Dear Jazz Research Network
Apologies for any cross-postings.
I am delighted to announce that the University of Salford is set receive just under €1 million to lead a three-year European project entitled Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities. The ground-breaking project, the first and largest of its kind for jazz in Europe, has been funded as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area’s (HERA) theme ‘Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity’, a joint research programme funded by 13 national funding agencies to ‘create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe’.
Selected as one of 19 successful projects from 234 initial applications, Rhythm Changes will involve a team of 13 researchers working across 5 countries. As Project Leader, I will be working closely with colleagues from the Universities of Amsterdam, Birmingham City, Copenhagen, Graz, Lancaster and Stavanger, as well as Professor George McKay from the school of Media, Music and Performance here in Salford. The project also includes funds for two fully-funded PhD studentships, one in Salford and one in Amsterdam. Rhythm Changes is the most significant research grant ever awarded to a UK university for a jazz-related project and is the first trans-national programme for jazz studies ever funded at this level.
As an interdisciplinary research project, Rhythm Changes will develop new insights into cultural exchanges and dynamics between different countries, groups and related media, examining the inherited traditions and practices of European jazz cultures, comparing national jazz scenes including histories, current jazz infrastructures (festivals, venues, education programmes etc.) and cultural policies, and will also include a performance and education programme.
Details of the Salford-based PhD studentship will follow shortly. If you would like to know more about the project, do get in contact.
Tony
Dr Tony Whyton
Reader in Music
School of Media, Music and Performance
University of Salford
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