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Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017). Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi)

Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug took hold and, in the period that followed, spread throughout Europe. This... Read More about Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe.

Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2017, February). Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Music Research Seminar Series

The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in formal music education, our roles as HE popular music educators, coupled with o... Read More about Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access..

Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2017, February). Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Innovations in Teaching and Supporting Learning Teaching Fellows Conference

The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in formal music education, our roles as HE popular music educators, coupled with o... Read More about Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access..

Popular Music Education (R)evolution (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. D., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (2017). Popular Music Education (R)evolution. In G. Dylan Smith, Z. Moir, M. Brennan, S. Rambarran, & P. Kirkman (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education. Oxon: Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (2017)
Book
Dylan Smith, G., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education. Oxon: Taylor & Francis

Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are beco... Read More about The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education.

David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven (2017)
Other
Frayn, A., & Durkin, R. (2017). David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

On David Bowie's Blackstar as embodying aspects of late style, as discussed by Theodor Adorno and Edward Said. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry (2017)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z. (2017). Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry. In R. Mantie, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.9

Many young people are involved in music making activities that may be considered as “leisure,” such as playing in bands, making recordings, or live performance. Music making, when considered as a leisure activity, is a cultural or social phenomenon t... Read More about Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry.

Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet (2016)
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P. (2016). Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson, J. L. Paterson, & R. Toulson (Eds.), Innovation in Music II (174-178). Future Technology Press

The recent but rapid adoption of networked audio systems such as RedNet within the commercial and education domains is, as yet, limited to Local Area Networks (LANs) or Campus Area Networks (CANs). However, the increased connection bandwidth offered... Read More about Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet.

Jamming in the 3rd Room. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2016, December). Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Art of Record Production, Aalborg, Denmark

No abstract available.

Real Sounds, Real Instruments: Discourses of Fidelity and Authenticity in the Design and Use of Digital Sampling Technologies (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2016, December). Real Sounds, Real Instruments: Discourses of Fidelity and Authenticity in the Design and Use of Digital Sampling Technologies. Paper presented at Art of Record Production (ARP) conference, University of Aalborg

This paper explores how an ideology of realism was central to the designers of early digital synthesizer/sampling technologies and how discourses of authenticity remain important to the contemporary users of digital technologies in the production of... Read More about Real Sounds, Real Instruments: Discourses of Fidelity and Authenticity in the Design and Use of Digital Sampling Technologies.

Sandy Brechin & Friends - Barnstorf, Germany (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Currie, J., & Brechin, S. Sandy Brechin & Friends - Barnstorf, Germany. Performed at Bahnhofshalle, Barnstorf, Germany. 19 November 2016 - 19 November 2016. (Unpublished)

Am Samstagabend verwandelten sich der Kiosk von Stefan Vormschlag, Barnstorf, und die Bahnhofshalle und Ballroom. Die Züge hielten gefühlte Sekunden länger am Bahnsteig, damit die Reisenden den Anblick der etwa 150 Gäste beim Konzert von „Sandy Brech... Read More about Sandy Brechin & Friends - Barnstorf, Germany.

Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (2016)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016). Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press

Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the marketing and critical discussion of jazz from the region. While undoubtedly... Read More about Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North.

The Edinburgh Festival FRINGE - Sandy Brechin Band (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Currie, J., Brechin, S., Mill, A., Oke, W., Anderson, R., & Brady, P. The Edinburgh Festival FRINGE - Sandy Brechin Band. Performed at Acoustic Music Centre@St Brides. 23 August 2016 - 23 August 2016. (Unpublished)

Wild man of the accordion and frontman of Burach and the Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums, Out of his Box and Out of his Tree, along with some fantastic new material. Accompanied by W... Read More about The Edinburgh Festival FRINGE - Sandy Brechin Band.