Outputs (6)

CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album (2024)
Thesis

In contemporary British media and culture, the representation of Muslim women is still narrow, stereotypical, one-dimensional, and crucially lacking in visibility. This thesis sits as the counterpart to the practice as research rap-visual album Corri... Read More about CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album.

The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music (2024)
Thesis

This thesis represents the first extended study of harmonic practices and their significance in electronic dance music. Focusing on analysis of recordings from the 1970s–1990s, it identifies three distinctive harmonic practices which help to define w... Read More about The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music.

California Dreamin': Popular Music and Place-Myths of California (2024)
Thesis

In this thesis I develop a concept of southern California place-myths based on themes from a selection of popular songs from the earliest phase of California statehood (c. 1849) through the first half of the 1970s, examining the role that music plays... Read More about California Dreamin': Popular Music and Place-Myths of California.

Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music: Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn (2023)
Journal Article

This article weaves together relational tendencies in recent scholarship spanning philosophy, mycology, psychopharmacology and timbre studies in order to argue that timbre's unbounded ontology and cyclical re-use across electronic dance music (EDM) h... Read More about Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music: Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn.

An Ecosemiotic Approach To The Analysis Of Timbre (2023)
Book Chapter

Music analysts dealing with timbre are confronted by manifold paradoxes, chief among them being that timbre is ‘both material and immaterial’ (van Elferen 2020, 135)—a tangible, physically felt imprint of a sound event as well as an ineffable psychoa... Read More about An Ecosemiotic Approach To The Analysis Of Timbre.

Chicago house music, from dance floor to museum: the Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection: The Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection at the Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago (2016)
Journal Article