The University of Leeds

Faculty Member, Music

Professor of Critical Musicology and Head of School of Music

School of Music

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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/ds

I'm copying the research interests section from that page below:

Derek B. Scott researches into music, culture and ideology. His earlier work examines the commercial popular songs of nineteenth-century Britain and America in the context of social class, nationalism, and imperialism. In later research, he develops methodologies and theoretical models for a critical musicological investigation of how ideology is embedded in musical styles. He concentrates on music’s relationship with leading social topics from the past two centuries: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, Orientalism, race, class, and the opposition of the sacred and profane. Recent work has focused on cultural history, especially the rise of aesthetic antagonisms between the serious and the entertaining in metropolitan life. His argument is that a popular music revolution occurred in the nineteenth century, when popular styles first began to assert their distinctiveness. London, New York, Paris, and Vienna feature prominently as cities in which original forms of popular music arose, like the Viennese waltz and polka, blackface minstrelsy, operetta, café-concert, music hall, the black musical, ragtime, vaudeville, and cabaret. The legacy of that revolution is still with us today, and he has written on a variety of twentieth-century music, such as jazz, easy listening, musicals, and Britpop.

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