One of the things you get to do as an academic is to read things, think about them, and then talk about them. And sometimes, you get to do that with people who really know what they’re talking about. There’s a small group of us that get together once a month or so at Salford [...]
Categories: Education,University
Tagged: capitalism, jazz, research
Keynote speech at Like Minds, Exeter (photo by Harry Duns) I’ve been doing more and more public speaking over the last year or so, and it’s showing little sign of slowing down. I have a couple of upcoming keynote speeches that I’m really excited about over the next month – one music industry event, and [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio,Travel,University
Tagged: Auckland, brazil, Conference, Keynote, Speech
I first met Nancy Baym on Twitter, and now we’re also friends on Facebook. We’ve talked via email about a couple of things as well. She’s a professor in the US and we have some mutual friends in common, many of whom one or both of us have never actually met in person. She’s written [...]
Categories: culture,Education,Technology,University
Tagged: Academic, Internet, Interview, Music, Social media
This is a short video taken by one of the artists involved in the Aftershock Project in Manchester earlier this year. In it, some musicians are composing a song together. A week earlier, most of them had never met. A week later, they had performed that song together on stage in front of a packed [...]
Categories: Music,University,Video
Tagged: Academic, Aftershock, Nitin Sawhney
You may be aware that I like jazz. I used to host a jazz radio programme, I once co-owned a jazz record label, and I have a lot of jazz records. But other than those times I’ve been able to squeeze it into my research (specialist music radio – including jazz; music on the internet [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: jazz, Rhythm Changes, Vienna
My work with Punch Records on Protest, the internet and the notion of Remixhibitions took an interesting turn today. Local community radio station New Style Radio is in the midst of a battle between its staff and the board. Station volunteers have been locked out of the building and are trying to raise awareness of [...]
Categories: Birmingham,University
I’m working with an organisation called Punch Records at the moment on what’s called a Knowledge Transfer project. The idea is to put academics together with businesses and cultural organisations in order to try and make university knowledge ‘useful’ in the real world. This might take some explaining, but there’s a cool payoff which I [...]
Categories: Art,culture,University
Tagged: propaganda, protest, South Africa, UK
Photo by hans.gerwitz I had it all planned. There was a lot to get through today, but I had it all in order. First, I was going to finish preparing and then present a research seminar about the work I’d done with the Aftershock Project – and how we ended up developing a digital narrative [...]
Categories: University
Nice promotional video featuring some of my colleagues and students at BCU. There’s a bit about some of the BA courses, and something about the MA courses too. My own MA course – the MA in Music Industries kicks off in September. There’s some information about that here, if you’re interested.
Categories: Birmingham,University
Tagged: BCU
Photo by Birmingham City University So, it’s official – we’re going to be launching our MA in Music Industries this year, and you can come and study on a post-graduate programme that I’m going to be teaching on, along with a bunch of very cool and interesting people. The course kicks off in September, but [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: BCU, MA, Music Industries
