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George Revill is senior lecturer in cultural geography at The Open University.

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Scoring the Shoreline BBC

By Dr George Revill (The Open University)

13 July 2005

George Revill considers the synergy between sound waves and ocean waves - how the coast of Britain has inspired the nation's musical heritage.   Read more : Scoring the Shoreline

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Revill, George (2012). Landscape and music. In: Howard, peter; Thompson, Ian and Waterson, Emma eds. Companion to Landscape Studies. Routledge.

Revill, George (2012). Railway. Objekt Series. London: Reaktion.

Revill, George (2011). Perception, reception and representation: Wolfgang Schivelbusch and the cultural history of travel and transport. In: Norton, Peter; Mom, Gijs; Milward, Liz and Flonneau, Mathieu eds. Mobility in History: reviews and reflections. Yearbook of Transport, Travel and Mobility (T2M), 3. Neuchatel, Suisse: Editions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, pp. 31–48.

Revill, George (2011). Mobility Part II. In: Agnew, John A. and Duncan, James S. eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 373–386.

Divall, Colin and Revill, George (2009). Les cultures du transport : représentation, pratique et technologie. In: Flonneau, Mathieu and Guigueno, Vincent eds. De l’Histoire des Transports à l’Histoire de la Mobilité ? Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 57–74.

Merriman, Peter; Revill, George; Cresswell, Tim; Lorimer, Hayden; Matless, David; Rose, Gillian and Wylie, John (2008). Landscape, mobility, practice. Social & Cultural Geography, 9(2), pp. 191–212.

Revill, George (2007). William Jessop and the River Trent: mobility, engineering and the landscape of eighteenth-century 'improvement'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(2), pp. 201–216.

Revill, George (2006). Gathering the voices of the people? Cecil Sharp, cultural hybridity, and the folk music of Appalachia. GeoJournal, 65(1-2), pp. 55–66.

Revill, George (2005). Vernacular culture and the place of folk music [Cultura vernácula y el lugar de la música folklórica]. Social and Cultural Geography, 6(5), pp. 693–706.

Divall, Colin and Revill, George (2005). Cultures of transport: representation, practice and technology. Transport History, 26(1), pp. 99–111.

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George Revill is senior lecturer in cultural geography at The Open University. His work connects debates concerning landscape and national identity to the development of the British musical renaissance (1880 – 1940). He is chair of the Landscape Research Group, a registered charity dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary research into landscape. Amongst other publications he is co-author of Representing the Environment (Routledge 2004), and co-editor of Landscapes of Defence (Prentice Hall 2002) and The Place of Music (Guilford/Longman 1998).

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