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Region
  
Critical Musicology

Name
  
Giles Hooper


Role
  
Author

Era
  
Contemporary philosophy

Alma mater
  
University of Liverpool

Notable work
  
The Discourse of Musicology

School
  
Critical Theory, New Musicology

Books
  
The discourse of musicology

Education
  
Keele University, University of Liverpool

Influenced by
  
Jurgen Habermas, Theodor W. Adorno

Main interests
  
Philosophy of music, Philosophy of mind

Similar People
  
Theodor W Adorno, Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Jean‑Michel Berthelot, Max Horkheimer

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Giles Hooper is an author and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He is known for contributions to contemporary musicology and applications of postmodernist theory in musicology.

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Hooper completed his PhD, The study of music and the status of musical knowledge, at the University of Keele in 2003. After teaching at Keele, Exeter, and Bristol, he was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Music in 2005. Hooper's work is currently in wide-ranging research interests including twentieth-century music, critical theory and analysis. In 2010, Hooper was appointed Head of the School of Music. His best known publication is "The Discourse of Musicology" published in 2006.

Publications

  • The Discourse of Musicology (Ashgate Publishing, June 2006) ISBN 0-7546-5211-4
  • Nevermind Nirvana: A post-Adornian perspective. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 38 (1).
  • An incomplete project: Modernism, formalism and the 'music itself'
  • References

    Giles Hooper Wikipedia