Podcast Re-enactments and the Gendering of Popular Music History
Emergent Media & Entertainment Research Group (EMERG) Inaugural Guest Lecture
Dr. Amy Skjerseth, University of Liverpool
20 April 2023 (Thursday) | 4:00 PM BST | Edge Hill University, Creative Edge Lecture Theatre (CE 017)
Edge Hill University’s new Emergent Media & Entertainment Research Group (EMERG) hosts our inaugural guest lecture, "Podcast Re-enactments and the Gendering of Popular Music History," presented by Dr. Amy Skjerseth, Thursday, 20 April 2023 at 4:00PM BST. The event will take place in the Creative Edge Lecture Theatre (CE 017) on the campus of Edge Hill University (Building 23 on this campus map<https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/documents/Campus-Map-27.07.22.pdf>) in Ormskirk. The event is free and open to the public with a small reception to follow.
Those who cannot attend the lecture in person are invited to register and participate via Microsoft Teams Webinar via the link below:
About Our Speaker
Dr. Amy Skjerseth joined the University of Liverpool in June 2022 as Lecturer in Audiovisual Media. Amy is also co-director of the MA Music and Audiovisual Media Program along with Dr. Andrew Simmons. Just prior to teaching at Liverpool, Amy received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago. She has her MA in English from McGill University, a BA in English from the University of Rochester, and a BM in Oboe Performance from the Eastman School of Music.
Amy is currently working on a book manuscript based on research from her doctoral thesis. Music’s Visual Waves: Popular Music Technology and Audiovisual Aesthetics explores how technological innovations influenced both musical and visual culture over four decades, from 1960s transistor radios to 1990s Auto-Tune. The book’s chapters examine how broadcast technology, magnetic tape, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (the first digital commercial sampler), and voice manipulation software irrevocably altered how artists could remix pre-existing pop songs with countercultural images to create new audiovisual forms of representation. Amy is also planning a book manuscript about the multimedia work of Yoko Ono, who has championed causes from feminism to pacifism by putting them to words, art, music, and more.
Amy’s further research examines how devices from automata to deepfakes shape audiovisual cultures. Her work has been published in journals from Film Criticism and Radio Journal to the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. Amy was an active member of the sound studies community in Chicago, having co-coordinated the Sound and Society Workshop at UChicago from 2017–19 as well as the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies from 2019–2022. She also engages in practice as research as a co-producer of the sound studies podcast “Phantom Power: A Podcast on the Sound Arts and Humanities” and as a producer of audio and audiovisual essays.
About EMERG
The aim of the Emergent Media & Entertainment Research Group (EMERG) is:
* to encourage and support the creation of art and research in the humanities and social sciences related to emergent forms of media, arts, communication, and entertainment and their cultural significance;
* to cultivate an environment of engagement, experimentation, and discovery with these tools and technologies;
* to foster the development of new forms of emergent arts, media, communication, and entertainment, and
* to educate our students, the larger Edge Hill University community, and the public about various forms of emergent art, communication, entertainment, and media and their impact on society through publications, public lectures, white papers, and other outreach activities.
For more information about EMERG, please visit our website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/emerg/
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in April.
Best wishes,
Michael
Dr. Michael L. Austin (he/him)
Senior Lecturer in Music & Sound
Edge Hill University
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