Stage, Screen and Popular Entertainment
Our field-leading experts are investigating music’s role in film, theatre and the performing arts, and as popular entertainment, across time and place.
We’re publishing research and building collaborations on topics including:
- Musical theatre, stage music, opera
- Screen media and cultures
- Songwriting, singing and storytelling
- Histories and practices of jazz
- Performer and composer identities
- Cultural politics and reception histories
- Casting and industry practice
Explore our innovative research
Find out about more of our funded research projects.
Spotlight on: New edition of "A History of Film Music"
A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ academic’s definitive history of film scoring from the silent era to the present day has recently been published in Chinese. Classic FM described the original as no less than ‘“the” history of film music’.
Our research community
Research in this area emerges from a vibrant community of staff, research students and partnerships.
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Lakeside Arts
- Mixed Reality Lab
- ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Central Library
- ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Playhouse
- Opera North
- Peggy’s Skylight
- Streetwise Opera
- Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½
Join us
Our staff welcome initial enquiries about research supervision at both Master’s or PhD level, or about sponsorship for externally-funded postdoctoral positions.