Edward Campbell

  • Artist

Dr Edward Campbell is senior lecturer in music at the University of Aberdeen and a member of the university’s Centre for Modern Thought. He specialises in contemporary European art music and aesthetics including historical, analytical and aesthetic approaches to European modernism, the music and writings of Pierre Boulez, contemporary European opera and the interrelation of musical thought and critical theory. He is the author of the books Boulez, Music and Philosophy (CUP, 2010) and Music after Deleuze (Bloomsbury 2013) and is coeditor/contributor to Pierre Boulez Studies (CUP, forthcoming in 2016). He is currently working as co-editor on The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia as well as a book on the importance of Asian and African music for French composers since Debussy.

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Finding the Beauty and Wonder in Modern Music