Dr Florian Scheding

Florian's research focuses on music and migration, especially the displacement of European musics and musicians during the 20^th century. He has published on migratory musics in all its forms, ranging across functional, popular, and art musics.

His first book, Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond, co-edited with Erik Levi, was named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. It explores the significance of displacement for musical landscapes and music history.

His second book, Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in 20th-century Music received the inaugural Royal Musical Association/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize 2020. Zooming in on specific migratory moments, it tackles themes such as institutionalization, nationalism, displacement, modernism, and Jewishness, and uncovers the potential of migratory musics to inform dominant historiographical narratives.

Florian is currently working on a project funded by a British Academy Fellowship. Entitled Staging Migrant Voices: Cabaret and Transnational Networks in 20th-Century Britain it researches refugee cabaret in Britain during WWII.