Kirsten Gibson Author & Editor

Ian Biddle is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music- and sound-related areas. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal Radical Musicology and is co-convenor, with Beate MA ller, of the Newcastle University Genocide Research Group. His work deals with: the cultural history of music and masculinity; music's intervention in communities and subjectivities; sound, soundscapes and urban experience; the politics of noise. He has interests in Holocaust studies, memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory and psychoanalysis. He is author of Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History: The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud (Ashgate, 2011), editor of Music and Identity Politics (Ashgate, 2012), co-editor, with Kirsten Gibson, of Masculinity and Western Musical Practice (Ashgate, 2009) and co-editor of Sound, Music Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience (2013). Kirsten Gibson's research has focused on John Dowlanda (TM)s printed songbooks, Elizabethan court politics, early modern musical print culture and discourses of music and masculinity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Her work appears in Early Music History, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Renaissance Studies and Early Music as well as in various essay collections. She is co-editor, with Ian Biddle, of Masculinity and Western Musical Practice (Ashgate, 2009).