Dr Phil Alexander
Job title:
Teaching Fellow, Performance
Office:
2.15, Alison House
Research Output:
Edinburgh Research Explorer linkBiography
I am a musician, composer and academic. My musical life takes in jazz, Latin klezmer, and various traditional musics of Europe. My research focuses on Jewish klezmer and Yiddish music in Europe (monograph published with OUP, 2021), and more recently Jewish musical life in Scotland in the early 20th century (book in preparation). Here at the Reid I teach Performance 1 and Performance 3, and also Understanding Music History 2. I also run a Latin band and a klezmer band - please get in touch if you'd like to know more!
Research interests
- Jewish music, in particular klezmer and Yiddish music
- Music and place, music and the city
- Traditional music
- Performance
- Composition
- Performance 1
- Performance 3
- Understanding Music History 2 (19th/20th centuries)
Research
Research
I am a musician, composer and academic. My musical life takes in jazz, latin, klezmer, and various traditional musics of Europe. My research focuses on Jewish klezmer and Yiddish music in Berlin (monograph published with OUP, 2021), and more recently Jewish musical life in Scotland in the early 20th century (book in preparation).
PhD Supervision Topics
- Jewish music and other expressions of traditional music
- The relationship of traditional music to contemporary place and space
