Faculty of Music
University of Oxford
Vinzent Wesselmann
DPhil in Music
Area of proposed thesis
My research focuses upon the colonial history of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and the role which its music exams played in the development of music education infrastructures across the British Empire in the early twentieth century. I am particularly interested in the rise of colonial music exams which rivaled the ABRSM and the political contexts which contributed to their growth or failure.
Research interests
Imperial History; Music Education; Imagined Communities; Cultural Diplomacy
Funding
Gerda Henkel Foundation
Degrees
BA Sciences Po Paris - Political Science
BA Columbia University - History
MPhil University of Cambridge - Modern European History
MA Sciences Po Paris - Sociology