Presto Music Classical Podcast, Episode 22: Musicological Musings with Daniel Elphick

This week's topic concerns musicology and musicologists... what is it, who are they, and what exactly do they get paid to do? So who better to ask than one of them, Daniel Elphick, a musicologist and researcher who has recently started his own YouTube channel which sets out to demystify things for the layman. Daniel is currently working as a Teaching Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London (having also taught at Manchester, Goldsmiths, and Buckinghamshire New University), his research focusing on the history and analysis of Russian and East-European music since the nineteenth century, as well as music and politics more broadly. Dan’s first book, Music Behind the Iron Curtain, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and he is currently preparing a volume on socialist realism and music.

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