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Kolassa, Alexander (2024). Haunted by the Past: Music and Folk Horror in Children of the Stones. In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media. Music and Visual Culture. Routledge.

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Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. (2024). History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media. Music and Visual Culture. New York, USA and Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam (2024). Introduction: Beyond authenticity in music, history, and fantasy. In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander; Robinson, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media. Music and Visual Culture. New York, USA and Oxon, UK: Routledge.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2024). Beyond nostalgia: hearing anachronism in Westworld and television's new golden age. In: Halfyard, Janet K. and Reyland, Nicholas eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 347–363.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2022). ‘A crazy clutter of the mediaeval, medical mind’: Ken Russell, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Modernist Medievalism in The Devils. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147(1) pp. 135–170.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2022). The medievalist origins of (British) modernist music. In: Falconieri, Tommaso di Carpegna; Savy, Pierre and Yawn, Lila eds. Middle Ages without Borders: an international conversation on medievalism. Rome: École française de Rome.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2021). [Book Review] The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism. Ed. by Stephen C. Meyer and Kirsten Yri. Music and Letters, 102(1) pp. 143–145.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2021). Intertextuality and (modernist) medievalism in British post-war music. In: Kostka, Violetta; Castro, Paulo Ferreira de and Everett, William eds. Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition. London: Routledge, pp. 114–128.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2020). Hail the Nightmare: Music, Sound, and Materiality in Bloodborne. The Soundtrack, 11(1-2) pp. 23–38.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2018). The Past is a Different Planet: Sounding Medievalism in Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God. In: Fugelso, Karl ed. Studies in Medievalism XXVII: Authenticity, Medievalism, Music. Studies in Medievalism, XXVII. Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, pp. 227–250.

Kolassa, Alexander (2018). Introduction to Part III. In: Fugelso, Karl ed. Authenticity, Medievalism, Music. Studies in Medievalism (27). Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 181–182.

Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam (2018). [Introduction] Understanding the present through the past and the past through the present. In: Kolassa, Alexander; Cook, James and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1–14.

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Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam (2018). Music in fantasy pasts: neomedievalism and Game of Thrones. In: Kolassa, Alexander; Cook, James and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 229–250.

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Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. (2018). Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.

Kolassa, Alexander (2018). Presentness and the past in contemporary British opera. In: Cook, James; Kolassa, Alexander and Whittaker, Adam eds. Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 155–173.

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Kolassa, Alexander (2015). Composing for the Memory Dealer: New Paradigms for the Immersive Soundtrack. Journal of Sonic Studies, 9