"researcher profile" blog posts
Spinning the Child: How records made for children construct childhood
In the sleeve notes to one of his two albums for children, Woody Guthrie wrote “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” As I discovered from my now-completed PhD on the topic of records made for children, Woody’s songs were often far from simple, yet his words have proved helpful whilst I was finishing up my thesis.
Posted on: 12 September 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
Focus on: Leonieke Bolderman
'I have been in Liverpool now for little over a week, and the welcome I received here has been truly wonderful. In The Netherlands, you’re encouraged as a young researcher to spend a few weeks to a few months at a foreign university to expand your intellectual horizons and get feedback on your work by experts in the field. The publications of IPM researchers have been very helpful in my research on music tourism, and that is why I really wanted to spend some time here and discuss the main issues and questions related to music tourism.
Posted on: 4 March 2016
Notes from the field: Þorbjörg Daphne Hall
Conducting fieldwork in a place in which you live has both its perks and perils as seemingly you have endless access to the field – but the risk is that everyday life takes over and the ‘academic’ data gathering keeps getting postponed. Luckily, my professional life is immersed in music which certainly helps understanding the field and I have relatively easy access to respondents. I would like to share two events which have been particularity fruitful for my research in the last few months.
Posted on: 27 February 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