#  Alexander J Fisher 

Professor of Music in the School of Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada

 

 

 



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Alex Fisher is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in music, sound, and religious culture in early modern Germany, he is the author of *Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580-1630* (Ashgate, 2004), and *Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria* (Oxford, 2014). His work appears in various journals, including the *Journal of Musicology*, *Journal of the Royal Musical Association*, *Early Music History*, the *Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music*, and *Sixteenth Century Journal* (forthcoming). His current research on soundscapes and confessional space in the Holy Roman Empire in the post-Reformation era is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.