Subject
Music
Research Interests
Joshua Walden, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University, specializes in music of the twentieth century. His doctoral dissertation explores musical realism and its intersections with nationalism and the history of sound recording, in the works of early twentieth-century composers and performers from Hungary and the Jewish Diaspora. Joshua has published articles about C.P.E. Bach’s musical portraiture, and the television musicals of Dennis Potter; his article on the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg is forthcoming. Joshua has performed as a violinist in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, and other venues in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been concertmaster and concerto soloist with the symphony orchestra of UC Berkeley.
Teaching Interests
Joshua has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the University of California at Davis. His courses include surveys in the history of Western music, as well as lecture and seminar classes in Mozart and film music.
