Upcoming Events

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Voice and Listening Reading Group with Rajni Shah

March 29th, 2023

Rajni Shah is a performance maker, writer, and researcher. Their first monograph – Experiments in Listening – was published in the Performance Philosophy book series in 2021. It effects a shift that provides a key thematic thread of this special issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies, one that interweaves all the contributions in different...

Popular Music: Demo tapes

March 29th, 2023

In this forthcoming session, five members of the Popular Music Research cluster will present short “work-in-progress” presentations. Find out more in the talk blurbs and speaker bio notes below. . Sam Coley (BCU) Get Things Done: The Commodification of David Bowie in 1983 1983 was a pivotal point in the career of musician David Bowie,...

Tom Western – Covered Mouths Still Have Voices (reading group discussion)

April 4th, 2023

You are warmly invited to a reading group to discuss a new essay by Tom Western (UCL Geography): ‘Covered Mouths Still Have Voices’. This is part of a series of events to celebrate the launch of the special issue ‘Voice and Listening: Techniques for Political Life’, newly published in the Journal of Sonic Studies. The...

Popular Music: Global Reggae Research Seminar

April 19th, 2023

This session features a panel presentation from members of BCMCR’s Global Reggae Research Project. We focus on music and the visual image, music culture archives and the role of the researcher in musics of black origin. We also draw upon our collaborations with the Reggae Research Unit at the University of West Indies, Mona and...

“Audience”: Responses to the BCMCR theme“Audience” from the Popular Music cluster

April 26th, 2023

This Popular Music Research cluster research seminar is dedicated to the current BCMCR theme “Audience” and will include two distinctive sections. First, we will welcome our guest speaker Mark Duffett of University of Chester who will be presenting a talk on tropes of empowerment in autobiographies written by female pop and rock music fans. The...