Biography

Jeremy Barham studied at the Universities of Durham and Surrey, gaining his PhD in 1998 with a thesis on Mahler's Third Symphony and its relation to late 19th-century German philosophy and culture. He joined the staff in 2003, having previously taught at Surrey and at Trinity College of Music in London from 1997-2002. As well as the music of Gustav Mahler, his wide-ranging research interests include 19th- and early 20th-century music history and aesthetics, interdisciplinary and contextual studies such as philosophy and music, music and literature, critical and cultural theory, theories of musical meaning, music and the moving image and jazz. He has been the recipient of four British Academy scholarships and bursaries, a Music & Letters Trust grant, and an award from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in support of this work. In 2009 he was awarded the Donald Tovey Memorial Prize by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, for his work on Mahler.  

His publications include a chapter on Mahler's early compositions in OUP's The Mahler Companion (rev. edn, 2002), a volume of Mahler studies for Ashgate, Perspectives on Gustav Mahler (2005), a translation and critical edition of the recently discovered manuscript on the composer by Alfred Rosenzweig, Gustav Mahler. New Insights into his Life, Times and Work (Ashgate/GSMD 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (as editor, 2007), a chapter on the music in Kubrick’s The Shining in Terror Tracks. Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (Equinox, 2009), and articles on science-fiction film scoring (The Musical Quarterly, 2008), the appropriation of Mahler and Schumann on screen (Music and the Moving Image (Illinois), 2010, and 19th-Century Music, 2011), and jazz historiography (Journal of Jazz Research, 2009). He is currently working on the monographs Music, Time and the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press), and Mahler, Music, Culture: Discourses of Meaning (Indiana University Press), and is series editor of the monograph collection Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz (2011-).

Jeremy is active as an organist and keyboard accompanist, having toured around the country and Europe as a former member of the McVicker & Barham Organ Duo, with performances in Westminster Abbey and the cathedrals of Westminster, Winchester, Chester, Newcastle, Southwark, St. Alban's, St. Edmundsbury and Durham, as well as at Oxford Town Hall, the Brangwyn Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Warrington Town Hall, the McEwan Hall and the chapel of King's College Cambridge. He performs regularly with choirs and orchestras in London and the South East, has broadcast performances on BBC Radio 2, 4 and World Service, and recorded on three commercial CDs.

During the Mahler anniversary years he has given numerous public lectures, study days and talks, including a 'Discovering Music' BBC Radio 3 programme on the Second Symphony, and a series of pre-concert discussions for the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Mahler season, 2010-11, at the Southbank. He convened the three-day 'Gustav Mahler Centenary Conference: "Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?"' at the University of Surrey, July, 2011, comprising over thirty papers and panel discussions from an international array of scholars, composers and experts, as well as performances by Uri Caine and the Endymion Ensemble.

E-mail: J.Barham@surrey.ac.uk

Research Interests

• The music and culture of Gustav Mahler and early modernism
• Interdisciplinary studies: music and philosophy, music and literature, music and meaning, critical/cultural theory
• Music and the moving image
• Jazz

Funded Research project  - Mahler, Music, Culture: Discourses of Meaning

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

• ‘“A Time of Gifts”: Mahler’s Eighth, Fassbinder’s Cinema, and Musical Politics’ in Peter Revers (ed.), Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Studien zur Wertungsforschung (Vienna & London: Universal Edition, forthcoming, 2011)

• ‘Mahler and Socio-Cultural Nomadism: the Case of the Fifth Symphony’ in Arnold Jacobshagen (ed.), Beiträge z. symposium ‘Ferne Heimatklänge – Gustav Mahler und die Moderne’ Köln May 2010 (forthcoming, 2011)

• ‘Programming Mahler: Meaning, Redescription, and the Post-Adornian Counterlife’, under review at Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Centenary Issue ‘The Meaning of Mahler’, ed. Jeremy Barham)

• ‘Recurring Dreams and Moving Images: the Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann’s Op. 15 no. 7’, 19th-Century Music, 34/3, pp. 271–301; special Film issue

• ‘“Foundations” and “abysses”: Mahler, Postmodernism and the Category Problem of a Multiple Avant Garde’ in Jeremy Barham & Stephen Downes (eds), Pursuing the Musical Avant Garde, under review at Ashgate

• Studies in Recorded Jazz (series editor; Oxford University Press, 2011-)

• Music, Time and the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011)

• ‘Mahler’s verkehrte Welt: Fechner, “Learned Satire” and the Third Movement of Symphony 3’, in Eric Partsch & Morten Solvik (eds), Mahler im Kontext/Contextualizing Mahler (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, forthcoming 2011), pp. 169-98.

• ‘Dismembering the Musical Voice: Mahler, Melodrama and Dracula from Stage to Screen’, in Sarah Hibberd (ed.), Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Aldershot; Ashgate, forthcoming 2011)

• ‘Mahler, Heimat and Randkultur: Musical Politics of Centre and Periphery’, in Mathieu Schneider & Beat Foellmi (eds), Music and the Construction of National Identities in the 19th Century (Baden Baden & Bouxwiller: Editions Valentin Koerner, 2010), pp. 267-82

• ‘Incorporating Monsters: Music as Context, Character and Construction in Kubrick’s The Shining’, in Philip Hayward (ed.), Terror Tracks. Music and Sound in Horror Cinema (London: Equinox Press, 2009), pp. 137-70

• ‘Plundering Cultural Archives and Transcending Diegetics: Mahler’s Music as “Overscore”’, Music and the Moving Image (Illinois), 3/1 (2009)

• ‘Roots, Rhizomes and Plateaus: Rethinking Jazz Historiography and the Jazz-ClassicalRelationship’, Jazz Research Journal 3/2 (2009): 171-202

• ‘“Made in Germany”: Mahler, Musicological Imperialism and the Decentred Self’, invited book chapter in Federico Celestini, Gregor Kokorz and Julian Johnson (eds), Musik in der Moderne/Music and Modernism, (Böhlau, Köln, Weimar und Wien: Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, 7, 2009)

• ‘Scoring Incredible Futures: Science Fiction Film Music, and “Post-Modernism” as Romantic Epiphany’, The Musical Quarterly, 91 (2008): 240-274

• ‘Mahler, Music and the Moving Image: Beyond Death in Venice’, Nachrichten zur Mahler-Forschung, Vienna, 57 (Spring 2008), pp. 26–46

• The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (Cambridge University Press, 2007); editor, and contributor of chapter ‘Juvenilia and Early Works: From the First Song Fragments to Das klagende Lied’, pp.51–71

• Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Time and Work; translation, with critical essay and commentary, of Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, ‘Gustav Mahler: neue Erkentnisse zu seinem Leben, seiner Zeit, seinem Werk’ (unpubl., 1945). ‘Guildhall Research Studies’ (London & Aldershot: Guildhall School of Music and Drama & Ashgate, 2007)

• Perspectives on Gustav Mahler (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005); editor and contributor of chapter ‘Mahler the Thinker: the Books of the Alma Mahler-Werfel Collection’, pp. 37–151

• ‘Mahler’s First Compositions: Piano Quartet and Songs’, invited book chapter in Donald Mitchell & Andrew Nicholson (eds.) The Mahler Companion, 2nd rev. edn (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 597–607

• Various reviews of books and music for Nineteenth-Century Music Review and Music & Letters (from 1999)

Teaching

• HE2 Jazz Studies 1
• HE2 Research Project
• HE2 Historical Performance Practice
• HE3 Jazz Studies 2
• HE3 Mahler Studies
• MMus Screen Music Studies
• MMus Critical Musicology
• MMus Research Seminar

Departmental Duties

BMus Admissions Tutor

Departmental marketing representative

Affiliations

• Member of International Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft
• Member of BFI
• Member of Institut für Jazzforschung, Graz

Conference papers, lectures and talks

• 'Mahler on Screen: Truth, Translation, Travesty?', After Mahler’s Death: International Gustav Mahler Symposium
  Vienna (Konzerthaus) (May 2011)

• 'Musical Temporality and the Moving Image: Culture, Kinesis and Chronology', International Conference Time’s Excesses & Eccentricities: Music, Literature and Art, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie (May 2011)

• 'The Universe Bursts Into Song: Mahler and his Eighth Symphony', pre-concert talk, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall (May, 2011)

• '“A Time of Gifts”: Mahler’s Eighth, Fassbinder’s Cinema, and Musical Politics’, conference A Work of Art of Higher Artistic Order. Text and Context of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Ottawa (June 2010)

• ‘Mahler and Socio-Cultural Nomadism: the Case of the Fifth Symphony’ ', conference Ferne Heimatklänge. Gustav Mahler und die Moderne, Cologne (May 2010)

• Mahler Study Day, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (April 2010)

• 'Roots, Rhizomes and Plateaus; Rethinking Jazz Historiography' conference New Jazz Histories, Salford (November 2009)

• Invited talk for Barbican/LSO study day on Mahler, Wunderhorn songs (November 2009)

• Invited contributor to BBC Radio 3 Proms discussion panel: Mahler, Symphony 9 (July 2009)

• ‘Chronicling Motion: Music as Temporalizing Agency in Experimental and Mainstream Screen Media’, conference Music and the Moving Image, New York University Steinhardt, May 2009

• ‘Ricoeurian Narrative Structures, 19th-Century Cognitive Models, and the “Anxiety of Decadence” in the First Movement of Mahler’s Third Symphony’, Music Theory and Analysis - Seventh Annual Conference, University of Arts, Belgrade, May 2009

• ‘Roots, Rhizomes and Plateaus: Rethinking Jazz Historiography and the Jazz-Classical Relationship’, Leeds International Jazz Conference, March 2009

• Invited pre-concert talk ‘Mahler’s arrangement of Beethoven Symphony No. 9’, Royal Festival Hall (London Philharmonic Orchestra concert series), February 2009

• ‘Recurring Dreams: the Cinematic Appropriation of Schumann’s Op. 15 no. 7’, research seminar, University of Surrey, December 2008

• ‘Differing Roots, Unpopular Histories: Radicalism as Meeting of Minds in Jazz-Classical Aesthetics’, New Jazz Histories Symposium, University of Salford, November 2008

• ‘Mahler’s Apocalypse: Symphony 2 and Virtual Melodrama’, conference Music and the Melodramatic Aesthetic, Nottingham University, September 2008

• ‘Plundering Cultural Archives: Mahler’s Music as “Overscore”, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University, July 2008

• ‘Mahler, Dynamics and the 19^th-Century Psychological Turn’, Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College Dublin, June 2008

• ‘Plundering Cultural Archives: Mahler’s Music as “Overscore”, conference Music and the Moving Image, New York University Steinhardt, May-June 2008

• ‘Mahler, Heimat and Randkultur: Musical Politics of Centre and Periphery’, conference Music and the Construction of National Identities, Strasbourg, October 2007

• ‘Postmodernism as Romantic Epiphany: the Bachian Intertext in Film Scoring’, International Conference: Sound, Music & the Moving Image, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, September 2007

• ‘Firing Canons and Targeting the Logos in Musicology: Some Critical Perspectives’, research seminar, University of Surrey, June 2007

• ‘Mahler’s Screen Persona: Music, Mythologies and the Moving Image’, conference Gustav Mahler. Interpretation and Reception, Saarbrücken, June 2007

• ‘Temporal Relations in Music and Screen Media’, Royal Musical Association 42^nd Annual Conference ‘Music and Visual Cultures’, Nottingham, July 2006 

• ‘Gustav Mahler: the Lost Rosenzweig Manuscript’, invited research seminar paper, University of Sheffield, March 2006

• ‘Technology, the Metropolis and Science-Fiction Film Music’, invited research seminar, East Anglia University, December 2005

• Invited pre-concert lecture, ‘Mahler’s Sixth Symphony’, Gustav Mahler Society UK, Basingstoke, September 2005

• ‘“Made in Germany”: Mahler, Musicological Imperialism and the Decentred Self’, conference Music in der Moderne, Graz, July 2004

• ‘Mahler and the Melodramatic Imagination’, 13^th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Durham, July 2004

• ‘“Made in Germany”: Musicological Imperialism and a Recently Discovered Mahler Study by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig’, Third International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, University of Nottingham, June 2003

• ‘Incorporating Monsters: Music of Utopia and Dystopia in Science Fiction and Horror Film Genres’, research seminar, University of Surrey, February 2003

• ‘Music of the Future: the Appropriation of 19^th-Century Repertoire in Paramount’s “Star Trek: Voyager”’, Royal Musical Association 38^th annual Conference, Glasgow, November-December 2002

• ‘Mahler’s Third Symphony’ invited pre-concert lectures, Ely Cathedral and Fairfield Hall Croydon, November 2002

• ‘The Cinematic in Gustav Mahler’, International Musicological Society, 17^th International Congress, Leuven, August 2002

Research Awards and Grants

• Grants from the British Academy, the Royal Musical Association, The Music & Letters Trust, the Institute of Musical Research, and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, in support of the Gustav Mahler Centenary Conference, July 2011

• Winner of 2009 Donald Tovey Memorial Prize, awarded by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford

• SCEPTrE Fellowship awarded 2009-10, for collaborative music and film project with Lois Davis (Film Studies): ‘Bringing the Profession into Academia, Taking Academia into the Profession: a Collaborative Film Project Documenting the Cultural Activity, Research and Learning Environment of Surrey University’

• Grant from University Research Support Fund for presentation of papers at conferences in New York and Belgrade (2009)

• Grant from University Research Support Fund for presentation of papers at conferences in New York, Dublin and Glasgow (2008)

• Commission award from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for research and production of Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Time and Work (2005)

• Music & Letters Trust grant to support translation of texts for The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (2005)

• Five awards from the School of Arts, Communication and Humanities, Research Incentive Fund to support research and publication work: Jan. 2004, Jan. 2005, May 2005, Jan. 2006,  Jan. 2007

• British Academy overseas research grants
  1. Archival, bibliographic and manuscript research at Staatsbibliothek, Berlin (1994)
  2. Archival, bibliographic and manuscript research at Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft and University Archive, Vienna (1994)
  3. Archival and bibliographic research at Bibliothèque Musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris (1995)
  
• The Department of Music, University of Surrey, for bibliographic research undertaken in The Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1996)