Jacob Burtenshaw

Biography

Jacob’s scholarly interests lie within intersections of music and philosophy in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his dissertation research concerns Kierkegaardian ideology in the writings of Adorno. Prior topics include a Kierkegaardian communicative reading of the Fluxus movement; dialectical analysis of post-1950 text scores; and a commentary on the historiography of Henry Cowell and his creative network. Recently he co-authored an essay (with Sherry Lee) on (mis)representations of nature and culture in Mahler’s symphonies, which is forthcoming in the volume Nature in Musical Modernism Since Mahler from Innsbruck University Press. He received his BMus and MLitt degrees from Newcastle University, UK.