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Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412442671

This paper is concerned with the relationship between performers and audiences in the live performance of popular music, a relationship that is examined through the concept of genre culture and a microsociological study of improvised music as a terri... Read More about Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation.

Organ Recital Mainzer Dom. (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Harris, M. (2012). Organ Recital Mainzer Dom. Performed at Mainz, germany. 4 August 2012 - 4 August 2012

Concert performance in 2012 Internationaler Orgelsommer 4 August 2012. Showcase of British music from 19th and 20th centuries. Weitz Fanfare and Gothic March; Handel Organ Concerto Op 4 No 5; W.T.Best Sonata in G; Francis Jackson Toccata, Chorale... Read More about Organ Recital Mainzer Dom..

Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet (2012)
Journal Article
Køhlert, F. B. (2012). Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 3(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2012.703883

The comics of Julie Doucet can be productively interpreted in light of Mikhail Bakhtin's exploration of the carnivalesque and its aesthetic expression as grotesque realism. By employing subject matter and a visual style grounded in the grotesque, Dou... Read More about Female grotesques: carnivalesque subversion in the comics of Julie Doucet.

Evaluating historic graffiti based on cultural significance and definitions of art (2012)
Journal Article
Vettese-Forster, S., & Forster, A. M. (2012). Evaluating historic graffiti based on cultural significance and definitions of art. Journal of European Popular Culture, 2, 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.2.2.113_1

Many examples of historic graffiti have been shown to be worthy of attention and conservation. The examples discussed in this article have been selected for their previous academic study, enabling rational assessment. This work does not suggest that... Read More about Evaluating historic graffiti based on cultural significance and definitions of art.

Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medbøe, H. (2012, July). Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. Paper presented at International Musicological Society

Historians and educators have traditionally presented the century long evolution of jazz in a linear, canonical fashion. Applications of this model are often limited to the music’s domestic evolution, paying scant heed to activities outside the USA.... Read More about Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style..

EMG (2012)
Other
Hails, J. (2012). EMG. [Musical score]. Edinburgh, Scotland

Work for solo piano requested and first performed by Nicholas Ashton. This work samples vertical chord structures from an earlier piece for piano (EVEN MORE GEESE), which itself was derived from an ensemble piece (More Geese). These samples are pre... Read More about EMG.

A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens (2012)
Thesis
Xenou, A. S. A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423

Using my family experience as an auto-ethnographic case, I consider how photography creates postmemory and counter-memory and how it has come to adopt the position it currently holds in funereal rituals in Athens. My historical examination begins fro... Read More about A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens.

Why throw the negs out with the bath water? (2012)
Journal Article
Macdonald, I. (2012). Why throw the negs out with the bath water?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 31, 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2012.01735.x

Today’s digital age holds so much promise it is easy to dismiss the previous technologies and processes that provided yesterday’s creative opportunities. Photography has been revolutionised by digital capture and transmission in the last decade. This... Read More about Why throw the negs out with the bath water?.

Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music (2012)
Thesis
Eccles, J. Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5676

Aspects of poetry and symmetry are taken to represent the tension within the compositional process between spontaneous impulses and intuitive insights on the one hand, and more consciously imposed structure and organization on the other. These forces... Read More about Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music.

Hidden Stories (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, S. Hidden Stories. Exhibited at Dovecot Studios Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2 June 2012 - 8 June 2012. (Unpublished)

Selected for Hidden Stories exhibition at the Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh showcasing the work of Creative Scotland con-TEXT residencies at Heriot-Watt University injunction with a curated Heriot-Watt University textile graduate exhibition by Mark Eley... Read More about Hidden Stories.

Film: Tree of Tule (2012)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2012). Film: Tree of Tule

While on his travels, an adventurous young boy meets a magical ancient tree and he embarks on a quest across Mexico to help the tree find a new home. Duration: 10’10”, Director & Producer: Paul Gray

The Steampunk Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Artt, S. (2012, June). The Steampunk Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock. Paper presented at Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics, University of Amsterdam

This paper will examine the recent refashioning of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation as steampunk action hero in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes(2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), and alternatively as obssessive compulsive odd... Read More about The Steampunk Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock..

I Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative (2012)
Book Chapter
Køhlert, F. B. (2012). I Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative. In B. Beaty, & S. Weiner (Eds.), Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents & Underground Classics (367-369). (Second Edition). Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press

Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property? (2012)
Thesis
Ramdarshan Bold, M. Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5421

The aim of this study is to understand the operational practices of copyright exploitation and protection from the perspective of the Scottish publishing industry. The study begins with a historical overview of the development of copyright legislatio... Read More about Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?.

Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, May). Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others. Paper presented at Narratives of Peace, 1854–1914, University of Sheffield

This paper argues that it is pertinent to see narratives of pacifism during the First World War in the context of later disenchanted writings, and that these often share linguistic and thematic concerns. Works which dared to express discontent with... Read More about Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others.