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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 →

A book on the history of European conservatoires has been published, including a chapter by Staff Tutor in Music, Rosemary Golding. The book is based on a series of papers given at an international conference in Milan in 2008. Golding’s chapter … Continue reading →

The Music Department will hold its autumn research day on Thursday 15 November from 10:00am to 4:00pm. We will meet in the Music Research Studio on the Milton Keynes campus. See poster here for details and contact information. All are … 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 →

Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics and Contexts (edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny and Franz Kerschbaumer) has just been published by Northeastern University Press. The book includes a chapter by Catherine Tackley on the multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Benny Carter, who was … Continue reading →