Prof James Garratt
Professor of Music History and Aesthetics

Biography
James Garratt is Professor of Music History and Aesthetics at the University of Manchester, where he also holds the position of University Organist. He currently serves as Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Music.
James's research and teaching centre on German music, thought and culture in the long 19th century; aesthetic theory and the history of music aesthetics; and music, politics and political theory. His publications include three books:
Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
He is currently completing a further book for CUP on Music, Aesthetics and Values. Other current projects include two monographs: one on Music Beyond Art: Aesthetic Revisionism in German Musical Discourse; and one on Music, Religion and Ideology in Imperial Germany.
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QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- MA University of Oxford
- PhD Cardiff University
- ARCM Royal College of Music
- FHEA Higher Education Academy
- Member, Royal Musical Association, International Musicological Society
- Peer Review College Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Areas of expertise
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Publications
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Student Theses
UoM administered thesis: Phd
UoM administered thesis: Phd
UoM administered thesis: Phd