Eric Saylor, associate professor of music, recently edited and contributed to The Sea in the British Musical Imagination, a collection of essays published by The Boydell Press. The essays are organized around three main themes: the Sea as Landscape, the Sea as Profession, and the Sea as Metaphor, covering an array of topics drawn from the 17th century to the 21st. Featuring studies of pieces by the likes of Purcell, Arne, Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, and Davies, as well as examinations of cultural touchstones such as the BBC, the Scottish fishing industry, and the Aldeburgh Festival, The Sea in the British Musical Imagination will be of interest to musicologists as well as scholars in history, British studies, cultural studies, and English literature.

Eric is a specialist in music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing particularly on the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

—Submitted by Eric Saylor