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2023-05-0247 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Pop Culture.Emily McConkey is a graduate student in English at the University of Ottawa. Over the last two years, she has served as the student researcher for the Christina Rossetti in Music digital archive and runs the archive’s Twitter account @CGRossettiMusic. Her research interests have always had an interdisciplinary focus. Her MA thesis explores the figure of Medusa in Victorian women’s art and poetry, and she is more broadly interested in Ovidian reception in the Victorian and Modernist eras. She is also a research volunteer in the Library and Archives at the National Gallery of Canada. Emily...
2020-12-131h 10What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?I've Got A Babe, but Shall I Keep Him: Rhiannon Giddens and Modernist Nightmares of History.Kevin Farrell is Associate Professor of English at Radford University, where he teaches courses in both composition and literature. His research interests include popular music, modernism, postmodernism, and Irish literature, particularly the fiction of James Joyce. His work has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and New Hibernia Review.This study explores the political rhetoric of Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, contextualizing Giddens’ narratives of subaltern American experience in reference to high modernist conceptions of history. Released in 2017, Freedom Highway presents a portrait of American history, drawing conscious connections between various modes of w...
2020-11-291h 02What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Get Up and Go: DC Music, Youth Culture, and Community Formation, 1980-1983.Alan Parkes is a PhD student in US history at the University of Delaware. He studies the impact of neo-liberalization on late-twentieth-century youth cultures. He is a member of California’s hardcore punk band Empty Eyes. In the early 1980s, Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, two young Washington DC punks, heard a song that, as Rollins recalls, “was so good that we pulled over just so we could listen to it without having to deal with traffic.” They waited to hear the radio DJ announce the song title after it ended. Rollins remembers, “the lady said that was ‘‘Pu...
2020-11-1559 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Después de mis Nueve Noches: Bullerengue Song as Historical Evidence of the 1940s Maroon Caribbean in Colombia.Manuel Garcia Orozco is a GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY®-award winner who has dedicated his career to producing musical documents that preserve cultures in resistance under his label Chaco World Music. As a composer/performer, he has been featured in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Cannes Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Blue Note, and major TV networks such as Sony Entertainment and MTV. He is the author of two books and a digital educational platform for Afro-Colombian music. He has been granted various international awards by The Recording Academy, Latin GRAMMY® Foundation, ASCAP, and The Colombian Ministry of Culture. Currently pur...
2020-11-011h 20What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?This One Tape Had All These Memories: Pop Music, Mixtapes and Young-Adult Fiction.Dr Ben Screech is a Lecturer in English and Education at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, UK. His research specializes primarily on YA fiction, as well as pop culture for young people more generally. Prior to his current role, Ben worked as a teacher and latterly, a community support liaison worker for young people with special needs and disabilities. Ben’s Recent publications include: ‘An Interview with Hayley Long’ (VOYA, 2019), ‘Unsilencing the Child’ (PRACTICE, 2019) and ‘Mental Health in YA Literature’ (Paper Lanterns, 2020).‘Sex and drugs and rock and roll’, the British pop musician Ian Dury famously proclaimed, ‘is al...
2020-10-181h 08What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Same Old Thing: The Streets and The Importance of the EverydayGlenn Fosbraey is the Head of English, Creative Writing, and American Studies at The University of Winchester where he specialises in the academic study of song lyrics. His publications include the book Writing Song Lyrics: Creative and Critical approaches (Palgrave MacMillan 2019), chapters 'Manipulation and truth in The Final Cut' in Pink Floyd. A Multi-disciplinary Understanding of a Global Music Brand. (Routledge 2020) and ‘I’m (not) your man’ 'Songs of Leonard Cohen', as well as the upcoming edited collection Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music (Palgrave Macmillan) due later this year.Glenn expresses that when The Ki...
2020-10-0445 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Hits for HIIT!Dr. Sophie Stévance (PhD) and Dr. Serge Lacasse (PhD) are full professors of musicology at Laval University (Quebec City). Dr. Stévance is an athlete, opera singer and violist who has practised professionally. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Research-Creation in Music. Dr. Lacasse is a national archery champion, music composer, director and producer. As researchers, both are interested in popular music and the relationships between music and sport.Sophie & Serge have teamed together for their project “Hits for HIIT”. This project offers free music specifically designed for High-intensity interval training (HIIT). Current research on the...
2020-09-201h 02What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Thoughts on Traditional Music, Performance and Arrangement in Rural Communities.With a wealth of knowledge in playing and teaching traditional accordion music, Karen Tweed shares her experience and thoughts on traditional music and it's performance and arrangement in rural communities. Karen Tweed started to play the piano accordion at the age of 11 under the guidance of Joe Coll, who came to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire to teach the accordion and also recruit players for his accordion band which was based in Corby. She went on to study with Lawry Eady, Warren Eagle and finally with button accordionist John Whelan who was her biggest inspiration and fired her passion for I...
2020-09-0645 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?A Soundscape Theory of Donkey Kong — A Musical Framework of Beeps.Barnabas Smith is an Australian musician, teacher, and independent researcher. He holds a PhD from the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, with a thesis focusing on the construction and application of a research model to study the music of contemporary open-world video games. A recipient of the Naomi Cumming Prize, Barnabas is also the founder and President of the Ludomusicology Society of Australia.  In his paper, Barnabas expresses that the Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 1982) omits the former’s bass ostinato, Dragnet theme excerpt, and melodically-driven action music that can be foun...
2020-08-091h 05What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?The Search For The BluesDiego Pani is the manager of the musical patrimony of the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico (ISRE) and a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research focuses on the dynamics of music performance of young generations of musicians in reference to the use of media as a learning device, as well as the construction of social meaning via audio and audiovisual materials in the vernacular traditions and popular music scenes of Sardinia island, Italy. Additionally, he is engaged in the production of documentary films, web documentaries, and photo reportages. The Search’ whi...
2020-07-261h 06What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Why “Political”?: Blackness and Queer Urban Geographies in Toronto and San Diego.Dr. Sadie Hochman-Ruiz holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Music’s Integrative Studies program. Her dissertation, “The Social Politics of Queer Drag: A Study of San Diego’s Queer Community and Queercore Subculture,” foregrounds an intersectional approach to womanhood, addressing homeland narratives and diasporic identities within a multiracial drag scene. Researching the project, she performed as the drag queen Sadie Pins and engaged creative research methods such as performance ethnography, public humanities and research justice. Her current research focuses on trans studies and transnational queer communities.In her article, "Why Poli...
2020-07-121h 25What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Electro Swing's Place in Today's Popular Music Landscape.Dr Chris Inglis talks about electro swing, an increasingly prominent genre which fuses the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Largely overlooked throughout the academic world so far, this research examines the genre’s place in today's popular music landscape, asking key questions about what the rise of this style may tell us about contemporary popular music, and society at large.Support the show
2020-06-2855 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?The Irish Folk Music Revival - Culture, History and Perspective.Brendan Lamb is a musicology PhD candidate at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania. Brendan notes in his thesis that the numerous folk music revivals of the twentieth century have been key turning points in popular music, grassroots phenomena that paradoxically drove the industry they often strove to defy. Whilst the North American and English folk revivals were highly popular and influential movements, neither had quite the impact on revitalising culture as the Irish folk music revival in Ireland. Performers such as The Dubliners, The Chieftains, Planxty and The Bothy Band combined old and new, foreign...
2020-06-0755 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?ORKNEY SUMMER SESSIONS: Part One.... with Laurence Tait, Tina Paterson,  Louise Bichan, Ivan Drever, and Ingirid Jolly.What, Like It’s Hard? presents the special four-part series, Orkney Sessions. The Orkney Islands is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland that is rich with musical heritage. Each episode features a collection of Orcadian musicians who are from Orkney, some still here and others away, but undoubtedly Orkney has played a huge part, be it through influence, inspiration or community, for everyone.  After each interview, there’s a track from each musician, so take this opportunity to listen to mus...
2020-05-281h 36What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?“We Gon’ Be Alright": Racial Politics and Kendrick Lamar.Dilshan Weerasinghe holds an MA in Musicology from Dalhousie University. His research examines popular music, jazz, and hip-hop in relation to social and political topics. Dilshan’s paper “We Gon’ Be Alright”: Racial Politics and Kendrick Lamar explores the expression of the experience of poverty, anti-establishment politics, and the diverse, complex narratives of black identity in Kendrick  Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Such topics are typically associated with what has been labelled as “conscious” rap – characterized not just by its lyrical subject matter of socially relevant topics, but musically through jazz. As Dilshan suggests, historically, jazz in rap has been a...
2020-05-2452 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Come Together, Right Now.Sean Steele is a PhD Candidate in the Humanities at York University (Toronto). He holds a diploma in music from Vancouver Island University, a BA in Philosophy and History from Concordia University, and an MA in the Humanities from York. Sean explores intersections between music, religion and popular culture, with a focus on popular music subcultures as alternative spiritual communities.Through interview material and personal reflection, Sean investigates the extent to which Come Together can be viewed as a site of sacred-secular sonic space. Drawing on Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas, Mikhail Bahktin on festivals...
2020-05-101h 06What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Between the Buried and Me.Calder Hannan from Columbia University in New York City shares his research on progressive metal and topic theory. ⁠⁠Hannan examines the ways of hearing genre borrowing in the music of the influential American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. This paper takes topic theory as a starting point, arguing that far from being an esoteric music theory tool useful only for expanding listening to the music of Mozart and his contemporaries, it reflects a mode of listening to Between the Buried and Me that is very common and accessible.⁠Support the show
2020-04-261h 07What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Sounds of Quarantine.Welcome back for Season 2 of WLIH! Dr James Deaville from Carleton University (Ontario, Canada) discusses some of his ideas based around the concept of the sound of quarantine based around the nature of lockdown and media coverage of life-altering circumstances like covid-19. For listeners who aren’t familiar with Dr Deaville’s work, he is a Musicologist specializing in music, composers and musical practices and institutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, having published and spoken about such diverse topics as Franz Liszt, music criticism, television news music, African-American entertainers in turn-of-the-century Vienna and “fascist” Nordic composers during th...
2020-04-1253 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Good Old Bad Boys.Dr Theodore Trost's paper "When You're In Trouble I Just Turn Away":  The American Way and Randy Newman's Good Old Boys (1974) discusses the satire in Newman's songwriting while talking about satire in the 21st century. Support the show
2019-12-021h 11What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Walk It Like Donna Talks It.Donna is the founder of Bruce Funds, an initiative that helps Springsteen fans get tickets to live performances, and she talks about the global Springsteen community and the importance of giving. Support the show
2019-11-2545 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Growing Old In The Promised Land.Dr Michael Kobre from Queens University of Charlotte talks about the theme of time in Springtseen's music and how this is reflected in his performance of The Promised Land on the 1996 Tom Joad tour. Support the show
2019-11-1856 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Blacked Out in Brantford.Founder of Blackout Fest, Jamie Mittendorf, talks about the origins of the festival and the metal/punk community. Jamie started Blackout when he was just 15, and for this episode he runs over the highlights of the past 13 years, as well as what it's like to organise an event like this in the Brantford (Ontario, Canada) punk/metal scene.Support the show
2019-11-1133 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?The Adapt or Die Episode.Grad school is an 'adapt or die' situation, apparently, and this (adapting) is what we're doing for this episode. The complete interview with Dr. James Carter, from Drew University, failed in download, and as such we're veering away from the usual conference-style of the previous keynote episodes. Listen to a quick introduction to Dr. Carter's paper "Campus Rock: Rock Music Culture on the College Campus during the Counterculture Sixties, 1967-1968." before an abrupt stop, where Kirstin reads some extracts from the paper that details the story of Drew University within the development of Rock Music Culture. Support t...
2019-11-0450 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?The Boats That Rocked: Return of the Pirates of the Airwaves.The 2nd episode of the Freshman series looks at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association's annual conference. Host, Kirstin, reads her own paper that she presented at the 49th PCA/ACA conference in Washington D.C in April. “The Boats That Rocked: Return of the Pirates of the Airwaves" looks into the irony of the Radio Caroline 'pirates' creating BBC Radio 1. Support the show
2019-10-2824 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?This Is Etta Moten, Saying, Stay Well.Dr. Katherine Karlin of Kansas State University gives us a look into her research on Etta Moten's radio show 'I Remember When', on WAMQ Chicago. Etta Moten was an American actress and contralto vocalist who created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen. After her performing career, Moten was active in Chicago as a major philanthropist and civic activist, raising funds for and supporting cultural, social and church institutions.Support the show
2019-10-211h 00What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?The One With The Banjo.The Freshman series opens with a podcast episode featuring Shane Mulchrone who talks about growing up in Ireland playing music, and moving overseas to Canada to play some more.⠀⠀Shane Mulchrone hails from near Ballina, in county Mayo. He has been playing the banjo for over 20 years and he cites John Carty and Tommy Finn as early influences on his music. In addition, Shane’s music has also been shaped by local musicians in Mayo and Sligo. Shane has taught at numerous summer schools and workshops nationally, and internationally, and he plays regularly at sessions and festivals around...
2019-10-1455 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?An Unmitigated Disaster!Dr. Ken Womack of Monmouth University reads us the introduction of his new book "Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles" (out October 15th 2019!) before we talk about all things Fab Four in the iconic Abbey Road Studio.Support the show
2019-10-071h 08What, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Is There Space For Popular Music Practice in Research Universities?Dr. Brent Lee starts off the keynote series with some thoughts on the intersections between popular music and academia. Support the show
2019-09-1957 minWhat, Like It\'s Hard?
What, Like It's Hard?Welcome to WLIH!What... Like I Have To Listen To The Intro First? Yes, actually, you should!Support the show
2019-09-1909 min