Music events

Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway) - Decolonising Music, Good Faith, (less)Safe Spaces and Brave Conversations

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Andrew Kirkman (University of Birmingham) - Songs at the Sacrifice: Text, Music and Meaning in the Late Medieval Mass

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat

In 1997, over one million people gathered in Lagos for the funeral of Fela Kuti, Africa’s biggest artist, who gave the world Afrobeat, yet was also a thorn in the side of Nigeria’s military regimes - a revolutionary who fought injustice with his music and a libertine who married 27 wives in one ceremony.

University of York Sound & Technology Network event

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

PGR Session

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Stonewall Uprising

The role of the June, 1969 Stonewall Riots - so named for the Greenwich Village gay hotel and bar, the Stonewall Inn, in front of which the riots occurred - in gay liberation and the foundation of gay rights in the United States is presented.

David Irving (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) - Eastern Light on Early Music: The Dolmetsch Circle and the Cultures of Africa and Asia

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

Hannah Robbins (University of Nottingham) - The Gospel Truth: Black Lives, Religion, and the American Musical

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Catherine Haworth (University of Huddersfield) - “What the voodoos do”: Reading Identity in the All-Singing, All-Dancing Body of Ann Miller

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes

Docudrama that explores the life and creative output of Coventry born-Delia Derbyshire – electronic musician, sound pioneer and female outsider in postwar Britain.

Sarah Raine (Edinburgh Napier University/University of Limerick) - Negotiating Definitions of Cultural Diversity: Music Festivals in Ireland during COVID-19 and Post-Pandemic

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Lyndon Way (University of Liverpool) - Anti-Populist Populism: Musical Challenges to Trump’s America and Erdoğan’s Turkey

Part of our weekly Music Research seminar series

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

A portrait, mostly chronological, of composer, cellist, and vocalist Arthur Russell (1951-1992). His parents, friends and colleagues such as Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass, his long-time companion Tom Lee, and others provide commentary.

Mykaeli Riley (University of Westminster) - Music as Culture: An exploration of Black British Popular Music

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Oskar Cox Jensen (University of East Anglia) - Protest Song in England, 1600-2020

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Forbidden Planet

The only non-documentary film this year: In this sci-fi classic, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.

University of York Sound and Technology Network event

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

PGR Session

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Rupert Avis (University of Wolverhampton) - Western Classical Music, Class and Education in the Indian City

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series

Liam Maloney and Katherine O’Neill (University of York) - Alone Together: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Spotify Listening During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Part of our weekly Music Research Seminar series