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Research, public debate and online music

January 8th, 2010  |  by Andrew Dubber
Published in Public Event

Nick Webber’s MeCCSA 2010 conference presentation at the London School of Economics, regarding the effect and veracity of existing research on the public debate around digital music consumption.

Creating British Jazz Archives

January 8th, 2010  |  by Andrew Dubber
Published in Public Event

Tim and Simon’s presentation at the 2010 MeCCSA Conference.

International Conference for Prison Health Protection

November 5th, 2009  |  by Matt Grimes
Published in AHRC KTF, Public Event, Radio

I was recently invited by the United Nations and World Health Organisation to attend their annual international conference to discuss the use of radio in prisons as a way to engage with hard to reach prisoners. I, Morag McDonald (from CRQ at BCU), Phil Maguire (from the Prison Radio Association-one of our KTF partners) and Andrew Wilkie (from the National Prison Radio Authority) presented a one hour workshop on the benefits of using prison radio as a tool for health promotion and education within prisons. Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz Festivals Online

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.

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Outside the Box

July 4th, 2009  |  by Andrew Dubber
Published in Music as Culture, Public Event

Outside the Box panel
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.