Registration is now open for this Conference. Please go to www.canterbury.ac.uk/mncb2019 to book your place.

The biennial international conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain was founded at the University of Hull in 1997 and will celebrate its 12th meeting in 2019 at Canterbury Christ Church University.

For many years the MNCB conference has been a crucial gathering point for scholars from a wide range of disciplines including musicology, cultural, social, and economic history, politics, sociology, and cultural geography. Enriched by interdisciplinary dialogue and engaged with leading historians and cultural theorists, this body of work has made a major contribution to recent developments in musical scholarship. 

We are looking forward to welcoming scholars from all over the UK, Europe, Australasia, and the USA to this World Heritage Site for the three days of the Conference, with topics covering a remarkable range of academic enquiry. We are particularly proud to be welcoming our two Keynote Speakers, Dr David Wright (formerly Reader in the Social History of Music at London’s Royal College of Music, and author of a soon-to-be-published history of that institution) and Dr Paul Rodmell, of the University of Birmingham.

One slice of the city’s musical history will be a special feature of this particular MNCB Conference dinner: for almost a century (1779–1865) the city boasted a Catch Club. This quintessentially British institution offered its members a weekly concert of songs, catches, glees and instrumental music – accompanied by plentiful food and drink – throughout a winter season lasting thirty weeks from September to March. With the help of Cantuar, a group of Cathedral Lay Clerks who have made this convivial song repertoire their special study for the last few years, delegates will be able to savour something of this lost delight, in the evocative setting of the Café du Soleil’s timbered first-floor room built into the city wall. With the date in mind, this evening’s programme will not miss the opportunity to remind everyone present that the American national anthem started life as a drinking song (adopted by the Anacreontic Society as their club ditty) by the English composer John Stafford Smith.

Visit www.canterbury.ac.uk/mncb2019 to register.

Conference Committee:
Professor Rachel Cowgill
Rachel Johnson
Dr George Kennaway
Dr Christopher Price (Chair)
Dr Paul Rodmell

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