Howard Irving is Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Chairman of the Department of Music.  His recent publications include articles in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, The International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and a chapter in Ian Biddle and Kristen Gibson, eds., Masculinity and Western Musical Practice (Ashgate, 2009).  He is the author of Ancients and Moderns:  William Crotch and the Development of Classical Music (Ashgate, 1999). His research interests center around topics in British cultural history and aesthetics in the “long” eighteenth century.