Monthly Archives: July 2012

New book: Eurojazzland

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

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New issue of ‘Music, Sound, and the Moving Image’

A new issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image has just been published by Liverpool University Press. Devoted to ‘Film Music and Narrative’ it has been edited by OU Music Lecturer Ben Winters, and features articles by scholars of … Continue reading

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Significant contribution by OU Music Department to RMA Music and Philosophy conference

The work of the Open University Music Department is strongly represented at the forthcoming RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group 2nd Annual Conference at Kings College London. Robert Samuels will be chairing a session on “Music and Language” while Byron … Continue reading

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New Research on Private (Musical) Lives of Tweens and Teens

Music department lecturer Ruth Herbert has just published an article in the July issue of Music Teacher magazine on children and teenagers subjective experiences of music outside school. The article heralds the start of a nationwide three year research project … Continue reading

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IMS Music and Media Study Group

Ben Winters has just returned from the University of Turin, where he gave a paper entitled ‘Rehearing Classical Hollywood: Concert Scenes and the Self-Referential Score’ at the Music and Media 4th Study Group Conference (in association with the International Musicological … Continue reading

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