Dr Nicholas Attfield

Dr Nicholas Attfield

Department of Music
Associate Professor in Music

Contact details

Email
n.attfield@bham.ac.uk
Address
Room 108, Ashley Building
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a musicologist specialising in German music and culture from c.1870 to 1945. 

Qualifications

  • B.Mus. in Music (King’s College London)
  • M. St. in Musicology (University of Oxford)
  • D.Phil. in Musicology (University of Oxford)
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Biography

After completing my undergraduate degree in Music at King鈥檚 College London in 2002, I pursued masters and doctoral study at St. Catherine鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, with a year as Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton. In 2007 I was DAAD Michael Foster Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universit盲t, Berlin, and from 2007 to 2010 I held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Faculty of Music at Oxford. I have taught at numerous Oxford colleges, and was Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2011-12); from 2013-17 I was Lecturer in Music at Brunel University London, and Undergraduate Programmes Lead (2016-17).

Teaching

Modules I convene and/or teach on:

  • Romantic and Twentieth-Century Music: History and Analysis
  • Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
  • The Symphony from Sammartini to Sibelius
  • Aesthetics

Postgraduate supervision

I would be interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany and Austria
Symphony and opera
Music and politics

Research

I would welcome applications from students interested in the following research areas: the symphony in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; opera (particularly German-language opera) in the same period; music and politics in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich.

Publications

Highlight publications

Attfield, N 2020, . in P Potter, R Montemorra Marvin & C Baade (eds), Music and World War II : Coping with wartime in Europe and the United States. Indiana University, pp. 148-171.

Attfield, N 2020, . in N Loges & L Tunbridge (eds), German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Indiana University, pp. 244-261. <>

Attfield, N 2017, . in N Attfield & B Winters (eds), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear. Ashgate, pp. 93-112.

Attfield, N 2020, '', Oxford German Studies, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 380-400.

Attfield, N 2017, '', InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies, vol. 6.

Recent publications

Book

Attfield, N 2023, . Reaktion. <>

Attfield, N 2017, . Oxford University Press.

Attfield, N & Winters, B (eds) 2017, . Routledge.

Attfield, N 2011, . Continuum.

Article

Attfield, N 2023, '', Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 147, no. 2, pp. 417-448.

Attfield, N 2021, '', Punk & Post-Punk, vol. 10, no. 1.

Attfield, N 2010, '', The Opera Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 499-525.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Attfield, N 2012, . in S Fast & K Pegley (eds), Music, Politics and Violence. Wesleyan University Press, pp. 39-59.

Attfield, N 2010, . in P Brown & S Ograjen拧ek (eds), Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. Oxford University Press, pp. 340-68.

Attfield, N 2006, . in N Bacht (ed.), Music, Theatre and Politics in Germany: 1848 to the Third Reich. Ashgate, pp. 159-70.

Book/Film/Article review

Attfield, N 2022, '', Nineteenth-Century Music Review, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 629-633.

Attfield, N 2022, '', Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch.