Popular-Music

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!

I have a journal article in the latest issue of IASPM journal, looking at COVID19 and the UK live music industry.

The latest issue of the Popular Music Studies journal I co-edit has just been released.

Exploring Harkive respondents use of streaming services and automated recommendation systems

Looking at the many different ways in which live music is measured.

An exploration of how the COVID19 pandemic has been framed in terms of live music ecologies.

A chapter I co-wrote with my colleague, Sarah Raine, has been included in an edited collection, Metaphors of Internet - Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity, published by Peter Lang Press

In this chapter, co-written with Dr Sarah Raine, I look at how popular music consumers are making sense of online environments.

Volume 4, Issue 1 of Riffs! is now out. This issue is guest edited by Edmund Hunt (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) and is the first of two issues which consider the relationship between music and technology.

In this blog post, written with my fellow BLMP researchers Patrycja Rozbicka and Adam Behr, I explore what a return to live music in the city of Birmingham may look like, and consider the implications of venue capacity reductions that will be required by the easing of COVID19 restrictions.