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Adam Harper

Adam Harper is a lecturer in music based in London, UK, and the author of Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making (2011).

Opinion
Why We Need to Stop Dreaming of England

Green unpleasant land? As the UK braces for election week, it might be time to abandon the myth of Englishness

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
‘Untitled Goose Game’ and Why It Feels Good to Be Bad

‘It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.’ Aren’t so many of us feeling like that these days?

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
How Midsommar’s Music Taps into the Pagan Bliss of Folk Horror

From The Wicker Man to Ari Aster’s latest film, joyful sounds can reveal the darkest worlds

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
Retracing Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s Eerie Pilgrimage

In 2006, the theorist of ‘hauntology’ and sound-artist walked across the Suffolk coastline – Adam Harper follows in their footsteps, sifting through encrusted layers of history

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
A Battered, Deep-Fried Trumpet: Is This What Brexit Sounds Like?

Experimental producer Matthew Herbert’s enigmatic album trawls a nation’s fault-lines and finds its messy symbolism

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
The Disappearance of the High Street Record Store Risks Losing a Powerful Arena for Music’s Collectivity

The demise of HMV can be mourned as the decline of owning tangible media – but something greater is at stake

BY Adam Harper |
Features
What Opera Might Be

Ahead of its South London Gallery performance, how Tom Phillips’s Irma – a work that questions the genre of opera itself – is being staged

BY Adam Harper |
Opinion
New Rites

From Stravinsky in a car park to concerts in living rooms, how is classical music culture changing? 

BY Adam Harper |