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Dr Eric Doughney

Lecturer in Music

Background

Dr Eric Doughney is a musicologist and cultural theorist. A graduate in Theatre Design from the Central School of Art and Design (now Central St. Martins), London, he received his MLitt and PhD in Music from Newcastle University. Eric has designed for theatre (drama, contemporary dance, ballet, and opera) and, as both a staff member of the BBC Design Group and as a freelancer, for film and television, specialising in music and arts productions. Winner of The Arts Council of Great Britain Theatre Design Bursary, The Royal Society of Arts Design Award, and holder of nominations for The Royal Television Society Design Awards, Eric is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Research interests include the musical and prose works of Richard Wagner; Wagnerism; The Bayreuth Festival as Index of Germany's Now; nationalism in music; music broadcasting, and the interrelation of politics, policies, and socio-cultural trends in the broadcasting of Western Art Music within the UK.


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