Publications
E-mail: julie.brown@rhul.ac.uk

Julie Brown's research interests are several: early twentieth-century music (particularly Schoenberg and Bartók), music and the racial imagination, music analysis/criticism, and music and the moving image. She has published on Schoenberg, Webern and Bartók as well as television soundtracks and uses of music in film. Among her publications are Bartók and the Grotesque (Ashgate, 2007) and the edited collection Western Music and Race (Cambridge, 2007), which was awarded the Ruth A. Solie Award by the American Musicological Society. She also serves on the advisory boards of the scholarly journals Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and Music Analysis.

As Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Research Network 'The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain' she will be organising four separate events over the coming two years, including a conference to be held in conjunction with the Barbican Cinema in London in June 2009. Her own research on early film music practices touches on a range of topics. The cinema organ and its cultures are particular interests. However, she is currently working on a book on the sound cultures of film exhibition in 1920s Britain up to and including the transition to sound film, ranging from music's role in the cultural elevation of film to the emergence of film music criticism.

She teaches a range of courses at Royal Holloway and welcomes applications from potential PhD students on film music topics.