Ian Biddle

• Senior Lecturer in Music and Cultural Theory School of Arts and Cultures
• Email: ian.biddle@ncl.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8844
• Ian is one of the co-convenors of the Eastern European and Russia Research Group,

Ian Biddle is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music- and sound-related areas. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, theorising music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience, and the politics of noise. He has interests in memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory, psychoanalysis and theoretical approaches to 'affective' states. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor (with Richard Middleton) of the journal Radical Musicology.  Ian has a particular interest in music in the Holocaust, and music in Soviet society, as well as East European soundscapes.