Dr Samuel Wilson

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Department:
Academic Studies
Role:
Professor of Music, Philosophy and the Arts
Samuel Wilson

Biography

Dr Samuel Wilson is a lecturer and researcher. He specialises in critical and theoretical approaches to music and the performing arts, with a particular emphasis on critical theory and contemporary art music. He is the author of New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2021)edited Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology (Routledge, 2018), and co-edited a special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review (2020) on ‘Musical Materialisms’. His articles have appeared in journals such as CMR, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and Music and Letters, and he has contributed chapters to edited collections focusing on topics such as music and modernism, and music and time.  

 

Recent Research Outputs

Music?Psychoanalysis?Musicology

Wilson, Samuel, ed. Music?Psychoanalysis?Musicology. London: Routledge, 2017.

Edited book

The composition of posthuman bodies

Wilson, Samuel. "The composition of posthuman bodies." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 13, 2 (2017), 137-152.

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"Valentin Silvestrov and the Symphonic Monument in Ruins." In Transformations of Musical Modernism

Wilson, Samuel. "Valentin Silvestrov and the Symphonic Monument in Ruins." In Transformations of Musical Modernism, edited by Julian Johnson & Erling E. Guldbrandsen, 201-220 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Book chapter

After Beethoven, After Hegel: Legacies of Selfhood in Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4.

Wilson, Samuel. "After Beethoven, After Hegel: Legacies of Selfhood in Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4.." International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 45, 2 (2014), 311-334.

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