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Author Biography

• James Wierzbicki, University of Sydney

  James Wierzbicki is a Senior Lecturer in musicology at the University of Sydney. He deals with film music, electronic music, and questions of modernism and the postmodern. Recently, he is the author of Film Music: A History (New York and London: Routledge, 2009) and Elliott Carter (University of Illinois Press, 2011). With Nathan Platte and Colin Roust, he co-edited the Routledge Film Music Sourcebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2011).