The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy
Edited by Tomás McAuley, Nanette Nielsen, Jerrold Levinson, and Associate Editor Ariana Phillips-Hutton
Author Information
Tomás McAuley is Assistant Professor of Music and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship) and Indiana University, and from 2010 to 2018 served as Founding Chair of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group. He is author of The Music of Philosophy: German Idealism and Musical Thought, from Kant to Schelling, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Nanette Nielsen is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. She joined Oslo in January 2015, after having been Associate Professor and Lecturer at the University of Nottingham (2009-15) and at the University of East Anglia (2005-9). Nielsen works on music and philosophy, especially intersections between ethics and aesthetics, on film music, opera and music criticism in the Weimar republic, and on Scandinavian music and culture. Her publications include the co-written book Music and Ethics (2012), the article 'Ernst Krenek's "problem of freedom" in Jonny spielt auf' (Twentieth-Century Music, 2013) - for which she won the 2014 Jerome Roche Prize - and the monograph Paul Bekker's Musical Ethics (2017).
Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990, 2nd ed. 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), Contemplating Art (2006), Musical Concerns (2015), and Aesthetic Pursuits (2016), plus a monograph, Music in the Moment (1998). Levinson is also editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (1998), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (2013), as well as co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001) and Art and Pornography (2012).
Ariana Phillips-Hutton is a Visiting Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on the philosophy, performance, and politics of contemporary music, with specialisations in memory, violence, and conflict transformation. Recent publications include journal articles in Twentieth-Century Music, Popular Music, and the Journal of the British Academy, and she is also the author of Music Transforming Conflict (2020).
Contributors:
Carolyn Abbate, Harvard University
Hanne Appelqvist, University of Helsinki
Jeremy Begbie, Duke Divinity School and University of Cambridge
Bruce Ellis Benson, University of Saint Andrews
Jeanette Bicknell, Independent Scholar
Paul Boghossian, New York University
Mark Evan Bonds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew Bowie, Royal Holloway, University of London
Scott Burnham, City University of New York
David Clarke, Newcastle University
Marcel Cobussen, Leiden University
Sarah Collins, University of Western Australia
Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge
Ian Cross, University of Cambridge
Armand D'Angour, University of Oxford
David Davies, McGill University
Stephen Davies, University of Auckland
Joanna Demers, University of Southern California
Julian Dodd, University of Manchester
Andreas Dorschel, University of the Arts, Graz
Joseph Dubiel, Columbia University
Michael Fend, King's College London
Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota
Theodore Gracyk, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary
Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College
J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Royal Holloway, University of London
Christopher Hasty, Harvard University
Stephen Hinton, Stanford University
Simon Høffding, University of Oslo
John Irving, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Freya Jarman, University of Liverpool
Julian Johnson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jenny Judge, New York University
Andrew Kania, Trinity University
Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University
Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford
Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland
Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Derek Matravers, The Open University
Tomás McAuley, University College Dublin
Susan McClary, Case Western Reserve University
Matthew D. Morrison, New York University
Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp
Jean-Luc Nancy, The European Graduate School
Nanette Nielsen, University of Oslo
Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff
Charles O. Nussbaum, University of Texas at Arlington
Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Max Paddison, Durham University
Christopher Peacocke, Columbia University
Ariana Phillips-Hutton, University of Cambridge
Alexander Rehding, Harvard University
Stephen Decatur Smith, Stony Brook University
Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Michael Spitzer, University of Liverpool
Paul Thom, University of Sydney
Elizabeth Tolbert, Peabody Institute
Gary Tomlinson, Yale University
Naomi Waltham-Smith, University of Warwick
Nick Zangwill, University College London
