Dr Daniel Elphick is a Lecturer in Musicology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on history and analysis of Russian, Polish, and East-Central European music since the 19th century, as well as music and politics more broadly. Dan’s first book, Music Behind the Iron Curtain was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Dan is a Convenor of the Slavonic and East European Music (SEEM) Study Group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). Dan is also a Fellow of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Editorial Board for DSCH, the Shostakovich Journal. Dan is also the Communications Officer for the Royal Musical Association (RMA), the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of all types of music.
Email: daniel.elphick@rhul.ac.uk
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Dan is the Glorious Leader of the Cult of Musicology, a public musicology project dedicated to promoting music education, academic study of music, and new research in musicology. You can find it on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBBloUqdT8LHBcFmLfGpdA
Dan keeps a semi-active blog on his Weinberg research: http://linesthathaveescapeddestruction.blogspot.com/
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