http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/18067/
Dr Nicolas Bougaïeff, originally from Quebec, studied for his PhD at the University of Huddersfield with Prof Rupert Till. His thesis focused on minimal techno, and specifically the live performance methods from Richie Hawtin's 2010-2011 Plastikman tour (for which he designed the controllers). Based in Berlin, Nicolas’s music continues to explore a complex soundworld that draws on rave cultures and avant-garde creative techniques.
You can hear examples of his music on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/nicolasbougaieff
Personal website: https://www.tailored-communication.com/artists/nicolas-bougaieff
Lydia Hatton Baldwin (supervised by Dr Catherine Haworth): Interdisciplinary Modernism: Ezra Pound’s Le Testament de Villon and his approach to opera. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34863/
Lydia’s MA by Research undertook a critical examination of the interdisciplinary modernism as exemplified by the works of Ezra Pound. Pound’s involvement with the BBC was extremely important to his continued success, and Lydia’s research examined the poet’s creative relationships with the institution. She also analysed his use of form and media, using Pound’s first radio opera, Le Testament de Villon, as a case study, and with references to his second opera Cavalcanti.
Oliver Reavell (supervised by Dr Catherine Haworth) “The Buena Vista Phenomenon: Constructions of Cuban Musical Identity” http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/29100/
Oliver included fieldwork in Cuba as part of his research methodology. His final thesis considered the impact of the 1996 recording project, Buena Vista Social Club, on the global perception of Cuban identity. Oliver’s research explored the cultural formation of identity in Cuban music, which will apply the ideas of globalisation, transnationalism as well as critically engaging with concepts of nostalgia, political ideology and racial identity in music.
Dr Louise McInnes (supervised by Dr Lisa Colton) “‘The Social, Political and Historical Contexts of the Late Medieval Carol: 1360-1530” http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/23404
Louise’s research investigated the complex social and musical contexts for the early English carol, a genre that had been relatively neglected in musicological scholarship for several decades. Louise has since worked at the University of Sheffield, the University of Durham, and the University of Huddersfield, in research, teaching, and student support roles. Her research has been published in Early Music Performer and Identity Papers (http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/32593/), and her co-authored book chapter (with Lisa Colton) ‘High or Low? Medieval English Carols as Part of Vernacular Culture, 1380–1450’ is part of Katharine Jager ed., Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (New York: Palgrave, 2019).
Dr Alessandro Carrera (supervised by Prof Rupert Till): “The Philosophy of Popular Music: Aesthetical Categories and Cultural Relevance. A Commentary on My Publications.” http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28415/
Dr Carrera graduated from the PhD by Publication, which brought together two main strands of by which popular music has been shaped: the aesthetical categories developed in the fields of Euroclassical music and continental philosophy. He works at the University of Houston, Texas. https://www.uh.edu/class/mcl/faculty/carrera_a/
Dr Stephen Etheridge (supervised by Dr Lisa Colton & Prof Paul Ward): “'Slate-Grey Rain and Polished Euphoniums': Southern Pennine Brass Bands, the Working Class and the North, c. 1840-1914.” http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24607
Stephen’s thesis examined the musical and social context of brass banding in the southern Pennine region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His research demonstrated the central concerns of class, place, and masculinity in the brass band movement, and how this was demonstrated through the development, organisation, performance style, and repertoire of northern bands. The stability of notions of brass banding and northern identity has continued to be a feature of his research and publications, notably: “Southern Pennine Brass Bands and the Creation of Northern Identity, c. 1840–1914: Musical Constructions of Space, Place and Region” (Northern History, 2017); and “Music as a Lifelong Pursuit for Bandsmen in the Southern Pennines, ca.1840–1914: Reflections on Working Class Masculinity” in Catherine Haworth & Lisa Colton eds., Gender, Age and Musical Creativity (Ashgate, 2015).
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