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 [...]
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Dr Jazz: Ninja At work today, Jez was taunting Simon (aka Dr Jazz), our resident ninja. Not a brilliant idea, as Simon is actually a genuine ninja. Like, actually studies the martial art of Bruce Lee and practices it to a high degree of skill. Jez’s challenge was for Simon to punch through a piece [...]
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At home with academic and author David Hendy I had a meeting in Oxford with David Hendy today. He’s a Reader at the University of Westminster and the author of some very fine books about radio, including the highly acclaimed Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. His book Radio in the Global Age [...]
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Jazz musicians at the Conservatoire come face to face with Media students I went to the Birmingham Conservatoire this evening. Now that they’re part of the same faculty as us, we’re finally allowed to do collaborative stuff. I was there with our Music Promotions and PR second year students, whose job it is to select [...]
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Our glamorous campus. Photo courtesy Birmingham City University Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research Research Studentship worth £16,680 Popular music and radio in the digital age The Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research is a rapidly developing centre of research excellence based at Birmingham City University with a community of over thirty academics [...]
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I remember last time I became a reader… I had a phone call from work this morning. They had a meeting of what they call their Conferment of Academic Titles Panel, and they have awarded me a Readership. This is something that will make very little sense outside the context of a university, but it’s [...]
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Welcome to The Treehouse This is, officially speaking, where I work. You might call it the Interactive Cultures Research Unit. Or simply Room 412. We call it The Treehouse.
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Late afternoon train to London I took a train down to London to give an evening lecture to the Westminster MA in Music Business Management students. Nice day, with a lovely sunset – which is always worth taking the Chiltern line to Marylebone for. Takes longer, but it’s cheaper – and on nice days, it’s [...]
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Dave Harte and Jon Hickman in a feature about Birmingham City University’s MA Social Media course. I work with these guys – and no, they don’t normally throw balls of wool around or drink digital beer.
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Once or twice a year, I find myself at an academic conference about jazz. The Leeds one is a regular feature, but there are others that crop up from time to time, and for the last couple of days, I was in Manchester for the ‘Mediating Jazz‘ conference put on by Salford Uni. It’s a [...]
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