30 July 2019
Christopher Wiley
Educational Research, Publication, Research, Research Supervision
ACT journal, arts, autobiography, autoethnography, Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, creative art, creative arts, creative writing, education, ethnodrama, Higher Education, MayDay Group, Music, music studies, Peter Gouzouasis, research, research supervision, Surrey, teaching, University, University of Surrey
Dr Christopher Wiley ha
s published an article in a special issue of Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education (the refereed journal of the MayDay Group) on autoethnography and related methodologies, guest-edited by Peter Gouzouasis.
Entitled ‘Autoethnography, Autobiography, and Creative Art as Academic Research in Music Studies: A Fugal Ethnodrama’, the article is written creatively as an imagined dialogue between Dr Wiley and two fictional doctoral students, constructed according to the principles of fugue.
In successive sections, it discusses the application of autoethnography to music studies, the difference between autoethnography and autobiography, and the types of materials that represent valid sources for autoethnography, including creative writing as well as musical works themselves.
Dr Wiley’s article may be read online in HTML format here: http://act.maydaygroup.org/act-18-2-wiley/
It may be downloaded as a PDF here: http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Wiley18_2.pdf
The full issue of the journal may be accessed here: http://act.maydaygroup.org/volume-18-issue-2/
30 May 2013
Christopher Wiley
Publication, Research, Research Supervision
Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, City, City University London, Donat Berköz, London, Music, musicology, popular music, research, research supervision, Sini Timonen, University, Wiley
Two students whose doctoral research was supervised by Dr Christopher Wiley are celebrating recent publications.
Sini Timonen has written a book chapter on all-girl groups in garage, beat, and rock in the 1960s and 1970s for the anthology Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern, edited by Julia Downes (see here). Sini also contributed the Foreword to the e-book It’s Different for Girls, written by Merle Phillips and Margaret Brown (see here), two members of Mandy and the Girlfriends, an all-female beat group based in Hull and active in the 1960s. Its authors were first inspired to publish their reminiscences back in 2010, after Sini had interviewed them for her PhD dissertation on women musicians’ contribution to popular music in England between 1962 and 1971.
Dr Donat Berköz’s book chapter on the Turkish artist Nazan Öncel and women’s rights in modern Turkey appears in the anthology Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema, and Music, edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy (see here). Donat graduated from City University London in 2012 with a PhD dissertation entitled ‘A Gendered Musicological Study of the Work of Four Leading Female Singer-Songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos’.
16 September 2012
Christopher Wiley
Conference, Research, Research Supervision
Alex Jeffery, Alexander Jeffery, Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, City, City University London, conference, London, Music, popular music, popular music studies, research, research supervision, Sini Timonen, University, Wiley
Two doctoral students supervised by Dr Christopher Wiley presented papers at a major international conference, ‘Imagining Communities Musically: Putting Popular Music in its Place’, held by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) last week at the University of Salford.
Sini Timonen, who is in the closing stages of her PhD on women musicians’ contribution to popular music in England between 1962 and 1971, gave a paper entitled ‘The Girl Singer in 1960s London: the Position of Female Vocalists within the Pop Music Industry’. Drawing on original interviews conducted with lesser-known ‘Brit Girls’ active on the London pop scene in the sixties, Sini explored the major challenges they faced, the strategies by which they navigated them, and the implications of the essentially male-oriented contexts in which they worked.
Alexander Jeffery presented the paper ‘Reconfiguring Prince: how online fan communities are taking back control of the album’, in which he examined traditions amongst Prince fans active in online forums of proposing their own alternative track listings for landmark albums such as Purple Rain as well as abandoned album projects. Alex, who has recently entered his second year on the doctoral programme, is conducting research on manifestations of the long-form musical work in contemporary popular culture.
17 January 2012
Christopher Wiley
Publication, Research Supervision
48 Studies, Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, City, City University London, critical edition, Ferling, Hassiotis, historical musicology, Kostis Hassiotis, London, Music, musicology, oboe, performance studies, performing practice, Publication, research, research supervision, University, Wiley
D
r Kostis Hassiotis, who completed the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) programme at City University London in 2010 under the supervision of Dr Christopher Wiley, has recently published a book based on his doctoral thesis.
Entitled F. W. Ferling’s 48 Studies for Oboe, Op. 31: A Critical Edition Based on Historical Evidence with Particular Reference to Nineteenth-Century Performing Practices (ISBN: 978-3-8465-9724-8), the book is available for purchase from stores including Amazon and MoreBooks.
As the first systematic investigation of Ferling’s landmark 48 Studies for Oboe, the book includes information concerning Ferling as a performer and composer, a detailed description of his known compositions, and reference to the importance of the 48 Studies in modern instrumental training.
Now Assistant Professor of Oboe at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Dr Hassiotis is active internationally as a performer and researcher.
30 November 2011
Christopher Wiley
Conference, Presentation, Prizes & Awards, Research, Teaching
award, Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, City, City University London, dissertation supervision, Learning at City, London, Music, presentation, prize, research, research supervision, Student Voice Award, teaching, teaching excellence, University, Wiley
Dr Christopher Wiley has won a prestigious Student Voice Award (so named because all nominations are made by the students themselves) at City University London.
Staving off fierce competition from hundreds of nominees, Chris was one of 12 me
mbers of academic staff across the University to win the coveted £1,000 prize.
The Student Voice Award scheme is run by the University’s Students’ Union in conjunction with the Learning Development Centre, to acknowledge lecturers who have demonstrated great commitment to top-quality teaching, learning, and assessment over the past year, and who have made a positive impact on the student experience. Students are required to complete a one-page application by way of nominating a staff member.
Chris’s nomination was made primarily on the basis of excellence in dissertation supervision, together with quality and timeliness of feedback on written work. The students also commended him for the ‘buzz’ they feel after his lectures, for his listening and communication skills, and for the support he has given to student activities both on and off campus.
Chris was formally presented with the award at the prize-giving ceremony with which the annual ‘Learning at City’ conference ended on 23 June 2011. Earlier that day, he had delivered a presentation at the same conference based on his research on institutional handbooks for postgraduate research students.
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