I’m in Huddersfield!
This is, for the first time, a mashup of four popular music research conferences, all hosted here at the University of Huddersfield. These are:
- Art of Record Production (at Berklee in 2019 – submit abstracts now!)
- International Society for Metal Music Studies
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music (UK & Ireland branch)
- Dancecult – Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
My own solo presentation is about sample detection in methods for plagiarism copyright disputes – more to follow on this when I get it written up, or failing that an abstract and some links. [Read more…]
Dr Brandoff opens with two vignettes; one where he describes a time of personal social frustration where he wanted to punch a wall (but played some classical piano instead – he demos it live!). His second example is a patient case (see slide).
Matthew opens with a discussion of the role of curriculum in popular music education, noting that the skills musicians gain in Higher Ed are arguably much more important than the qualification. Like the industry, he says, we must be ruthless in prioritizing meaningful musical career skills, rather than focusing on those elements that are the easiest to teach, or have heavily established pedagogies. 
