"popular music" blog posts
Challenge and Change in Popular Music
This summer, the Institute of Popular Music and Department of Music host Challenge and Change in Popular Music, an international conference organised in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Posted on: 8 August 2022
Research in Progress: Popular Music and Heritage
4pm Tuesday 21 March 2017, Large Music Room, 80-82 Bedford Street South Emma Reekie and Marion Leonard from the Department of Music will deliver short presentations on their current research.
Posted on: 20 March 2017
Pop Hearts Nonsense
Research Seminar @ 4pm, Large Music Room, 80-82 Bedford Street South
Posted on: 20 February 2017
Focus on: Emily Baker
‘I talk about Aretha Franklin a lot’ This, I found, tends to be the ‘in’ to explaining my thesis to polite strangers on a plane. ‘Really?..you can study that?!’
Posted on: 1 October 2016
Popular Music Studies Workshop
POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES WORKSHOP Senate House, London Wednesday 7 September 2016
Posted on: 18 September 2016
Mike Jones on Prince (1958 -2016)
What is so difficult to accept or comprehend about the death of Prince Rogers Nelson is that he was so vital – as a performer, as a writer, as a human being.
Posted on: 22 April 2016
Dave Laing Research Seminar ‘Punks Not Dead!’ Or is it?
The Tuesday Series of Music Research Seminars Second Semester 2015/16 Large Music Room, 80-82, Bedford Street South 4pm, Tuesday 12th April
Posted on: 22 April 2016
Focus on: David Horn
I’m currently editing Vol.IX of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, which is devoted to popular music genres in Europe. My co-editor for this volume is Paolo Prato,who lives in Rome, and this will be the fourth volume in a seven volume set on genres.
Posted on: 16 March 2016
Focus on: Freya Jarman
Freya travelled to Germany last month to speak at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Göttingen University.
Posted on: 22 February 2016