Swinford Museum Exhibition 2019: The Music and Musicians of Filkins and Broughton Poggs

In 2018 I volunteered to research and curate an exhibition about music and musicians for my local community museum in Continue reading →

Forthcoming chapter in french edition

What a wonderful surprise to find an email asking for an author biography in relation to a chapter which I Continue reading →

Join us at Oxford’s 2018 IF Festival

Come and join myself and Dr Jan Butler at Oxford’s IF Festival on Friday 19th October 7-8.30pm at the Wig Continue reading →

On the ‘rights’ track

I really enjoyed delivering my paper titled ‘On the rights track: song life stories, rights migrations and the priceless ‘original” Continue reading →

Crosstown Traffic: Panel session 3rd Sept ’18

Here’s a summary of the panel session which I’m delivering with my esteemed colleagues from the Music Dept. at Oxford Continue reading →

Thanks for visiting!

A big thank you to everyone who visited this website in 2014!  My 2014 annual stats report shows that this Continue reading →

Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2014). Now in print!

It was a wonderful surprise to unwrap my personal hardcopy of this new Ashgate title which arrived in the post Continue reading →

‘Speaking of Value?’ Forthcoming Conference Paper Abstract

I am delighted to announce that I have another conference paper scheduled for next year, this time to be presented at the Continue reading →