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Manchester Centre for Music in Culture ('MC2')

 

 

MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR MUSIC IN CULTURE

Manchester Centre for Music in Culture (‘MC2’) is a lively research group that brings together interdisciplinary scholars based in the North West region of England (and beyond) with an interest in music and its relationship to culture.
Established in 2002, the group currently includes around thirty staff and postgraduates in the University of Manchester, matched by a comparable number of researchers from other regional universities and archives (including the Royal Northern College of Music, the University of Leeds, the University of Lancaster, Salford University, and Keele University, among others). Members represent a broad cross-section of disciplines: American Studies; Classics; Drama; Education; English; French; History; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Modern Languages; Music; Philosophy; Psychology; Religions and Theology; Social Anthropology; Sociology; and Womens' Studies.

Our goal is to foster cross-disciplinary and collaborative research across the humanities and behavioral sciences. We usually meet twice a year in spring and autumn to discuss ongoing research, share ideas and explore new territory. We also hold occasional in-depth workshops to follow up specific themes. New participants (especially postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers) are always welcome; so too are ideas for events.
Seminars take place during Music’s ‘Thursday Research Afternoons’, as part of the Musicology Forum series. Details about forthcoming seminars can be found at http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/music/research/
Further information can be gained from MC2’s steering committee: Dr Susan Rutherford (Music, Manchester) susan.rutherford@manchester.ac.uk, Dr Caroline Bithell (Music, Manchester) caroline.bithell@manchester.ac.uk, Dr Laura Tunbridge (Music, Manchester) laura.tunbridge@manchester.ac.uk, Dr Penelope Gouk (Honorary Research Fellow, History, Manchester) gouk@manchester.ac.uk, Professor Derek Scott derekbscott@gmail.com (Music, Leeds) and Dr Nicholas Gebhardt (American Studies, Lancaster) n.gebhardt@lancaster.ac.uk

 
 

MC2 ARCHIVE

Thursday 27th Oct 2011, 4.15 pm
Room G16, Martin Harris Centre
Music’s interaction with science and technology - Dr. Laura Tunbridge, Suzy Mangion and Dr. David Butler

  • Dr. Laura Tunbridge, ‘Listening Through the Hiss of History: Interpreting Recordings’
  • Suzy Mangion, ‘Biological Ballet: the Surreal Natural History Films of Jean Painlevé’
  • Dr. David Butler, ‘Murder by Multi-track: The Strange Case of Perry Botkin and Hollywood Film Music in 1958’

Wednesday 16th May, 4.00pm
Room G16, Martin Harris Centre
'Music and method'

Speakers will reflect on their approaches to a particular aspect of their work.

The speakers and their papers are as follows:

  • Rebecca Herissone (Music, University of Manchester) Investigating musical creativity in Restoration England
  • Martyn Evans (Medical Humanities, University of Durham) Medicine and music: three relations considered
  • Deniz Ertan (Music, University of Nottingham/Manchester) Bearing News, Born Music: Contemporary Approaches to American Art Music (1908-1927)
  • David Butler (Drama, University of Manchester) The Delian Mode: Delia Derbyshire's contribution to British electronic music in the 1960s and 1970s

Tuesday 9th May 2006, 2-3pm
 A Musical Response to Acts of Terrorism and Events of War


Dr Kevin Malone (University of Manchester)
 Dr Kevin Malone presents a lecture and demonstration about how his recent compositional research has been influenced by the events of Sept 11th 2001.

Bi-Annual Meetings

Wednesday 9 November 2005

'Music and War' (first of two MC2 workshops on this theme)

This meeting will be held in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Second floor, Simon Building on Brunswick Street). It will be preceded at 2.00 by a screening of the documentary 'Soundtrack to War' by George Gittoes followed by a recording of 'Wellington's Victory' by Beethoven.

  • Barry Cooper (Music, Manchester) '"Wellington's Victory": The Mother of all Battle Music?'
  • Constance Dee (Music, Manchester) 'Britain's celebrations of Red Army Day 1943 and 1944: the role of music in cultural propaganda'
  • Penelope Gouk (History, Manchester) 'Music and Medicine (1948): origins of the music therapy profession in the madness of war'

Wednesday 5 February 2003

'Manchester and Music in Culture'

Wednesday 21st May 2003

'Music and Identity'

Wednesday 5 November 2003

'Youth and Music'

  • Barry Cooper (Music, Manchester) 'Children's Masterworks'
  • Barbara Lebrun (French, Manchester) 'French youth and 'alternative' popular music'
  • Nicholas Gebhardt (American Studies, Lancaster) 'Facing the Music'
  • Rupa Huq (Education, Manchester) 'The Uses of Hip Hop Culture'

Wednesday 19 May 2004

'Music and Politics'

  • David Butler (Drama, Manchester), 'Music, Meaning and Metropolis'
  • Judith Khun (Music, Manchester) 'Shostakovitch and Jewish culture'
  • Kevin Malone (Music, Manchester) 'Composition and Politics'

Wednesday 3 November 2004

'Music and Sex'

  • Esperanza Miyake (Womens Studies, Lancaster) 'Vocal sexualities'
  • Sheila Whiteley (Music, Salford) 'Music and Striptease Culture' part 1
  • Derek Scott (Music, Salford) 'Music and Striptease Culture' part 2
  • Alison Surtees, Manchester Music District Archive presentation and discussion

Wednesday 4 May 2005

'Music and Spirituality'

  • Tom Dixon (History, Manchester) 'Musical models in 17th- century spiritual discourse'
  • Ian Jones (Religions and Theology, Manchester) 'Good music for worship? The Churches in England since 1945'
  • Terry Biddington (Chaplaincy, Manchester) 'Spirituality and music: listening to the divine'
  • Dean Needle (Music, Salford) 'Christian rock and the British music industry'

MC2 Symposia

Wednesday 20 October 2004

'Thinking With Music'

The focus of the first symposium was how musical concepts or practices are used as models or as frameworks to think about broader social questions. Speakers outlined their research and described how musical concepts or practices have enabled them to engage with key social questions. Each presentation was followed by respondents and general questions.

  • Barbara Lebrun (French, Manchester) Respondent: Pete Martin (Sociology, Manchester)
  • Mark Levine (Psychology, Lancaster) Respondent: Nicholas Gebhardt (American Studies, Lancaster)
  • Penelope Gouk (History, Manchester) Respondent: Derek Scott (Music, Salford)

 

 

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