Event overview
'Intimacy, imagining, and open access: mass mediation and ethnomusicological research'
Byron Dueck joined the Open University Music Department as Lecturer in January 2012. He was previously Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and before that held posts as University Fellow in Music at the Open University and Coordinator of Musicology at Columbia College Chicago.
He studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, where his doctoral research focused on public performances of First Nations and Métis music and dance in the western Canadian city of Winnipeg. His earlier musical studies, in piano performance, were undertaken at the University of Minnesota (MMus 1998) and Wilfrid Laurier University (BMus 1994).
Dueck’s research interests include indigenous music and dance in Canada, popular music in Cameroon, and jazz performance in the United Kingdom. His work in these areas is connected by a number of overarching themes, including musical public cultures; the musical mediation of multiculturalism; and the social implications of rhythm and metre.
Dueck’s research on aboriginal music and dance will be highlighted in his forthcoming monograph, 'Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance in Manitoba' (Oxford University Press).
Dueck was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘What is Black British Jazz?’ project and is co-editor of a 2013 special issue of the Black Music Research Journal focusing on jazz and race in the UK. He is also a member of the ‘Experience and Meaning in Music Performance’ group, whose research will be disseminated in the forthcoming edited collection Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (Oxford University Press).
Open to all - not just graduates!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Feb 2013 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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