Ruth Herbert

Biography

Ruth Herbert is a music lecturer at City St. Georges, University of London, and also Senior Lecturer in Music, Director of Research (Music) and Head of Performance at the University of Kent. She is a music psychologist and performer with a wide-ranging international track record of publications in the fields of music in everyday life, music, health and wellbeing, music and consciousness (including ASC and Trance), sonic studies, evolutionary psychology and music education. Ruth is the author of Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing (London & New York: Routledge, 2016[2011]) and co-editor of Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities (Oxford: OUP, 2019). As a professional pianist, Ruth has performed nationally and internationally with various ensembles, notably recording soundtracks commissioned by the British Film Institute(BFI) for silent films. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Sonic Studies and Musicae Scientiae.