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- Stopping by Woods: A Study on the Soundscape of the Cedar Forest in the Gilgamesh Epic (7/3/2019) - Ever wondered what the gods of Mesopotamian mythology listened to? In this month’s student blog Tzu-Jang Wang explores some of the sounds of a recently discovered section from the Epic of […]
- Matters Psychological and Theoretical in the Second Piano Sonata, opus 40 (1975) by Hubert du Plessis (6/12/2019) - In this month’s blog post, Dominic Daula explores Hubert du Plessis’ Second Piano Sonata. Dominic completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in music at the University of Cape Town under the tutelage […]
- Conference Review: Music, Wellbeing and Mental Health, 11-12 May 2019, Hereford (6/2/2019) - Music, Wellbeing and Mental Health 2019 Hereford College of Arts, 11-12 May 2019 The Music, Wellbeing and Mental Health Study Day and Workshop Day took place at Hereford College […]
- Student Blog: Modelling a change: Sex Workers’ Children and Dance Pedagogy (5/10/2019) - In this month’s blog article, Mohanish Jaju explores the pedagogical strategies of Kathak dance and how the organisation Sutradhar incorporate them as part of their education and social project ‘DEED’. Mohanish Jaju is a professional Indian […]
- ‘You’re just a Remoaner’: Brexit, Discourse and Musicology (3/11/2019) - With just 18 days until ‘Brexit-day’ this month’s feature by James Taylor draws our collective attention to the important relationship between musical discourse and political upheaval. James completed a BA in […]
- 15 Minutes with… the Jerome Roche Prize Winner, Dr Yvonne Liao (2/5/2019) - Will Finch and Phil Robinson join Jerome Roche Prize Winner, Dr Yvonne Liao before her keynote address at the BFE/RMA Research Students Conference in January to talk about intersectionality in […]
- Programme Published / Registration Open: BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference 2019 (12/9/2018) - 10-12 January 2019, University of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/research/conferences/bfe_2019 Keynotes: Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London) Yvonne Liao (University of Oxford) Call for Proposals The Department of Music at the […]
- 15 Minutes with … the Dent Medallist (Interview with Alejandro L. Madrid) (11/9/2018) - As has become a tradition at the annual RMA conference, we interviewed the 2017 Dent medallist a few hours before he delivered his keynote address. Alejandro L. Madrid, a Professor […]
- A musician’s transnational diasporas in a family archive (9/4/2018) - Eileen Karmy-Bolton is a third-year PhD student in Music at the University of Glasgow, researching the working lives of unionised musicians in early twentieth-century Valparaiso, Chile. In this month’s feature, she offers […]
- Blue Planet II, music, culture and nature: What is the sound of one cuttlefish hovering? (8/1/2018) - Will Finch explores music from the nature documentary series, Blue Planet II. He examines the role it plays in the on-screen mediation of human and non-human interaction. Will is currently […]
