Barley Norton
Reader
Music
Goldsmiths University of London
United Arab Emirates
Biography
Dr Barley Norton is an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with research interests in the music and culture of Southeast Asia. After studying music at City University and completing MMus and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he taught at Roehampton University before joining Goldsmiths in 2008. He is the director of Goldsmiths’ Asian Music Unit, the convenor of the MA in Music (Ethnomusicology), and the leader of the Goldsmiths Gamelan Group
Research Interest
Dr Barley Norton’s research interests include ethnomusicological filmmaking and theory, the cultural politics of musical practice, discourse on cultural heritage and music revival, music and religious experience, music and emotion, music and gender theory, music censorship, improvisation, performance and modal theory. His academic research is informed by practice. During field research in Vietnam he learnt to play two Vietnamese lutes: the dan day and dan nguyet. He also plays Sundanese music from Indonesia on the kacapi zither and the gamelan degung orchestra.
Publications
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Music Revival, Ca Trù Ontologies, and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam Norton, Barley. 2014. Music Revival, Ca Trù Ontologies, and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam. In: Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 158-179. ISBN 9780199765034
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Music and Protest in 1968. Kutschke, Beate and Norton, Barley, eds. 2013. Music and Protest in 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107007321
