Carolyn Landau

Carolyn Landau is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include the music of North Africa, Islam, Christianity, multiculturalism and politics in Britain, community music, applied ethnomusicology, sound archiving and the history of ethnomusicology in Britain. Her doctoral thesis explored the role of music for different generations of Moroccans in Britain and the potential use by this community of archival sound recordings held by the British Library. She is currently writing up a research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, that examines the role and impact of music within diverse Muslim communities in London. 

North Africa; Islam; migration; community music; applied ethnomusicology; sound archiving; multiculturalism. 

Carolyn Landau joined the Department of Music at King's College London as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in October 2010. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from City University London (2010), an MMus in Ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London (2005) and a BA in Music and French from the University of Birmingham (2001). From 2002-06 she was employed as an Ethnomusicology Documentalist and Content Specialist in the World and Traditional Music section of the British Library and prior to this conducted research into traditional musics in West Cameroon. She has taught modules in ethnomusicology and world musics at KCL, City and Surrey universities.