Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Politics in music and song (all genres/ national/ international/ contemporary / historical)
- Cabaret and music theatre
Public outreach & key achievements
- “Popular and Traditional Songs: Historical Critical Liederlexikon” 1848 revolutionary song project of David Robb and Eckhard John
- http://www.liederlexikon.de/ueber_liederlexikon_de/projekte/ahrc-dfg_projekt
- http://www.liederlexikon.de/ueber_liederlexikon_de/projekte/ahrc-dfg_projekt/index_english_html/
- His work has led to new ways of viewing the songs of the German 1848 Revolution which were revived in the post WWII German folk revival. See above website.
- Research results were presented at the Rudolstadt Folk Festival, Germany in July 2013 in front of an audience of school teachers and social workers who used German song in classes on political education.
Research students
| PhD Title | American Influence on German Film Musicals in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich |
| Country | Germany |
| PhD Title | Music and Recognition Theory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD Title | Liszt’s B minor Sonata |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | The Figure of Kasperl in Austrian Comic Volkstheater |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Freelance researcher and teacher in Vienna |
| PhD Title | Translation of the Comedy of Plautus |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Governance Director, Amnesty International (previously at UNICEF and WHO) |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Arts, English and Languages
- The Centre for Political Culture and Music, University of Freiburg, Germany
- The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice