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Publications and research outputs
Book Edited Journal Book Section The Vocalized Tone 'Introduction' Article Technology, Listening and Historical Method: Placing Audio in the Post-War British Home Growing Old Together: Pop Studies and Music Sociology Today Mid-Century Modern Jazz: Music and Design in the Postwar Home
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Introduction: The Critical Imperative New Riffs on the Old Mind-Body Blues: “Black Rhythm,” “White Logic,” and Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century Doing Musical Fieldwork with James G. Spady Eric Drott, Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (Book Review) Hugues Panassié contra Walter Benjamin: Bodies, masses and the iconic jazz recording in mid-century France Thelonious Monk meets the French critics: Art and Entertainment, Improvisation, and its Simulacrum Tradition, modernity and the supernatural swing: re-reading ‘primitivism’ in Hugues Panassié’s writing on jazz Hip hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s Robin D. G. Kelley, 'Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original’ (Book Review) Writing Jazz Biography: Race, Research and Narrative Representation Eithne Quinn, 'Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap’ (Book Review)
Conference or Workshop Item Hearing, Seeing, Talking, Touching: Pop Music Experiences in the Postwar British Home Towards a History of Pop Music in the 20th-Century Home Reimagining Popular Music History
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Historiography and Popular Music Experiments in Critical Music Writing What Next for the History of Popular Music? Towards a History of Pop Music in the British Home Utopia in the Living Room The Look of Listening: Audio Technology and the British Home, 1955-70 Roundtable contributor Panel respondent, Voice, Memory, Song symposium, University of Oxford. November 2014. ‘New Riffs on the Old Mind-Body Blues: “Black Rhythm,” “White Logic” and Music Theory in the 21st-Century’. ‘“A Good Jazzman is a Dead Jazzman”: the History, Memory and Materiality of a French Jazz Past’ Going Cold on Cool: Miles Davis and Ascenseur pour l’échafaud’ “We must expand the domain of jazz so we never have to leave it”: André Hodeir and the search for a European jazz art Miles Davis’s Music for Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1958): Improvisation, Realism and Ideology Jazz Trumpet and the Semiotics of Vulnerability Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s Monk Meets the French Critics Ideologies of Improvisation: Miles Davis’ music for Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Re-reading Primitivism in Hugues Panassié’s Writing on Jazz Thelonious Monk Meets the French Critics: Art and Entertainment, Improvisation, and its Simulacrum Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s Four Histories of 20th-Century Music. Hugues Panassié and Readings of Primitivism in Early French Jazz Criticism Thelonious Monk Meets the French Critics: Improvisation and its Simulacra
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Programme guest, BBC Radio 3, 'Jazz Library: Barney Wilen' Programme guest, BBC Radio 3, 'Jazz Library: Clifford Brown' Programme guest, BBC Radio 3, 'Jazz Library: Booker Little' Programme guest, BBC Radio 3, 'Jazz Library: Lee Morgan' Writer and presenter, Resonance FM series, 'Memoir City'
Professional Activity Project Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (£145,059): Popular Music in the British Home, 1945-90: Technology, Experience and Daily Life AHRC Early Career Fellowship (£64,800). Jazz in France, 1934-75: Contesting the Politics of Nation, Art and World through Music AHRB/C PhD award (2002-5)