In exploring these themes MCC brings together contemporary, historical and pedagogical perspectives and ranges across popular, jazz, classical and experimental traditions through all periods.

Areas of expertise include analytical techniques; archival, editing and source studies; critical, cultural-historical and digital musicologies; interdisciplinary and cross-arts collaboration; music psychology; sociology; music education; and practice research. 

Key themes

• Music, place and space
• Music, politics and institutions
• Voice, text and embodiment
• Mutability and the ‘musical work’
• Listening, performance and reception
• Musical creativity in education and community practices
• Inclusivity, wellbeing and social change

Groups

• Music Education Research
• Early Music Research Group
• MCC Listening and Reading Group

Projects

• Opera and/as Activism (Aine Sheil, Rachel Cowgill)
• InConcert: Towards a Collaborative Digital Archive of Musical Ephemera (Rachel Cowgill)
• The Nature of Nordic Music (Tim Howell)
• From Score to Sound: Engaging Audiences with New Music (Tim Howell)
• South African Jazz Cultures and the Archive (Jonathan Eato)