Phil Dodds

Phil Dodds is an interdisciplinary researcher based in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and was a post-doctoral research fellow on the project Sonic Sense of Place in the Division of Musicology at Lund University. He is currently working on the Swedish Research Council-funded project Musical Colonization: Scots and Swedes in Southern Africa, 1770–1850 and his next book, due out with Palgrave in 2023, is entitled Music and the Cultural Production of Scale.

By Phil Dodds

  • article
    08.12.2023

    Thinking decolonially towards music’s institution: A post-conference reflection

    Codex Quetzalecatzin. © Courtesy of Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
    How do we talk about musical colonisation? How do we talk about this work of talking about it; that is, interrogating what we mean by colonisation and its counter-logic of decolonisation or decoloniality?
    By Anjeline de Dios, Phil Dodds , Sanne Krogh Groth, Xenia Benivolski, Hild Borchgrevink, Nils Bubandt, Yurii Chekan , Maria Rijo Lopes Da Cunha , Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell , Caryl Mann, Ania Mauruschat, Ucee-Uchenna L. Nwachukwu, Ellen Marie Bråthen Steen & Yiren Zhao