Samuel Cheney
Thesis title: "Sounds Exotic": British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939
History
Year of study: 2
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: s.a.cheney@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
BA History, University of Oxford (2015 - 2018)
MPhil History, University of Oxford (2018 - 2020)
PhD History, University of Edinburgh (2020 - 2024)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Co-Convener, Edinburgh Centre for Global History Graduate Workshop
Undergraduate teaching
I have previously tutored on the following undergraduate courses in history:
- Introduction to Historiography
- Early Modern History: A Connected World
Research summary
"Sounds Exotic": British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939
My PhD research analyses Sino-British cultural interactions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through music and sound. It considers what British people though China sounded like in this period, and how British musicians and composers communicated their perceptions of Chinese civilisation through various musical forms.
Current research interests
Sino-British Relations; Sensory History (esp. 'the sound of race'); Global Music History; Musical OrientalismCurrent project grants
Scottish Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Award (2020 - 2024)