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Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Neylon, C. (2015, November). More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day. Presented at Sibeal, Limerick, Ireland

Due to the historical, and continued, invisibility of women in ‘typically’ male positions and careers, today’s girls and young women are offered few visible female role models to aspire to and this may have a strong impact on their choice of careers... Read More about More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rouverol, A. (2015). Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance. In R. Perks, & A. Thomson (Eds.), The oral history reader (636-655). London: Routledge

In this essay, Alicia Rouverol assesses an oral history performance event based on life review interviews in a US prison. She explores how life review helped inmates to make new sense of their lives, the challenges of sharing authority in a prison se... Read More about Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania (2015)
Book Chapter
Chiva, C. (2015). Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania. In B. Rasch, S. Martin, & J. Cheibub (Eds.), Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (197-216). Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter examines the process of government formation in post-communist Romania by seeking to explain the combination of a high incidence of minority cabinets, on the one hand, and the strong investiture rules characteristic of positive parliament... Read More about Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania.

The Alpine-themed song (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wise, T. (2015, October). The Alpine-themed song. Presented at The European Salon : Nineteenth Century Salonmusik, Maynooth, Ireland

My paper discusses a staple of the salon, the Alpine-themed song, which emerged in the early nineteenth century. Typically based on picturesque lyric imagery and Ländler rhythms, this barely remembered repertoire was dismissed as trivial music by pro... Read More about The Alpine-themed song.

Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, September). Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music. Presented at Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Annual Conference, University of Worcester

In response to the working group call this year, I am sharing developments in a current strand of research, aspects of which were presented as part of the interim event in April. Here, I explored music as a ‘memorative sign’ (Rousseau in Boym 2001: 4... Read More about Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music.

The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants (2015)
Thesis
Howley, G. (in press). The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants. (Thesis). University of Salford

This dissertation reports the results of an ethnographically informed, variationist sociophonetic account of the acquisition of vernacular English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first st... Read More about The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants.

Driven voids (2015)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2015). Driven voids. [Score]

A work for Mezzo-soprano, harp, violin and multi-channel live electronics. The texts set in the work are taken from ideas on architecture - in particular duration and place - from Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Steve Holl and Johnny Rodger. All of whom... Read More about Driven voids.

History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives (2015)
Book Chapter
Smith, A. (2015). History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives. In R. Pearson, W. Uricchio, & W. Brooker (Eds.), Many More Lives of the Batman. Bloomsbury

While scholars have demonstrated how the US comic-book marketplace in the 1980s/1990s laid conditions for certain narrative techniques in superhero comics (Pearson and Uricchio, 91; Putz, 99; Wright, 01), this article shows how subsequent industrial... Read More about History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives.

Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath (2015)
Book Chapter
Searle, D. (2015). Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath. In D. Searle (Ed.), Genesis, employment, aftermath: First World War tanks and the new warfare, 1900-1945 (1-12). Solihull: Helion

Archive games (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Carson, J., & Miller, R. Archive games. [Exhibition]. 11 July 2015 - 25 October 2015. (Unpublished)

The central tenet of Archive Games is to explore the archive of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) through the Surrealist understanding of logic and chance, and through the use of our established practice of game-playing.

In order... Read More about Archive games.