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New Article - I Swear I Heard This...
My latest publication looks at the role of process in popular music-making, and the joy that can be found through leaning in to that.
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Aug 10, 2025
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New Article - On Skip-Diving and Hot Dogs
My latest publication looks at popular music, time, and memory through the lens of the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Feb 10, 2024
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Reconceiving spatiality and value in the live music industries in response to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK was predominantly framed as an economic crisis, one in which the economic systems through which revenue …
Iain Taylor
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Craig Hamilton
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and Sarah Raine
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Harkive 2022…the same, but different
Harkive was initially devised as the final project for my MA Music Industries degree, and it ran for the first time in 2013. Almost immediately, the project took off. #harkive became a trending topic; thousands of people told their stories; the project was featured in media outlets across the world (even appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme!
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Jul 10, 2022
4 min read
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Rate and review - Exploring listener motivations for engagement with music podcasts
Exploring podcast review data via digital humanities methods
Craig Hamilton
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and Simon Barber
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Crisis as a Catalyst for Change - COVID19, Spatiality and the UK Live Music Industry
I have a journal article in the latest issue of IASPM journal, looking at COVID19 and the UK live music industry.
Iain Taylor
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Sarah Raine
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and Craig Hamilton
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New issue of Riffs out now!
The latest issue of the Popular Music Studies journal I co-edit has just been released.
Dr Craig Hamilton
Last updated on Aug 12, 2021
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The Harkive Project - Computational Analysis and Popular Music Reception
Exploring Harkive respondents use of streaming services and automated recommendation systems
Craig Hamilton
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Measuring the values of live music - methods, models and motivations
Looking at the many different ways in which live music is measured.
Arno van der Hoeven
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Adam Behr
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Craig Hamilton
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Martijn Mulder
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and Patrycja Rozbicka
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COVID-19 and the UK Live Music Industry - A Crisis of Spatial Materiality
An exploration of how the COVID19 pandemic has been framed in terms of live music ecologies.
Iain Taylor
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Sarah Raine
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and Craig Hamilton
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