Music Research Colloquia
2020-21 events
The Leeds Music Research Colloquia take place on Thursdays, 1.00–2.00pm, via Microsoft Teams. All are welcome.
Links to access the Colloquia will be posted to the website before each session, and in future email reminders.
Semester 1
Thursday 8th October
Dr Aleysia Whitmore (Lamont School of Music, University of Denver)
(Re)structuring Musics: How are music cultures shaped by creative & contentious labour within the cultural industries? (And how might we work to reshape them?)
Thursday 22nd October
Dr Paula Wolfe (Singer–songwriter, independent researcher)
Women in The Studio: creativity, control and gender in popular music sound production
Thursday 29th October
Dr Monique Charles (University of Warwick)
Analytical Approaches to Grime Music
Thursday 19th November
Dr Sylvia Bruinders (South African College of Music, University of Cape Town)
The Christmas Bands tradition in the Western Cape, South Africa
Thursday 3rd December
Dr Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Challenging the myth of “The New Yellow Peril” in conservatoires and music departments
Semester 2
Thursday 4th February
Dr Diljeet Bhachu - School of Music, University of Edinburgh; Musicians’ Union (MU); University and Colleges Union (UCU)
Musician, Educator, Researcher, and Activist
Decolonising the Musical University
Thursday 18th February
Prof Jane Ginsborg – Royal Northern College of Music
Professor of Music Psychology and Associate Director of Research
The experiences of mid-career and seasoned orchestral musicians in the UK during the first COVID-19 lockdown
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Thursday 4th March
Prof Bryn Harrison – School of Music, University of Huddersfield
Professor in Composition
Imagining the past through the present: questioning notions of sameness and difference
Thursday 25th March
Dr Moses Nii-Dortey – Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Research Fellow and Lecturer
Historical and cultural contexts of folk opera development and impact in Ghana
Thursday 29th April
Dr Clive McClelland – School of Music, University of Leeds
Associate Professor of Music
Terrifying trees and frightening forests: Signifying the supernatural in Nature in German Romantic music
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