PhD Theses Completed since 2007

2021

• William Hofmann
  Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250 – 1600
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

• Cholong Sung
  The Music and Culture of the Korean Diaspora in London
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

2020

• Lorenzo Chiarofonte
  POWERFUL SOUNDS: MUSIC, DANCE AND RITUAL EFFICACY IN BURMESE NATKANA PWE SPIRIT POSSESSION CEREMONIES
  Supervisor: Nick Gray

• Rosalind Hawley
  Musicians in Hospital, a reflexive study
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Saeid Kordmafi
  Rhythmic Organization in the Classical Music of the Arab Mashriq
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Christian Poske (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with British Library)
  Continuity and Change: A Restudy of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s Research on the Devotional and Folk Music and Dance of Bengal 1925-1956
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

2019

• Fu Xuejiao
  Women and Western Art Music in Shanghai
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Rasika Ajotikar (Felix Scholarship)
  Music and the politics of caste and gender: women’s voices of liberation in Western India
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

2018

• Mu Qian
  The Ashiq of Khotan
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

2017

• Morgan Davies
  Musical Knowledge of the Langas and Manganiyars
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

2014

• Cloris Lim
  Nanyin Musical Culture in Southern Fujian, China: Adaptation and Continuity
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

2013

• Chloe Alaghband-Zadeh (AHRC)
  Analysing thumri
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

• Min Yen Ong
  Kunqu in 21st Century China - Musical Change and Amateur Practices
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

2010

• Jung Rock
  Seo Ancient Korean and Japanese Court Dance: Historical Relationship and Transmission: Case of Ch'oyongmu and Nasori
  Supervisor: Keith Howard/Richard Widdess

• Jyotsna Joanne Latrobe
  Red Earth Song: Marai Kirtan of Rarh: Devotional singing and the performance of ecstacy in the Purulia District, Bengal, India
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

• William Sumits
  The evolution of the maqam tradition in Central Asia: from the theory of 12 maqam to the practice of shashmaqam
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Sun Zhuo
  The Chinese Zheng Zither: 20th - 21st Century Transformations, 2010
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

2008

• David Kane (AHRC)
  Spreading the Word through Song: Music and Islamisation in Bengal
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

• Nicoletta Demetriou
  The Fones Discourse: Ideology and Practice in Greek Cypriot Folk Music
  Supervisor: Richard Widdess

• Shzr Ee Tan
  Ecosystems of Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Sheng-Shih Chi
  The Role of Popular Music in the Negotiation of Taiwanese Identity
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

Recently Awarded PhDs

• Philip Alexander
  Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Musical Practice, Historical Memory and the Contemporary City
  Supervisor: Ilana Webster-Kogen

• Ruard W. Absaroka
  Hidden Musicians and Public Musicking in Shanghai
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Deirdre A. Morgan
  Speaking in Tongues: Music, Identity, and Representation in Jew's Harp Communities
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Gavin Walker
  Communicating Crisis: Musical Effervescence in South African HIV/AIDS Interventions

• Nan Ma
  A Case Study of Chinese (Mainland China) Music Industries' Revenue Protection within The Digital Environment
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Violeta Ruano-Posada
  "Sahara Ma Timbah" ("The Sahara Is Not for Sale") Music, Resistance, and Exile in Saharawi Culture
  Supervisor: Lucy Durán

• Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
  The Mallorcan Bagpipes (Xeremies): An Anthropological Portrait of an Instrument
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Great Lekakul
  Prachan: Music, Competition, and Conceptual Fighting in Thai Culture
  Supervisor: Nick Gray

• Manuel Jimenez
  Bamboo Power: Performance in Gamelan Jegog and comparisons with UK gamelan performance
  Supervisor: Nick Gray

• Joseph Browning
  Cosmopolitan Natures: Music, Materiality and Place in the Global Shakuhachi Scene
  Supervisor: Angela Impey

• Flora Henderson
  Contemporary composition for shakuhachi and western instruments: timbral gesturality in the analysis of cross-cultural music
  Supervisor: Nick Gray

• Hyun Seok Kwon
  Cultural Globalization and the Korean Promotion Policy for Music Based on Tradition: A Study of the Activation Plan and Its Background
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Hyelim Kim
  Winds of Change: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegum Flute Performance
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Jutamas Poprasit
  The role of music in Thai funeral rituals in contemporary Bangkok: its history, performance and transmission
  Supervisor: David Hughes

• Kiku Day
  Remembrance of Things Past: The Archaic Shakuhachi in Contemporary Contexts
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Saida Daukeyeva
  Dombra Performance, Meaning and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs
  Supervisor: Owen Wright

• Sara McGuinness
  Grupo Lokito: A practice-based investigation into contemporary links between Congolese and Cuban popular music
  Supervisor: Angela Impey

• Christian Mau
  Situating the Myoan Kyokai: A Study of Suizen and the Fuke Shakuhachi
  Supervisor: David Hughes

• Moshe Morad
  Music as a ‘Space’ of Identity, Interaction and Escapism, among Gay Men in Special-period Havana
  Supervisor: Lucy Durán

• Sung-Hee Park
  Patronage and Creativity in Seoul: The Late 18th to late 19th Century Urban Middle Class and Its Vocal Music
  Supervisor: Rachel Harris

• Jutamas Poprasit
  The role of music in the Thai funeral ritual in contemporary Bangkok: its history, performance and transmission
  Supervisor: David Hughes

• Sabina Rakcheyeva
  Music as Cultural Diplomacy: A Personal Journey Using Improvisation as a Creative Tool
  Supervisor: Keith Howard

• Ilana Webster-Kogen
  The Azmari Paradox: Ethnicity, Identity, and Migration in Ethiopian-Israeli Music
  Supervisor: Abigail Wood

• Anna Yates-Lu
  P'ansori Today: Reconciling Tradition and Creativity in Modern Society
  Supervisor: Keith Howard