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Stephen Banfield MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon) FRCO

Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music
Head of the School of Arts

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Background

Stephen Banfield is known for his work on American musical theatre and British music of the 19th and 20th centuries. While still active in both fields, he is currently researching the history of music in the British Empire and music in the western region of England, including Bristol and Bath, focussing on locality and translocality. In accordance with this, in 2006 he founded CHOMBEC, Bristol University's Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, with music in the west country and the music of the anglophone diaspora as two strands of its teaching, research and scholarly networking. His next publications will be an annotated anthology of newspaper readings from around the British world, 1763-1901 and a social history of music in the west country, From Abbotsbury to Zennor.

 

 

The cover of the book, "Music and the Wesleys"The cover of the book, "The Sounds of Stonehenge" The cover of the book, "Jerome Kern"

The cover of the book, "Finzi" The cover of the book, "Sensibility and English Song"The cover of the book, "Sondheim's Broadway Musicals"