Publications

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Journal Articles

Huelin, Toby, ‘An Interview with Composer Paul Mottram’, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 18.2 (2024), 203–215 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, James Deaville, Júlia Durand, and Melissa Morton, ‘Library Music in Digital Media’, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 18.2 (2024), 95–113 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘Stick to the Status Quo? Music and the Production of Nostalgia on Disney+’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 27 (2024), 58–74 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘“Another Conspiracy About a Royalty-Free Song”: Library Music in Contemporary Political Discourse’, Media, Culture & Society, 46.8 (2024), 1541–1558 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘Soundtracking the City Break: Library Music in Travel Television’, Music and the Moving Image, 15.2 (2022), 3–24 *Winner of the BAFTSS Publication Award 2023 for Best Essay by a Doctoral Student* [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘“How the Music was Made”: Television, Musicology and BBC Four’, Critical Studies in Television, 17.2 (2022), 194–200 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘Sounds Like Money? Stock Music, Television, and Donald Trump’, European Journal of American Culture, 41.2 (2022), 147–65 [Access link]

Special Issue

James Deaville, Júlia Durand, Toby Huelin, and Melissa Morton, ‘Library Music in Digital Media’, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 18.2 (2024) [Access link]

Book Chapters

Huelin, Toby, ‘“Exquisitely Criminal Production Music”: Television, Ethics, and the Sound of True Crime’, in True Crime in American Media, ed. by George Larke-Walsh (Routledge, 2023), pp. 114–31 [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘Sounding Local? The Use of Music in Original Australian Streaming Productions’, in Streaming and Screen Culture in Asia-Pacific, ed. by Louisa Mitchell and Michael Samuel (Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 265–83 [Access link]

Public Media

Huelin, Toby, ‘BBC Radio Interview with Darcy Kelly’, BBC Radio Jersey (2024) [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘Elephant Out the Room: Toby Huelin’, Elephant Out the Room Podcast (2022) [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘Synchronized: Ep. 33 with Júlia Durand and Toby Huelin’, Synchronized: Podcast of the Production Music Industry (2022) [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘TV PhD: Composing for the Small Screen’, AHRC Arts and Minds Blog (2021) [Access link]

Huelin, Toby, ‘Reflections on my REP in the TV Industry’, WRoCAH Blog (2021) [Access link]

Invited Lectures/Interviews

Huelin, Toby, ‘Scoring Peak TV: Hans Zimmer, Bleeding Fingers, and the Evolution of Library Music’, Music and Music Technology research-seminar series, University of Huddersfield (2024) (supported by the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies as part of its New Connections scheme)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Establishing an international profile (during a pandemic)’, Internationalisation Colloquium, White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (2023)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Library Music in Contemporary Television’, School of Music, University of Ottawa (2022)

Huelin, Toby, ‘TV PhD Pitch Revisited’, AHTV: Exploring Research in Television, Edinburgh TV Festival (2021)

Conference Papers

Huelin, Toby, ‘Hans Zimmer, Bleeding Fingers, and the Evolution of Library Music’, Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age, University of Music and Theatre Munich (2024)

Huelin, Toby, and Ian Sapiro, ‘Into the Unknown: Behind-the-Scenes Representations of Frozen II’s Music-Production Processes’, Music and the Moving Image XX, New York University (2024)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘“Another Conspiracy About a Royalty-Free Song: Library Music in Contemporary Political Discourse’, Sound on Screen II, Oxford Brookes University (2023)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘“Another Conspiracy About a Royalty-Free Song: Library Music in Contemporary Political Discourse’, Music and the Moving Image XIX, New York University (2023)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Hans Zimmer, Bleeding Fingers, and the Evolution of Library Music’, Scoring Peak TV, Royal Northern College of Music (2022)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘The “Secret” Life of Library Music Composers’, Music and the Moving Image XVIII, New York University (2022)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘The “Hidden” Life of Library Music Composers: Authorship and Anonymity in Contemporary Screen Music’, Anonymity, Un-Originality, Collectivity - Contested Modes of Authorship, University of Warwick (2022)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Compartmentalised Collaboration? Library Music in Factual Television Production’, co-convened panel on ‘Collaboration and Contemporary Working Practices in Music for Film, Television, and Promotional Media’ (with Melissa Morton and Bernadette Pace), BAFTSS Conference, University of St Andrews (2022)

Huelin, Toby, ‘“Exquisitely Criminal Production Music”: Television, Ethics, and the Sound of True Crime’, ‘Library Music in Digital Media’ panel, British Audio-Visual Research Network Virtual Colloquium (2022)

Huelin, Toby, and Ian Sapiro, ‘Into the Unknown: Uncovering the Film-Music Production Processes for Frozen II’, Behind the Screen and Off the Stage, London Metropolitan University (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘It’s “Behind” You! Library Music as Underscore in Contemporary Pantomime’, Song, Stage and Screen XV, University of Salzburg (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘How Much Music? A Content Analysis of British Television Channels’, Sound on Screen I, Oxford Brookes University (2021)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand, ‘Sounds Like the President? Library Music and Donald Trump’, Music and the Moving Image XVII, New York University (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘“Maybe this time we’ll hit the right notes”: Music, Temporality, and Nostalgia on Disney+’, BAFTSS Conference, University of Southampton (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Listening to Trauma on Netflix: Music, Identity and Homecoming in Tidelands’, Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Indiana (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Library Music in Contemporary Television: An Introduction’, SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Soundtracking the City Break: Library Music in Travel Television’, BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, University of Cambridge (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Stick to the Status Quo? Music and Nostalgia on Disney+’, Genre/Nostalgia Conference, University of Hertfordshire (2021)

Huelin, Toby, ‘TV PhD: Reflections on my PhD Work Placement in the TV Industry’, School of Music PGR Symposium, University of Leeds (2020)

Huelin, Toby, and Júlia Durand. ‘Sounds Like Money? Stock Music, Television, and Donald Trump’, Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to “Fake News” to Tweetstorms, London Metropolitan University (2020)

Huelin, Toby, ‘“From a laptop or a cello-seat cushion”: The “unheard” composers of library music’, Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound, Royal Holloway, University of London (2020)

Huelin, Toby, ‘Whirlwind strings and punchy brass fanfares': Library music and its use in British travel television’, Music and the Moving Image XVI, New York University (2020)

Thesis

Huelin, Toby, ‘Library Music and Its Use in Contemporary British Television Production’ (doctoral dissertation, University of Leeds, 2022) [Access link]