Women in Music Roundtable

In honour of International Women's Day, this episode brings together PhD researchers from a range of backgrounds to explore the role of gender in musical traditions and genres (from opera to classical to popular music). Join us as we celebrate the voices of women in music research, dive into everything from Kendrick Lamar’s iconic Super Bowl performance to Dolly Parton’s timeless legacy, and share a few of our personal listening gems along the way! You can find these gems in the accompanying Spotify playlist. About the participants: Adrianna Chmielewska is a first-year PhD student at Kingston University. Her research focuses on adaptation of literature into opera as a reflection of Italian cultural identities. Looking at the development of opera from the 17th to the 21st century, she investigates how turning stories into opera communicates with Italian culture and society. Adrianna sees opera beyond the elitist stereotype, as a persistent, vibrant and culturally rich means of storytelling. Emma Haughton is a third year student with techne at Kingston University. Her PhD focuses on the intersections of Musicology with English Literature, culture studies, and philosophy exploring women who wrote symphonies during the twentieth century. Her main focus of her thesis is exploring the symphonies of African American composer Florence Price through a postcolonial/transnational lens. Eva Dieteren is a second year Techne-funded PhD student at Kingston University London. Her research sits at the crossroads of feminist theory and popular music studies, with a focus on exploring concept albums through feminist, new materialist, and decolonial perspectives. Felix Clutson is a fourth year Teche PhD student at the University of Surrey. His research explores the production and translation of football museum texts, focusing specifically on the tension between the local representation and global reach of clubs. Isabel Sykes is in her third year of her Techne-funded Sociology PhD at Brunel, University of London. Her project investigates media representations of unpaid domestic labour alongside working-class women’s lived experiences of such work. This episode was produced and presented by Eva Dieteren Technecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTP The music is composed and generously given by Jennifer Doveton If you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via instagram @technecast