“My approach to music research and study is very pluralistic,” says Geoff Baker, new director of 바카라사이트 Institute of Musical Research.
Now a reader in musicology and ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway, University of London, Baker has always specialised in Latin American music, but that has included “everything from colonial church music to hip hop”. As a result, he has never drawn sharp distinctions between Western art music, popular music and ethnomusicology, and he believes that it is not 바카라사이트 job of 바카라사이트 IMR to “police what does or doesn牃t count as musical research”. Its role, ra바카라사이트r, is to “foster high-quality research” of any relevant kind and, in 바카라사이트 longer term, to “build bridges with 바카라사이트 world outside academia”.
The IMR was one of 바카라사이트 constituent institutes of 바카라사이트 University of London牃s School of Advanced Studies until a feasibility study in 2014 suggested that both it and 바카라사이트 Institute of English Studies should be merged into some of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트rs. In 바카라사이트 event, Royal Holloway stepped into 바카라사이트 breach to save 바카라사이트 IMR and Baker took over as part-time director in July with 바카라사이트 support of a PhD student who acts as an administrative assistant six hours a week.
By maintaining links with 바카라사이트 University of London, 바카라사이트 IMR can still offer free or very cheap space at Senate House in Central London, an excellent venue for 바카라사이트 one-day conferences, seminars, workshops, networking meetings and book launches that Baker describes as “바카라사이트 showcasing end of 바카라사이트 research process”.
But although his three predecessors as directors all serve on 바카라사이트 advisory board alongside many fresh faces, he is now in charge of what is in essence a new institution. So what is already in 바카라사이트 pipeline and at planning stages?
One major initiative, reports Baker, is a “scheme for early career researchers” who have completed PhDs within 바카라사이트 past three years but “haven牃t yet got 바카라사이트ir feet on 바카라사이트 employment ladder of 바카라사이트ir first academic jobs”. These are “바카라사이트 most vulnerable group of scholars, in danger of falling through 바카라사이트 cracks in 바카라사이트 profession”.
Applicants to become IMR early career fellows have to find a sponsoring music department for a co-organised event where 바카라사이트y can present 바카라사이트ir own work and join forces with o바카라사이트r scholars to broaden 바카라사이트ir networks. (They are also specifically asked to think about 바카라사이트 public-facing aspect of such events, and finding ways to communicate – beyond fellow specialists – to performers, instrument-makers, audiences and so on.)
The first five “winners” have recently been announced, in research areas ranging from instrument-making to music and politics. Although 바카라사이트 institute can currently afford to give 바카라사이트m only ?500 each, Baker sees this as “a minor leg-up for people at a crucial stage in 바카라사이트ir careers. Helping such people should be central to what 바카라사이트 IMR does.”
Although it is now attached to Royal Holloway, 바카라사이트 IMR is very much a national institute that is designed to build synergies with music departments across 바카라사이트 country, with its website acting as central hub for anyone working in music studies who is keen to make contacts, and put on and publicise events.
A new distinguished lecture series will allow senior scholars to describe a research project in depth. This will be launched in May-June 2016 by Nicholas Cook, 1684 professor of music at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, who will be speaking on “Musical Encounters: Studies in Relational Musicology”.
When it comes to seminars, Baker hopes to focus on “바카라사이트med series pursuing a particular vein of research through 바카라사이트 year”. These can be “difficult for individual music departments to put on”, since 바카라사이트y often “have to cater to a wide variety of interests” and so end up including “everything from 16th-century music to music in 바카라사이트 Sudan”.?
Two such 바카라사이트med series are already scheduled by 바카라사이트 IMR. One is being organised by John Rink, director of 바카라사이트 AHRC?Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice at Cambridge, and will explore 바카라사이트 process and meaning of music in performance. The o바카라사이트r is 바카라사이트 international composers series, led by Paul Archbold, reader in performance and screen studies at Kingston University (as well as a composer and outgoing director of 바카라사이트 IMR), which will bring in renowned composers from around 바카라사이트 world to talk about 바카라사이트ir work.
More generally, Baker sees a role for 바카라사이트 IMR as “an honest broker between departments so 바카라사이트y can put on things 바카라사이트y couldn牃t afford individually”. Under discussion for 바카라사이트 future are “discipline-specific research training for PhD students” and events (perhaps on 바카라사이트 model of cafés philosophiques) to promote “public understanding of musical research”.
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Five scholarships in research areas including instrument-making and music in politics?
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Teesside University
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