Nina Kechagia
The project aims to investigate how electronic music culture and scenes contribute to Liverpool’s evolving cultural heritage and memory. It explores how the city’s underground music culture forms a vital layer of its identity — one that challenges and enriches official narratives of what counts as cultural heritage. The research focuses on underrepresented voices within these communities, revealing how their stories, spaces, and creative practices shape the city’s collective memory and redefine its place within global conversations about music, identity, and heritage.
Nina Kehagia is a cultural strategist and digital creator specialising in music, culture and the creative industries.
Nina’s current research focuses on dance music history, cultural heritage and how music cities shape culture.
Teaching and learning
GTA work 2nd semester in 2026
Visiting Lecturer (Industry) : Invited to speak at Hope University, University of Liverpool (since 2021)
Outputs
Conferences 2025
- Dancecult Research Network Conference (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, Jan 2025)
- Night Time Economy Summit (Birmingham, Feb 2025)
- IPM Symposium 2025 (University of Liverpool, April 2025))
- Brighton Music Conference (Brighton, May 2025)
- Sound City (Liverpool, May 2025)
- 2nd Annual COSME PGR Conference - Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries (University of Liverpool, May 2025)
Papers
- Recurring patterns: An ethnographic study on the adoption of AI music tools by practitioners of electroacoustic, contemporary and popular musics - DOI: 10.1386/jpm_00004_1 (2023)
- Two Turntables and a Hundred Buttons: A Taxonomy of Contemporary DJ Practices (to be published November 2025 at Dancecult, Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture)
Supervisors
Marion Leonard, Robert Strachan