Here is the programme for the department’s upcoming research day:
Open University Music Department Research Day
Wednesday 20th May 2015
Music Research Studio, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
12:45 Welcome and lunch
13:30 Malcolm Atkins – Narrative in Dance and Music
14:00 Heather Armsby – The gendered stereotypes of the British brass band
14:30 David Hammond – The repertoire and performance practice of British military bands in the interwar period
15:00 Break
15:15 Tom Hewitt – Entangled Network Space – The Fuzzy Space Where Music Is
15:45 Sarah Clarke – Nineteenth-century guitar players in a Yorkshire country house
16:15 Owen Coggins – “Listening to Mana-Yood-Sushai Makes Me Wish I Was a Tree” Ineffability, Rhetoric and Iconicity in Talking about Drone Metal
16:45 End
To register for the research day, please contact Shirley Parsons (s.a.parsons@open.ac.uk) by 8th May. Please advise Shirley of any dietary requirements.
Folks,
Family commitments permitting ( a second grandchild is due anytime soon) I hope to be able to make what promises to be a really interesting day.
Cheers
Mervyn
This was an excellent day. I really enjoyed what all of the speakers had to say and it was good to hear the dissertation plans of some of the last A877 cohort.
Good to catch up with you too, Mervyn!