Discussing the political economy of popular music history
Laura Solanilla in an article in Vol 3 of the International Journal of Intangible Cultural Heritage identifies heritage practice as a process of adding value to items. This description chimed with my...
Presentation at Home Of Metal: Heavy Metal and Place conference, Light House, Wolverhampton, 3rd September 2011 Documenting, interpreting and presenting intangible music cultures in public...
title is a reference to The Young Ones. Below is my introduction to the screening of the Black Sabbath film during the Home of Metal weekender on Friday 2nd September. The film that was shown was the Italian cut. Intro to Black Sabbath film NOW THAT’S! what I call a horror film Welcome to the Home of Metal screening of the film Black Sabbath. I’m going to try and introduce the film by telling you some stuff that you won’t find on the WikiPedia entries for the film or the band – you might find some of this on...
Some photos from my trip to the Experience Music Project in Seattle. The Nirvana exhibition Taking Punk to the Masses was fantatsic. The highlight for me was the tshirt Kurt Cobain was wearing around...
Collecting and Curating Popular MusicBritish LibraryTuesday 5th July 2011 I recently attended an event at the British Library organised as part of the dissemination process for an AHRC Beyond Text...
I have been invited to attend this event at The British Library on 5th July. I look forward to reporting back on it here. This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC...
A (terrible) photo taken at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 40 Years of Heavy Metal and Its Unique Birthplace exhibition. Had to alter it so the guitar is visible. Great to see so many people enjoying...
There's loads more to add to this. Things keep emerging. I could happily narrate the whole of the half hour trip from Aston Hall to the Barton's Arms with anecdotes of late 1950s and 1960s life on the...
The Business of Live MusicA conference to mark the completion of the AHRC funded project, The Promotion of Live Music in the UK.31st March 2011 “It was exactly the same as 1000 other rooms above pubs that I’ve been to during my life time.” The live music space as heritage object - Rob Horrocks (Birmingham City University)
I live in Birmingham UK where I am a popular music researcher in the Interactive Cultures team at Birmingham City University. I am interested in popular music heritage and work on the Home of Metal project preparing a major exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Summer 2011. I also manage an amazing band called Einstellung, enjoy spending time at my allotment and messing around with radio documentaries.
www.myspace.com/einstellung
www.interactivecultures.org
www.homeofmetal.com
My three posterous blogs give me an opportunity to publish some of the audio clips i enjoy recording/editing.
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