Professor Derek B. Scott

Musicologist & Composer
Chair of Music, University of Salford, England

R e s e a r c h  I n t e r e s t s :

Music, Culture and Society. Music and Ideology. Music and Sexuality. Popular Music in Britain and North America 1780 to the present. Founder member of the Critical Musicology Group 1993.

M a i n  P u b l i c a t i o n s :

The Singing Bourgeois: Songs of the Victorian Drawing Room and Parlour (Milton Keynes and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1989).

‘Music and Sociology for the 1990s: A Changing Critical Perspective’, The Musical Quarterly 74:3, 1990, pp.385-410.

‘Sexuality and Musical Style from Monteverdi to Mae West’, The Last Post: Music after Modernism, S. Miller (ed) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993), pp.132-49.

‘The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 119:1, 1994, pp.91-114.

‘Incongruity and Predictability in British Dance-Band Music of the 1920s and 1930s’, The Musical Quarterly 78:2, 1994, pp.290-315.

‘The Jazz Age’, Chapter 4 of the Blackwell History of Music in Britain Vol.6, S Banfield (ed) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp.57-78.

‘Postmodernism and Music’, The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought (ed S. Sim) (Cambridge: Icon Press, 1998), pp.134-46.

‘Cultuur, politiek en de Britse nationale hymne’, trans. Martine de Bruin, in L. Grijp (ed), Nationale hymnen: Het Wilhelmus en zijn buren (Amsterdam: SUN/Meertens Instituut, 1998), pp.112-27.

‘Orientalism and Musical Style’, The Musical Quarterly 82:2, 1998, pp.309-35.

Music, Culture and Society: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000), editor and author of preface, introduction, commentary and critique, and explanations of theoretical terms.

M u s i c :

16 published musical compositions 1986-95 (Da Capo, Fentone, and Saga/Seresta).