Acknowledgements
I’ve been thinking about this topic for seven years (2013–20), and so a great many people and much listening and reading has influenced it. I wish I’d kept a list from the start, but it was some years before I appreciated that this was all forming into a book (if that’s what this is). So this list of those to whom I know I’m especially grateful can’t be complete. But everyone on it has helped and influenced me, often in ways of which they’re unaware (some may wish they hadn’t). My sincere thanks to them all.
Ananay Aguilar
Tom Armstrong
Sara Ascenso
Irene Auerbach
Amy Blier-Carruthers
Joe Bolger
Katherine Bond
Monia Brizzi
Julie Brown
Anna Bull
Alison Bullock
Mandy Burvill
Anna Maria Busse Berger
Esther Cavett
Holly Champion
Eric Clarke
Nicholas Cook
Louise Cournarie
Zoran Cvetkovic
Mine Doğantan-Dack
Abigail Dolan
David Dolan
Chris Dromey
Stephen Emmerson
Marco Fatichenti
Lukas Fierz
Kerstin Frödin
Tamara Lorenzo Gabeiras
Helena Gaunt
Leo Geyer
Diana Gilchrist
Malcolm Gillies
Karen Glen
Andrew Hallifax
Matthew Head
Helen Hogh
Kristine Healy
Juniper Hill
Katherine Howells
Mary Hunter
Mirjam James
Shelley Katz
Maiko Kawabata
Martin Lawrence
Roses Leech-Wilkinson
Katherine Liley
Ji Liu
Natasha Loges
Ella Marchment
Raluca Matei
Raffaello Moretti
Nick Morgan
Lina Navickaité-Martinelli
Marten Noorduin
Tanja Orning
Pelagia Pais
Mathilde Pavis
Emily Payne
Vanessa Pope
Helen Prior
Rosalind Rei
John Rink
Christina Scharff
Katherine Schofield
Francisca Skoogh
Anna Scott
László Stachó
Martin Stokes
Richard Taruskin
Chris Terepin
Georgia Volioti
Fatima Volkoviskii
Laura Wahlfors
Sara Wilén
Frances Wilson
Karen Wise
And I thank the many people who have invited me to speak at their festivals, conferences and institutions over the years, together with those I’ve met there who’ve been happy to discuss these themes.