation鈥
  • Leeds Film Music Conference, Leeds University (September 2011), paper: 鈥楩rom Montage to Moment: Extremes of Music鈥檚 Temporal Agency in Screen Media鈥
  • Chichester International Film Festival (August 2011), invited talk: 鈥楳ahler and the Moving Image鈥
  • Gustav Mahler Centenary Conference: 鈥楳ahler Contemporary of the Past?鈥, 糖心Vlog (July 2011), paper: 鈥楾he History Game鈥
  • After Mahler鈥檚 Death: International Gustav Mahler Symposium, Vienna (Konzerthaus) (May 2011), invited paper: 鈥楳ahler on Screen: Truth, Translation, Travesty?鈥
  • International Conference Time鈥檚 Excesses & Eccentricities: Music, Literature and Art, Universit茅 de Caen Basse-Normandie (May 2011), paper: 鈥楳usical Temporality and the Moving Image: Culture, Kinesis and Chronology鈥
  • Invited pre-concert talk for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall (May, 2011): 鈥楾he Universe Bursts Into Song: Mahler and his Eighth Symphony鈥
  • Invited study day, Austrian Cultural Forum London (April 2011), on Mahler Symphony 3
  • Invited series of five pre-concert talks for LPO鈥檚 Mahler anniversary season, Royal Festival Hall (September 2010-May 2011), (available as podcasts, and supplemented with essay and interview with Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski in LPO 2010-11 Yearbook)
  • Invited panelist, Radio 3 Discovering Music broadcast (March 2011), Mahler Symphony 2 
  • Invited research seminar, Birmingham University (February 2011): 鈥楳ahler in the Marketplace: Cultural Capitalism and its Discontents鈥
  • A Work of Art of Higher Artistic Order. Text and Context of Mahler's Eighth Symphony Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, (June 2010), invited paper: 鈥樷淎 Time of Gifts鈥: Mahler鈥檚 Eighth, Fassbinder鈥檚 Cinema, and Musical Politics鈥
  • Ferne Heimatkl盲nge. Gustav Mahler und die Moderne Conference (MusikTriennale K枚ln), Philharmonie & Hochschule f眉r Musik und Tanz, Cologne (May 2010), invited paper: 鈥楳ahler and Socio-Cultural Nomadism: the Case of the Fifth Symphony鈥
  • Invited Mahler study day, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (April 2010)
  • Invited talk for LSO study day: Mahler Wunderhorn songs, LSO St Luke鈥檚 (November 2009)
  • Invited panelist, BBC Radio 3 Proms Plus discussion: Mahler Symphony 9 (July 2009)
  • Music and the Moving Image Conference, NYU Steinhardt (May 2009), paper: 鈥楥hronicling Motion: Music as Temporalizing Agency in Experimental and Mainstream Screen Media鈥
  • Music Theory and Analysis - Seventh Annual Conference, University of Arts, Belgrade (May 2009), paper: 鈥楻icoeurian Narrative Structures, 19th-Century Cognitive Models, and the 鈥淎nxiety of Decadence鈥 in the First Movement of Mahler鈥檚 Third Symphony鈥
  • Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds University (March 2009), paper: 鈥楻oots, Rhizomes and Plateaus: Rethinking Jazz Historiography and the Jazz-Classical Relationship鈥
  • Invited pre-concert talk for London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall (February 2009): 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 arrangement of Beethoven Symphony No. 9鈥
  • Research seminar, 糖心Vlog (December 2008): 鈥楻ecurring Dreams: the Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann鈥檚 Op. 15 no. 7鈥
  • New Jazz Histories Symposium, University of Salford (November 2008), paper: 鈥楧iffering Roots, Unpopular Histories: Radicalism as Meeting of Minds in Jazz-Classical Aesthetics鈥
  • Music and the Melodramatic Aesthetic Conference, Nottingham University (September 2008), paper: 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Apocalypse: Symphony 2 and Virtual Melodrama鈥
  • Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University (July 2008), paper: 鈥楶lundering Cultural Archives: Mahler鈥檚 Music as 鈥淥verscore鈥濃
  • Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College, Dublin (June 2008), paper: 鈥楳补丑濒别谤, Dynamics and the 19th-Century Psychological Turn鈥
  • Music and the Moving Image Conference, NYU Steinhardt (May-June 2008), paper: 鈥楶lundering Cultural Archives: Mahler鈥檚 Music as 鈥淥verscore鈥濃
  • Music and the Construction of National Identities Conference, Strasbourg University (Oct 2007), invited paper: 鈥楳补丑濒别谤, Heimat and Randkultur: Musical Politics of Centre and Periphery鈥
  • International Conference: Sound, Music & the Moving Image, IMR, University of London (September 2007), paper: 鈥楶ostmodernism as Romantic Epiphany: the Bachian Intertext in Film Scoring鈥
  • Gustav Mahler. Interpretation and Reception Conference, University of Saarbr眉cken (June 2007): invited paper 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Screen Persona: Music, Mythologies and the Moving Image鈥
  • Research seminar, 糖心Vlog (June 2007): 鈥楩iring Canons and Targeting the Logos in Musicology: Some Critical Perspectives鈥
  • Royal Musical Association 42nd Annual Conference 鈥楳usic and Visual Cultures鈥, Nottingham University (July 2006), paper:  鈥楾emporal Relations in Music and Screen Media鈥
  • Invited research seminar, University of Sheffield (March 2006): 鈥楪ustav Mahler: the Lost Rosenzweig Manuscript鈥
  • Invited research seminar, University of East Anglia (December 2005): 鈥楾echnology, the Metropolis and Science-Fiction Film Music鈥
  • Invited pre-concert lecture, Gustav Mahler Society UK, The Anvil Basingstoke (September 2005): 鈥楳ahler鈥檚 Sixth Symphony鈥
  • Music in der Moderne Symposium, University of Graz (July 2004), invited paper: 鈥樷淢ade in Germany鈥: Mahler, Musicological Imperialism and the Decentred Self鈥
  • 13th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Durham (July 2004), paper: 鈥楳ahler and the Melodramatic Imagination鈥
  • Third International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, Nottingham University (June 2003), paper: 鈥樷淢ade in Germany鈥: Musicological Imperialism and a Recently Discovered Mahler Study by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig鈥
  • Research seminar, 糖心Vlog (February 2003): 鈥業ncorporating Monsters: Music of Utopia and Dystopia in Science Fiction and Horror Film Genres鈥
  • Royal Musical Association 38th annual Conference, Glasgow University (November-December 2002), paper: 鈥楳usic of the Future: the Appropriation of 19th-Century Repertoire in Paramount鈥檚 鈥淪tar Trek: Voyager鈥濃
  • International Musicological Society, 17th International Congress, University of Leuven (August 2002), paper: 鈥楾he Cinematic in Gustav Mahler鈥