I gave a keynote presentation at the Fremtidens musikalske entreprenører conference, which was held at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen yesterday. My topic was ‘Musicians are Media Producers’ and I spoke for about half an hour with about 15 minutes of questions afterwards. A couple of people asked if my slides would be available, [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: presentation, Seminar
I’ve been running the MA in Music Industries (as well as the MA in Music Radio) this year at Birmingham City University. We had our first intake in February, and things really kicked in for the September intake. From September we’ve also been offering the course as a distance learning programme, which is great because [...]
Categories: Education,University
Tagged: Education, music business
I was in London this week, presenting at a conference about Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change. Some really interesting stuff in there – and the keynotes were really quite spectacularly good. Dick Hebdidge (above), who literally wrote the book on Subcultures, presented a fascinating tour from punk rock to centenarians on Facebook via Japanese [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: Conference
For the past week, I’ve been in Amsterdam as part of the Rhythm Changes project. Rhythm Changes is the three-year European jazz research project I’m involved in, and this was the big conference on Jazz and National Identity. Academics from around the world came together to talk about their own research, share ideas, give presentations, [...]
Categories: Research,Travel,University
I’m in Madrid today at a conference about the independent music industry in the digital age. I’m doing the keynote speech tomorrow, and I’m here with my colleague Jez Collins (left, above) who’s going to be talking about music, identity and cities. The first thing we’ve noticed is the heat. It’s around 40 degrees here. [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: Conference, Madrid, Seminar
Earlier this year, we launched the MA in Music Industries. It’s a course I lead and teach with some of my colleagues at Birmingham City University’s School of Media. It’s been going well so far, with a small group of smart people doing interesting research and study about the music business and popular music culture. [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: Distance Learning, MA, MA Music Industries
I spent the day today working at home with my colleague Jez Collins and after a lot of planning, writing and brainstorming, we had a Skype meeting with Professor Tim Wall to talk about (among other things) the ongoing development of Masters programmes at Birmingham City University. I’m already the award leader on an MA [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: BCU, Internet, mamusicind, mamusicrad
This is a presentation I gave at the Watching Jazz conference in Glasgow recently. It’s about a research project I did with some colleagues from BCU at the Scarborough Jazz Festival, and how we approached putting that event online. I presented it as a way of contextualising some ideas that I’ll be developing in my [...]
Categories: Research,University
Tagged: Glasgow, jazz, Scarborough
Craig, Rich, Ruth & Yinka I taught a class today. Even though I’m running the degree, it was actually the first time I’d flown solo on the MA Music Industries ‘Popular Music As Culture’ module. The discussion today was largely about the professional culture of music industries, and the idea of ‘work’ as it applies [...]
Categories: Education,Music,University
Tagged: mamusicind
We had a BCU School of Media “Away Day” today – though it was just a few blocks up the road in another university building called The Pavilions, at our sports ground. Food and coffee and an opportunity to do a bit of blue sky thinking with a bunch of colleagues you don’t always get [...]
Categories: University
