July 12th, 2009 |
by Andrew Dubber
Published in
Creative & Cultural Industries, Music as Culture, Public Event
I attended an event in Copenhagen back in March this year. It was organised by Jazz Danmark, a government funded body whose role it is to promote and foster Danish jazz. My keynote was about how musicians could use the opportunities of the internet, and it seemed to go down reasonably well.
July 12th, 2009 |
by Andrew Dubber
Published in
Music as Culture
Representatives from the Interactive Cultures team are at IASPM in Liverpool on the week of the 13th to the 17th of July. If you’re going to be there too, please find us and track us down. We’ll be around most of the week, so there’s a good chance you’ll meet Tim, Jez, Dubber (that’s me), Simon and Paul.
And there’s something in particular we want to talk about.
July 4th, 2009 |
by Andrew Dubber
Published in
Music as Culture, Public Event
Steve, Amran, Abi, Stef & Caro in a church hall in Salford
This is the audio recording of the panel session I chaired at Un-Convention in Manchester last month. It was about music that falls outside the indie rock band tradition you’d normally expect represented at these sorts of events. I wanted to know if there were any lessons that could be drawn from outside the margins.
Some really amazing and insightful stuff from Stef Lewandowski, Steve Lawson, Amran Ellahi, Abigail Seabrook, and Caroline Churchill.
You can listen to all of the panel sessions at the Un-Convention Soundcloud page.
June 26th, 2009 |
by Jez Collins
Published in
AHRC KTF, Music as Culture
Many thanks to Jon Bounds for recording and then uploading the video.
June 16th, 2009 |
by Jon Hickman
Published in
AHRC KTF, Events, Music as Culture
Nick Webber, Jez Collins, Andrew Dubber, talk music as culture at Un-Convention Salford
We recently attended Un-Convention Salford 2009. Organised by AHRC KTF partner Fat Northener, Un-convention is a not for profit grassroots led music conference for DIY and Independent music makers and companies. Born in 2008 as an alternative to Manchester’s mainstream In The City event, it has already inspired Un-Conventions in Belfast and Swansea and future events in Glasgow, London, Barcelona and Reykjavík. This year’s UK national event in Salford featured a range of key musicians, bands and industry personnel.
May 18th, 2009 |
by Andrew Dubber
Published in
Music as Culture
I’m writing a book called Deleting Music. It’s about the music industries and intellectual property in the digital age.
April 30th, 2009 |
by Jez Collins
Published in
Music as Culture
Recently an organisation called Featured Artists Coalition was formed to give a lobbying voice to performing artists wishing to protect and advance their rights in the music industries. We find this a positive, admirable and understandable move for musicians.
We believe that most musicians create primarily for artistic and cultural reasons, and that while the commercial benefits are critically important (and we do understand the imperative for music to create economic reward), this is not the purpose of music. Moreover, music as culture is not represented at any policy level and so important decisions are being made without consideration for the cultural aspect of music itself. Read the rest of this entry »