Newsletter IASPM UK&I Vol31 July2015
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Newsletter of the IASPM UK and Ireland branch International Association for the Study of Popular Music No. 31, July 2015 Editor: Michalis Poupazis C o n t e n t s Message from the IASPM UK Áine Mangaoan; Photographs. Education: A One-Day and Ireland Chair Pages 8-11 Symposium, Thursday 23rd July A message from Rupert Till 2015, University of Page 2 IASPM UK & Ireland Huddersfield Postgraduate Conference, Page 17 Meet Your New Executive 10-11 September 2015 Cardiff Committee Members University: "Popular Music Call for Papers Rupert Till; Toby Young; Futures" Ireland; Germany; Armenia Rosemary Hill; Sam Murray; By Sam Murray. Pages 18-20 Michalis Poupazis; Matt Page 12 Brennan; Simon Barber; Áine Publications Mangaoan. The Andrew Goodwin IASPM; Routledge; Ashgate Pages 3-6 Memorial Prize Pages 21-22 By Matt Brennan IASPM Executive Committee Page 13 IASPM UK & Ireland Responsibilities Membership Chair; Membership Secretary; IASPM UK & Ireland Join the IASPM family Treasurer; Postgraduate Rep.; Members Achievements Page 23 Newsletter Editor; Member at Lijuan Qian; Áine Mangaoan Large. Page 14 IASPM World Network Page 7 All branches Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Pages 24-25 IASPM UK & Ireland Review Biennial Conference Review, By Sam Murray A Snapshot from Our First 12-14 September Pages 15-16 Executive Committee Meeting 2014,University College Cork, Photograph; Editor Ireland: “Worlds of Popular IASPM UK & Ireland Page 26 Music” Associated Events Review by Tom Western and Research in Popular Music Newsletter of the IASPM UK and Ireland Vol 31 - July 2015 - Page 1 Message from the IASPM UK & Ireland Chair Dear members of Education) are also supporting. Hopefully we the UK and Ireland can prompt more of this kind of collaborative b r a n c h o f t h e interaction in the future. International As ever we welcome ideas from any IASPM Association for the members who have thoughts about what you Study of Popular Music, would like our branch to do. We run a I am very proud to have conference every two years, alternating with been elected branch the IASPM International Conference. We also chair. I see the role as run an IASPM UK and Ireland Postgraduate one of representation, a conference. If there are other things you think facilitator rather than a we should do, please let me know, and we leader, and hope to follow in the footsteps of my will see what can be done about it! As a hardworking predecessors. I’d like to thank committee we would like to make IASPM a Matt Brennan who did this job before me, and little more visible in the UK and Ireland, but who is staying on within the committee, which as ever this is easier said than done. will provide invaluable experience to the rest of Three things we are going to try to do are us. trying to get more musicians and music Our branch is very healthy at present. We have business participants to come to the 145 members, and a little money in the bank. conference; winding down the IASPM UK We would like to increase membership numbers Facebook page (which hardly anyone uses) a little, so if you know of any colleagues who but promoting the IASPM International carry out research or teaching in popular music Facebook page (which is much more worth studies, who are lecturers or postgraduates in a joining, please look it up!); and exploring related area, or who work in the music industry ways for IASPM members to participate in or are musicians, please encourage them to join. collaborative research grant applications. We Most of our budget is used up providing grants hope to arrange a research sandpit in the to participate in the IASPM Conference for future, at which IASPM members will be able those with financial needs, and we are trying to to come together and develop applications for expand our activities in this area, by becoming grant funding, and to share ideas about how involved in co-producing other events which to be successful. We would all like to see relevant to our members. We are hoping to work more funded popular music research. with other organisations in the future to a Let me know by email what you think of greater extent to facilitate this. those ideas, and we will let you know how we We are for example working with ISME get on. (International Society for Music Educators) in preparation for this large organisation to hold its Yours international conference in Glasgow next year. They have launched a popular music special Rupert Till interest group, and we hope to collaborate closely with them on this. We are also arranging Chair of International Association for the with Gareth Dylan Smith, who is involved in Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland both the ISME and IASPM, a research in Branch popular music education symposium which the Association of Popular Music Educators (APME, a US based group), and NAMHE (the UK National Association for Music in Higher Newsletter of the IASPM UK and Ireland Vol 31 - July 2015 - Page 2 Meet Your New Executive Committee Members CHAIR: Rupert Till My popular music research has been focused on ( R e a d e r i n M u s i c , electronic dance music, music and meaning/ University of Huddersfield) religion/spirituality, stardom, and popular music I have worked at the composition and performance. University of Huddersfield for about 10 years, and I MEMBERSHIP have lived in Sheffield for SECRETARY: Toby Young about the last 25 years. (University of Oxford) Having grown up in York, I I'm a Londoner, born studied music, or rather and bred, with most of my performing arts, at what was then Leicester life spent in and around Polytechnic (now De Montefort University). I Camden. I started off my focused on composition, with Gavin Bryars and musical life as a jazz pianist other experimental composers and performers - a skill that has mostly been heading up the course. I went on to do an MA in abandoned sadly - though Music Technology at York University. Through have always had a bizarrely wide musical taste, all of that, I played in bands, playing piano, which led me to try my hand at classical guitar and bass, and wrote music using composition. Through sheer luck I won the computers, synths and samplers. I ran a PA and BBC Young Composer of the Year Competition lights company. I ceased being a sound engineer when I was 16, which gave me the confidence at the Leadmill in Sheffield to work in a small to apply for a more 'traditional' music degree. I FE/HE college in Barnsley teaching music did my undergrad and masters at King's technology and popular music. I did my PhD College, Cambridge (the second two years of part-time (ambient techno composition and undergrad being co-opted into the chapel choir) postmodernity) while holding down a full-time and found that alongside composition I enjoyed job lecturing. I moved to Bretton Hall philosophy and analysis, so I ended up for my University College, teaching on the BA Popular masters doing a half-half aesthetics / analysis Music Studies at Bretton Hall, and left there piece with Nick Cook supervising me. when it merged with Leeds University to go However the most important bit of freelance. A few years later I went to the university for me was discovering a huge love University of Huddersfield, teaching music of EDM, and spending a disproportionate technology to start with, but increasingly amount of time DJing at DnB clubs. In my focusing on popular music musicology, MPhil year I started writing some DnB and got composition and performance. I first went to an taken up as a writer by Chase&Status, with IASPM conference a few hours after submitting whom I co-wrote half of the last album. Since my PhD, this was in Australia in 1999. I’ve then I've become a house writer for their label been to a few UK and Ireland conferences, but MTA records, and done arrangements for Ellie have been more regularly to the international Goulding, Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, etc. IASPM conferences. I'm now a lecturer in music at Somerville I became Reader in Music recently. I am College, Oxford, and Co-Director of the part of a large EU grant project focusing on interdisciplinary Oxford Centre for Creativity in music archaeology, I am recording and Research (OCCR). I also have a visiting producing recordings based on performances on lectureship in pop music at the University of replicas of ancient musical instruments, 40,000 Westminster, where I'm currently working on a years old to relatively modern at 600AD! paper on the asthetics of violence in EDM. Newsletter of the IASPM UK and Ireland Vol 31 - July 2015 - Page 3 Meet Your New Executive Comitte Members TREASURER: Rosemary Lucy Hill I am also working as a research assistant (University of Leeds) with the university’s Creative Cardiff project, I gained my PhD in Women’s Studies at mapping Cardiff’s creative economy and the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, focusing on the representations and establishing a creative industry network. I am experiences of women hard rock and metal fans. also a member of the Eurovision Research I have written for the Journal for Cultural Network researching the incredible cultural Research and the International Journal of phenomenon that is the Eurovision Song Community Music on the ideology of metal, the Contest. moral panic around emo, imaginary community I’m hoping to facilitate more events for and the media representation of women fans.