Simon Zagorski-Thomas

University Lecturer, Chair of IASPM UK & Ireland, Founder 21st Century Music Practice Network, Founder ARP & ASARP

[RMA @royalmusical]

Statement from the Royal Musical Association on Goldsmiths:

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@BBCr4today @JustinOnWeb please don’t refer to Nazi concentration camps as ‘Polish’. It seems like punishing victims

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#britishlibrary #blackmusicresearchsymposium listening to great papers at the British Library for the UoW Annual Black Music Research Symposium @hussein_boon @MykaellRiley

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So Braverman says multiculturalism is a "misguided dogma" which allows people to "live parallel lives". Is that the same thing when those people are called ex-pats instead of immigrants?

[IASPM JOURNAL @iaspmjournal]

Practice Research Special Issue Editorial, by Simon Zagorski-Thomas @simonzt, Anthony Kwame Harrison, and Laura Jordán González
https://t.co/CM7d4Bup4C

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight.

Please take just two seconds to show you care.

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@deLaceyMusic It has impacted upon UWL

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@robinjcmillar Congratulations!

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@chrissyballico and this is Camden Town!

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I may have to take up archery

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I think one of the neighbours has taken up the bagpipes!

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Great talk @LCMLive by Mark Spicer of Hunter College CUNY on Tears For Fears, influence and The Beatles. Great discussion afterwards too!

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Yesterday's Practice Research in 21st Century Music conference at UWL was great. Thanks to everyone who took part for making it a great day. We will be following up with some more online content soon.

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Just received the program for Saturday's Practice Research in 21st Century Music conference at UWL. If you would like to attend you can find the details at: https://t.co/bk8LxKqEcP and register to attend at: https://t.co/n371IsrWke

[Natalia Zagorska-Thomas @Expurgamento]

Getting there.
The Strange Quotidian
@ISOLO17, Verona.

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@jwilli7 'You Suffer' by Napalm Death - listen if you don't know it (shortest piece of recorded popular music I believe) - my current mood... https://t.co/nPRdt7yIQP

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@prof_kozak I like Albin Zak's discussion of it in the introduction to Poetics of Rock - in the end he boils it down to Stravinsky's quote "The poetics of music is... about 'making' in the field of music". Understanding the 'doing' rather than the output of what is done. Small's 'Musicking'

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@prof_kozak I agree that music theory helps us listen 'better' but as Ewell pointed out it highlights certain features and not others which makes it vital to find the right theory for the right music. Melodic or harmonic analysis can make rhythmically or timbrally complex music seem simple.

[Dr Claire Stewart-Hall💙 @Clairerising]

So this happened….They made me wait 50 minutes to speak so by the time I got there…

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Schnitzel's telling me its time for a walk before the Premiere on YouTube. Remember to stay away in droves if you want to save the planet and only join me at 5pm UK time if you want the world to "end in a terrible, squalid cataclysm…" https://t.co/FMwaUEuAHw

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The YouTube Premiere of the final dub mix video from the album is today. The website story says: "The Failing Upwards album has to sink into obscurity or the world will end in a terrible, squalid cataclysm…" - so please don't join me at 5pm UK time on:
https://t.co/FMwaUEuAHw

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And don't, whatever you do, read the story on https://t.co/7l33NmJWSZ