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Chelsey Dykes

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Biography

Hello, I am a current PhD Musicology student at the University of Birmingham. Besides studying music, I spend my free time physically immersed in popular music culture by attending live performances and performing in bands playing electric guitar/bass. I also enjoy gaming and reading.  

Research interests

I am predominately interested in 20th-century popular music studies, cultural studies and critical/analytical theory. My previous research has been based on British/European/American events/artists such as:

  • Linking British Punk artist The Damned with the Frankfurt School and Bourdieu
  • Music festivals and online live-streaming platforms 
  • MA dissertation, which examined whether British popular music contributed to nuclear fear in the 1980s. 
  • Ongoing PhD thesis research which examines whether there is more between the relationship of Industrialisation, Standardisation and the Rise of 90s U.S. Industrial music including affect theory, Fordism/Taylorism and drawing from various philosophers such as Marx, Adorno, and Foucault. 

Qualifications

MA Musicology degree - University of Birmingham (awarded 2021)

BA Professional Musicianship (Guitar) degree - British & Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM University) (awarded 2019) 

Keywords

  • M Music
  • ML Literature of music

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