| Post: | Lecturer in Popular Music (Music) |
| Location: | Arts B B259 |
| Email: | R.Elliott@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7271 |
| UK: | (01273) 877271 |
| International: | +44 1273 877271 |
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Biography
Richard Elliott graduated from the University of Warwick in 1997 with a BA in Comparative American Studies. He completed his MA with the Open University, having turned his attention to the study of popular music. He moved to Newcastle where he completed a PhD investigating aspects of loss in popular music under the supervision of Prof. Richard Middleton and Dr. Ian Biddle at Newcastle University's International Centre for Music Studies. Richard is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). In addition to his academic work, he writes for the popular culture websites PopMatters and Tiny Mix Tapes. A selection of his music reviews can be found here and here.
Role
Lecturer in Popular Music
Richard’s primary research interests are in the roles played by loss, memory, nostalgia and revolution in popular music. His work in these areas is heavily influenced by theories of place and spatiality and in the ways in which music creates or evokes ‘memory places’ that take on significance for individuals and communities. In addition to Anglophone popular musics he works on Portuguese fado and Latin American nueva canción, reflecting interests developed during extensive periods based in Portugal and Chile. He is the author of the books Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City (Ashgate, 2010) and Nina Simone (forthcoming from Equinox in 2013). He has also published articles and reviews on a number of topics, including popular music, literature, consciousness, memory, nostalgia, place and space, affect, language and technology. Other areas of specialization include post-1950s popular music; African popular musics; North American country music and Americana; electronica; and the poetics of song. He has a background in a broad variety of disciplines – taking in American Studies, Cultural Studies and Music – and has taught courses on popular music, cultural and critical theory, urban musicology, music, memory and technology, and the politics of authenticity in pop.
| Undergraduate | |
| W3052 | Popular Music Cultures |
| W3054 / W3031 | The Rise of Classical Music |
| W3040 | Ensemble Performance |
| W3056 | Introduction to Music Studies |
| W3051 / W3061 | Dissertation: Historical and Contextual Studies |
| W3053 / W3060 | Dissertation: Analytical Approaches |
| Postgraduate | |
| MA Dissertation supervision | |
| PhD supervision in areas related to my research interests: popular musics of the world, music and technology, music and memory, cultural and critical theory, music and media, technoculture, space and place, urban musicology |
Student Consultation
Tuesdays 11.00-12.00. Bookable on Study Direct.
Wednesdays 11.00-12.00. Open (drop-in) consultations.
Elliott, Richard (2013) Nina Simone. Icons of pop music . Equinox Publishing, Sheffield. ISBN 9781845539887 (In Press)
Elliott, Richard (2013) So transported: Nina Simone, "my sweet lord" and the (un)folding of affect. In: Sound, music, affect: theorizing sonic experience. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 75-90. ISBN 9781441114679
Elliott, Richard (2011) Public consciousness, political conscience and memory in Latin American nueva canción. In: Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199553792
Elliott, Richard (2010) Fado and the place of longing : loss, memory and the city. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music . Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, UK. ISBN 978-0-7546-6795-7
Elliott, Richard (2009) The same distant places: Bob Dylan's poetics of place and displacement. Popular Music and Society, 32 (2). pp. 249-270. ISSN 0300-7766
Elliott, Richard (2008) Popular music and/as event: subjectivity, love and fidelity in the aftermath of rock 'n' roll. Radical Musicology, 3. ISSN 1751-7788