Giles Hooper

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Giles Hooper
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Notable workThe Discourse of Musicology
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionCritical Musicology
SchoolCritical Theory, New Musicology
Main interests
Critical Musicology · Aesthetics
Philosophy of Music
Philosophy of mind
 · Postmodernism

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.[who?]

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.[1] His best known publication is "The Discourse of Musicology" published in 2006.[2]

Publications[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Dr Giles Hooper - THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC - University of Liverpool". Liv.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 23 January 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  2. ^ Giles Hooper (2006). The Discourse of Musicology. Aldershot: Ashgate.