Christina Bashford is a music historian who works in the sphere of cultural musicology, examining the functions and meanings of music, music-making, and its associated activities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her focus is on Britain and its relationships with other nations, and her research explores a range of themes, including the tensions between the sacralization of music and its commodification, changing intersections of class, gender, and national identity, and the role of music in situations and times of war. She is the author of The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London (Boydell Press, 2007). She has also co-edited three volumes of essays: Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich (with Leanne Langley; Oxford University Press, 2000); The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930 (with Roberta Montemorra Marvin; Boydell, 2016); and Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War 1 (with William Brooks and Gayle Magee; University of Illinois, 2019). Her recently published work includes an article in the centennial prize issue of Music & Letters, “Interpreting the Role of the Violin in the Ballykinlar Internment Camp during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921” (May 2019) and “Concert Listening the British Way?” in The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2019).