Areas of expertise
- The development and impact of ideologies of authenticity on popular music
- Industry structures, production developments and the role of specialist media in 60s rock (with particular focus on the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane)
- Use of popular music in film
- Explorations of the nature of the recorded musical work
Membership of professional bodies
I am an Associate of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the International Association for The Study of Popular Music and the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production.
Conferences
Sep 2018, ''Spot the Difference': Reproduction, Re-recording and the Reimagining of historic tracks', Crosstown Traffic, Popular Music Theory and Practice international conference, Huddersfield University
Apr 2018, Interview with Ronan Monroe, Nightshift: Exploring Oxford’s Music Magazine Study Day, Oxford Brookes University (co-organiser)
Apr 2013, 'The Musicology of Record Production', Institute for Musical Research postgraduate training day, invited speaker
Apr 2011, Lead organizer of Shifting Ground II: A Symposium on Music and Publishing, Oxford Brookes University
Jan 2010, ‘The Role of the Rock Cultural Intermediary: The Birth of the American Rock Press in the 1960s’, Shifting Ground: A Study Day in Popular Music and Publishing, Oxford Brookes University (co-organiser)
Nov, 2009 ‘Authentic Independents: Myth or Reality?’, The Art of Record Production Conference, University of Cardiff
Jul 2009, ‘The Critic as New Cultural Intermediary: the rise of the American rock press in the 1960s’, 6th International Conference on Music since 1900, University of Keele
Jul 2009, 'The Reception of the Use of Technology in the work of Jimi Hendrix', 15th Biennial International IASPM Conference, University of Liverpool
Jun 2009, ‘Ticket To Ride’: Album Art as a Gateway to the Psychedelic Community’, RMA Study Day: Image, Music, Identity: Constructing and Experiencing Identities through Music in Visual Culture Conference, University of Nottingham
Sep 2005, ‘The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the musicology of record production’, CHARM/The Art of Record Production Conference, University of Westminster
Aug 2005, ‘High Fidelities: The discourse of authenticity and Jimi Hendrix’, 4th International Conference on Twentieth-century music, University of Sussex
Jan 2004, ‘Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge: A new film music?’, RMA Students’ Conference, Royal Holloway
Other experience
Editorial Manager, twentieth century music journal, 2005-2011
Visiting Lecturer in Popular Music Analysis, Sheffield University 2010
Lecturer in Music Production and Popular Music, Leeds College of Music, 2007-2009
Visiting Lecturer and Guest lecturer (various, including modules on Popular Music in Film and Recorded Music in Society), University of Nottingham 2005-2008