Dr Danijela Spiric Beard

(she/her)

BA, MPhil, PhD

Research

I co-edited the monograph  Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge) and a special issue on music and socialism for the journal twentieth-century music (Cambridge University Press). I have published on Yugoslav film music, popular music and politics, and the composer Josip Slavenski.

Teaching

I have over ten years experience of teaching UG, PG and CPE courses on music and languages. My recent courses at Cardiff have included:

The Golden Age of the Ballets Russes

The Story of Opera

Romeo and Juliet: the Opera, the Musical and the Ballet

From Revolutions to the Avant-Garde: Opera in Russia and Eastern Europe

Music and Art in fin-de-siècle Europe

Biography

I read Music and Russian at Durham University (BA and MPhil), and obtained a PhD from Cardiff University with a thesis on Yugoslav Identity in Music and the Case of Josip Štolcer Slavenski.

My specialisms include music and politics in the Western Balkans, opera, and popular and film music.

I act as the international reviews editor for the journal Muzikološki Zbornik/Musicological Annual, and co-convenor of BASEES-REEMS (the Study Group for Russian and East European Music within the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies).

I was a Lecturer in Music at Nottingham University (2013−15), and an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research (Royal Holloway, University of London (2016−17)).