Author Archives: Catherine Tackley

The programme for the second Atlantic Sounds Colloquium has now been launched. This event takes place at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall, timed to coincide with Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival, which takes place from 14-16 June 2013. … Continue reading →

Catherine Tackley will be a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’, hosted by Laurie Taylor (pictured), broadcast live on Wednesday 22nd May at 4pm. The discussion will be inspired by Frith/Brennan/Cloonan/Webster’s The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume … Continue reading →

Last night, Catherine Tackley’s book Benny Goodman’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (OUP) won Jazz Publication of the Year at the nineth PPL sponsored Parliamentary Jazz Awards, judged by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group. Catherine was presented … Continue reading →

OU musicologist Catherine Tackley appeared on the BBC2/Culture Show documentary ‘Swinging into the Blitz’, a counterpart to the successful drama ‘Dancing on the Edge’. The documentary discussed Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson and Leslie Thompson’s bands of black British and West Indian … Continue reading →

‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns’ is an AHRC-funded Research Networking project based at The Open University in collaboration with the University of Liverpool. The project will be staging three colloquia during 2013. The first, ‘Historical Perspectives on Music and Seafaring’ … Continue reading →

Catherine Tackley has contributed a new post to the Oxford University Press Music blog. http://blog.oup.com/2012/10/big-band-swing-music-recordings/

Book Launch: Benny Goodman’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Oxford University Press) Sunday 18 November, 2pm Upstairs at the Kings Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford M3 6AA http://kingsarmssalford.com/ On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America’s … Continue reading →

Dr. Catherine Tackley (Music, The Open University) and Dr. Graeme Milne (History, University of Liverpool) are delighted to announce a new AHRC Research Networking project ‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns’. The ‘Atlantic Sounds’ project aims to investigate, from a UK … Continue reading →