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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral
Studentship on ‘The Decca Record Company of the 1960s and 1970s: the legacy
of Christopher Raeburn’
The Music Department at the University of Sheffield and the British Library
are pleased to announce a three-year PhD Studentship under the AHRC
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Scheme, to commence 1 October
2014. The successful applicant will receive full funding (tuition fees;
maintenance payment of £15,863 for 2014/15, increasing annually), plus
associated expenses (£550 yearly maintenance payment from AHRC; up to
£1,000 per annum from the British Library to cover travel and related
costs).
The subject of this studentship will be the Christopher Raeburn papers,
recently acquired by the British Library. Christopher Raeburn pursued a
lengthy career as a record producer, initially with the Decca Record
Company, working globally as a member of the Decca production team with
conductors and orchestras of the highest calibre, and then as a freelance
producer, in which capacity he masterminded the careers of several of the
finest of today’s musicians. The archive of his papers held by the British
Library covers the whole of his career and is extremely detailed, enabling
a large range of subjects to be considered for primary research by
candidates.
Applicants for this studentship are welcome to shape the precise proposal
according to their own interests, skills and initiative. Points of enquiry
may include amongst much else: the professional career of Christopher
Raeburn the role of the classical music producer at Decca, taking into
account the classical music production team of which he was a member from
the late 1950s onwards, under firstly John Culshaw and then Ray Minshull a
history of Decca in the post-War period and its significance in the
development of the international classical music recording industry. This
Partnership offers a collaborative supervisory team that brings together
Sheffield University’s Dr Dominic McHugh and Dr David Patmore, both of the
University’s Department of Music, and, from the British Library, Dr Nicolas
Bell, the Curator of Music Collections and Jonathan Summers, the Curator of
the Classical Music Sound Archive. This will be the third collaborative
partnership in the field of the history of the recording industry between
the British Library and the University of Sheffield.
The successful candidate will profit from the academic and practical
resources of both partner institutions, becoming a full participant in the
vibrant research community at the University of Sheffield while also having
the opportunity to gain first hand professional experience of curatorial
work at the British Library in London, including cataloguing, digitization,
conservation and exhibitions work. The student will be allocated office
space in the British Library and will be able to access the British
Library’s Sound Archive, as well as its extensive collection of printed
materials including books, journals and magazines relevant to the subject.
In addition they will be able to participate in the Library's rich
programme of public events, study days and student seminars and to
disseminate research findings to academic and non-academic audiences. The
student will be expected to contribute to the re-cataloguing of the Raeburn
papers, on the basis of 60 days per year for three years, work which in the
past has proved to be invaluable in gaining deep and relevant archival
knowledge. In the longer term, the blend of academic research and
curatorial work should considerably enhance employment-related skills while
simultaneously informing the project with great potential for knowledge
exchange and public impact.
The deadline for receipt of applications (including two references) is 31
March 2014. For further information, and details of how to apply, see:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/prospective_pg/ahrcstudentship
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Nicolas Bell
Curator, Music Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel (0)20 7412 7510
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