Dr Sarah Collins lectures in musicology at the University of Western Australia (UWA): more information about her is available on the UWA website at https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/sarah-collins.
Books
Collins, Sarah (2019). Lateness and modernism: untimely ideas about music, literature and politics in interwar Britain. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Collins, Sarah (2013). The aesthetic life of Cyril Scott. Martlesham, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell & Brewer.
Book Chapters
Collins, Sarah (2020). Rancière, resistance and the problem of commemorative art: music displacing violence displacing music. Rancière and music. (pp. 265-289) edited by Cachopo, Joao Pedro, Nickleson, Patrick and Stover, Chris. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Collins, Sarah (2019). Aesthetic liberalism. Music and Victorian liberalism: composing the liberal subject. (pp. 1-12) edited by Sarah Collins. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108628778.001
Collins, Sarah (2018). What was contemporary music?. The Routledge research companion to modernism in music. (pp. 56-85) edited by Björn Heile and Charles Wilson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315613291-3
Collins, Sarah (2018). Anti-intellectualism and the rhetoric of ‘national character’ in music: the vulgarity of over-refinement. British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850–1950. (pp. 199-234) edited by Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton. Martlesham, United Kingdom: Boydell and Brewer. doi: 10.1017/9781787442801.010
Collins, Sarah and Perry, Simon (2015). 'The Beauty of Bravery': alternative modernisms, de-historicizing Grainger. Grainger the Modernist. (pp. 17-32) edited by Suzanne Robinson and Kay Dreyfus. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315585772-7
Journal Articles
Collins, Sarah (2023). Stone as Witness mute speech, don juan, and the ear of the future. Angelaki, 28 (4), 29-44. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233797
Collins, Sarah (2022). The operatic roots of performativity: bodies decontextualised in Butler, Brecht and Busoni. Cambridge Opera Journal, 34 (3), 309-337. doi: 10.1017/s095458672200026x
Collins, Sarah (2019). Utility and the pleasures of musical formalism: Edmund Gurney, liberal individualism, and musical beauty as 'ultimate' value. Music and Letters, 100 (2), 335-354. doi: 10.1093/ml/gcy122
Collins, Sarah (2017). The Political Aesthetics of Detachment: Modernism, Autonomy and the Idea of the Transnational. Australian Humanities Review (62), 79-97.
Collins, Sarah (2017). Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music. Music & Letters, 98 (3), 489-492. doi: 10.1093/ml/gcx069
Collins, Sarah (2017). Nationalisms, modernisms and masculinities: strategies of displacement in Vaughan Williams's reading of Walt Whitman. Nineteenth Century Music Review, 14 (1), 65-91. doi: 10.1017/s147940981600029x
Collins, Sarah (2016). What Is Cosmopolitan?: Busoni and Other Germans. The Musical Quarterly, 99 (2), 201-229. doi: 10.1093/musqtl/gdx005
Collins, Sarah and Gooley, Dana (2016). Music and the new cosmopolitanism: problems and possibilities. The Musical Quarterly, 99 (2), 139-165. doi: 10.1093/musqtl/gdx006
Collins, Sarah (2015). The composer as good European: musical modernism, Amor fati and the cosmopolitanism of Frederick Delius. Twentieth-Century Music, 12 (1), 97-123. doi: 10.1017/S1478572214000164
Collins, Sarah (2014). Absolute music and ideal content: autonomy, sensation and experience in Arthur Symons’ theory of musical aesthetics. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 19 (1), 45-66.
Collins, Sarah (2014). Never Out of Date and Never Modern: aesthetic democracy, radical music criticism and The Sackbu. Music and Letters, 95 (3), 404-428. doi: 10.1093/ml/gcu067
Collins, Sarah (2013). Practices of Aesthetic Self-Cultivation: British composer-critics of the doomed generation. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 138 (1), 85-128. doi: 10.1080/02690403.2013.771975
Collins, Sarah (2011). The interpreter's renaissance and the uncertain rhetoric of 'Practice as Research'. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, V (2), 127-130.