J. P. E. Harper-Scott (born 3 December 1977[1]) is a British musicologist and formerly Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.
He was educated at Shotton Hall Comprehensive School, and received an undergraduate degree at Durham University.
[4] He subsequently received a D.Phil at the University of Oxford in 2004, for a thesis "Elgar's musical language : analysis, hermeneutics, humanity".
[6] In September 2021, Harper-Scott announced his resignation from Royal Holloway over dissatisfaction with the increasing politicisation of music in academia and attempts to 'decolonise' the curriculum.
'[9] One result of his work is that ideology critique, traditionally associated in musicology with the philosopher Adorno (1903–69), 'has a significant role to play in the future of the discipline'.