As part of Making Connections at the Old Waiting Room – Peckham Rye Station. Lost Text/Found Space are developing a new production of Noel Coward’s Still Lives. This site specific performance, directed by Rebecca McCutcheon will include new music and arrangements by Lucy Harrison. The music will recontextualise Noel Coward’s songs within the text. Lost […]
Dr Chris Christodoulou presents ‘Speed Limits: Accelerationism, Popular Futurism and the Decline of Jungle Drum and Bass’ at Dance Cult 23. The parallel development in the 1990s of jungle drum and bass as one of the most recognisable electronic dance music (EDM) genres to emphasise speed as a core experience, and the accelerationist movement, whose exponents, such […]
Chris Christodoulou will present the paper ‘Rumble in the Jungle: Space, Place, and Uncanny Bass’ at the Low Theories Conference 2023 on Saturday 20th May, 11.30am. Low End Theories: Bass Culture, Sound Systems, & Popular Music is a free online academic conference responding to recent developments in the study of bass culture, sound systems, and popular […]
An extensive new fashion exhibition dedicated to workwear has opened at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam featuring several rare garments from the Westminster Menswear Archive. The Westminster Menswear Archive’s non-hierarchical collecting policy means we have an extensive range of workwear in our collection as well as designer versions that have been inspired by those creations. […]
Tartan at the V&A Dundee celebrates the global story of a unique pattern – how the rules of the grid have inspired creativity from the everyday to the sublime. The instantly recognisable symbol of Scotland, a global textile of tradition, rebellion, oppression and fashion, tartan has connected and divided communities worldwide, inspiring great works of […]
Julia Toppin’s essay ”Jungle – A Critical Intersectional History’ (2023) is published in Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century (Liverpool University Press, 2023), edited by Monique Charles with Mary Gani. Since the turn of the 21st century, there have been several genres birthed from or nurtured in Black Britain: funky & tribal House, […]
Just over twenty years since Brian Belle-Fortune published All Crew Muss Big Up: Journeys Through Jungle Drum & Bass Culture (Deptford Forum Publishing, 1999), drum & bass music remains as vibrant as ever and despite recurring claims over that period about the genre’s demise. Yet, the drum & bass scene and industry has changed in numerous ways […]
Michael Goddard will present the paper “Sidereal Sound, ‘Time Machines’ and ‘Baby Food’: The Recursive Turn in Coil’s Music from the 1990s”, at the Recursions: Music and Cybernetics conference in Edinburgh, 24-25th October, 2019. About Recursions: Music and Cybernetics conference: Cybernetic thinking, engineering and pedagogy left indelible marks on the progressive arts and sciences of the late twentieth […]
Bringing Britain’s now established Black History Month to Paris, this event is part of a series developed with Professor Martin Evans (University of Sussex) who is currently the lead British expert in the French Migration Museum’s major exhibition Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962-1989) at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and Dr Mélanie Torrent (Amiens University) […]