Daniel Mollenkamp

DPhil in Music

Daniel Mollenkamp

College Affiliation Magdalen College

Supervisor Professor Sarah Hill

Area of proposed thesis

My thesis, preliminarily titled ‘Can Spotify Save Breton?’, will explore digitisation’s impact on music’s role in preserving minority and endangered languages, primarily Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Supervised by Professors Sarah Hill and David Willis.

Research interests

Minority-language music; digitisation’s impact on music reception; linguistic preservation through song; music and aesthetic identity; popular music, film music, video game music; the politics of composition and performance; post-romantic piano

Funding

Clarendon Fund

Magdalen College Graduate Scholarship in Music

Degrees

BA (University of Denver)

MSc (London School of Economics)

MA (Cardiff University)