The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920: New Perspectives on Status and Identity

Rosemary Golding is a staff tutor and senior lecturer in Music at the Open University. She has published on the history of music as an academic subject in nineteenth-century Britain as well as institutional and professional identities in music. Current research interests also include the relationship between music and health in nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular focus on the uses of music in lunatic asylums.