I’m in the city of Zagreb in Croatia at the moment to take part in a Knowledge Transfer event run by HERA, the European research agency that funds Rhythm Changes – the jazz research project I’m involved in. HERA funds a bunch of different projects – from pop music to mediaeval manuscripts and the idea [...]
I had a really interesting Skype chat with Mark Williams yesterday afternoon. Not Mark Williams the 1970s New Zealand pop star who had a smash hit with ‘Yesterday Was Just The Beginning Of My Life’, but Mark Williams the director of London community arts organisation Heart N Soul. Mark works a lot with musicians with [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: heartnsoul, Music, research
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
Oliver Carter takes questions from the floor One of the things that happens when you go more fully into research mode is that you end up going to a lot of research meetings and research presentations. And one of the upsides of the area of Media and Cultural Research is that you tend to get [...]
Categories: 365
Tagged: Photo, research, University
Meet the music industry First day back at work today, and I started by gathering together a group of music industry professionals to ask them about what it is they actually do for a living. It’s research. You see, there’s lots of talk about “the music industry” and what they do and think. But there [...]
Categories: 365,Birmingham,Music
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 [...]
Categories: Music,Radio,Technology,University
Tagged: application, culture, media, research
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Music As Culture project with the band UB40. They’re going to be playing a gig at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth on Tuesday to raise money to help the venue pay for a new soundproof roof over the courtyard, so that they don’t get [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,University
Tagged: Birmingham, culture, Music, research, UB40
David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,New Zealand,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
