Zack Moir

Professor of Music/PFHEA/Educator/Improviser/Composer. Interested in Popular Music Education and Critical Consciousness, Social Justice and HE

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

For anyone attending the APME (@PopMusicEd) conference at @LIPALiverpool this week, I'll be presenting tomorrow on Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis in Popular Music Education. Pop along and see me in room 405 at 12:20 if you fancy it:

https://t.co/cGmg01WF8V @sched

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

Liberation, Freedom and Counter-Hegemonic Praxis: Towards a critical pedagogy of pop music education

A link to my presentation at the first ever non-US @PopMusicEd conference that we hosted at @EdinburghNapier last year:
https://t.co/z8px9RHGl7
#musiceducation #findyourpeople

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

Although I wasn't able to make it to New Jersey for the International Society for the Sociology of Music Education conference, it was great to get the opportunity to present this online. It was also lovely to get the opportunity to see the work of some friends and colleagues!

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

It was great to play a part in organising this event at @EdinburghNapier in which we were exploring ways to develop music education provision for adults in rural Scotland and celebrating the work of @CIMSRS, Arianna Ranieri's excellent PhD project! #musiceducation #ruralscotland

[Edinburgh Napier University @EdinburghNapier]

🎻 | “This project has had a huge impact on people across Fife, including Auchtermuchty in my constituency, and it’s fantastic to see such great efforts to ensure music education is more accessible for adults in rural Scotland." - Liberal Democrat MP @wendychambLD.

An #EdNapier PhD student’s endeavour to teach music to adults in rural parts of Scotland has been hailed for its ‘huge impact’.

Lear more about the @CIMSRS Symposium ➡️ https://t.co/W9DUwrFrNn

#MustBeNapier | #ENUDifferenceMakers

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

I have a PhD student who is looking to recruit classroom music teachers (not instrumental instructors!) in Scotland for study. It would involve speaking to her for around 45 minutes (online or in person) about your experiences of teaching music. Please contact me if you can help!

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

New article:

Capitalist Realism and Higher Popular Music Education: Towards a counter-hegemonic alternative

in 'Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education'

Direct link to PDF version of the work here: https://t.co/cGZ6S9tjlM

#musiceducation #capitalistrealism #highered

[Edinburgh Napier University @EdinburghNapier]

🎵 | Unsigned artist in Scotland?

@MirrorGlassRec - founded by #EdNapier students in 2021 - is looking to sign artists who are ready to release their music!

The label is excited to work with passionate artists who stand to create a new, fairer, and more ethical model for the music industry, and welcome artists from any and all genders, ethnicities, and minorities.

Interested? Full details ➡️ https://t.co/je3MWnxM3t

#MustBeNapier | @Ed_Napier_Music

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

@MrsJTeaches Hi Susannah. So sorry, I have been away from X for a while and am only checking intermittently, meaning that I am only seeing this now. If it's not too late I would be very happy to help. Sorry for the delay.

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

A new linocut of the Leamington Lift Bridge in Edinburgh. It’s about 50x40cm (so just a wee one) which made the detail tricky to achieve.

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

This is an excellent project and one that is bringing so much joy through music education to rural areas in Scotland. It is a pleasure to be supervising Arianna's PhD and to see the incredible work that she's doing in this area. For more info, check out @CIMSRS #musiceducation

[Edinburgh Napier University @EdinburghNapier]

🎻 | An innovative music project, led by an #EdNapier PhD student, aims to inspire adults in Fife to come together and pick up an instrument – following success on a west coast island.

During the first part of the unique project, Arianna Ranieri ran 12 weeks of free violin and viola (upper strings) lessons in Millport on Great Cumbrae.

A group of around 20 participants, many of whom had not played before, quickly formed – with the lessons and jam sessions culminating in a Christmas concert attended by people from across the island.

From tomorrow (11 Jan), the project arrives in Auchtermuchty for its next run.

Learn more about @CIMSRS ➡️ https://t.co/6KAjI2WKxx

#MustBeNapier | #ENUDifferenceMakers

[Henry A. Giroux @HenryGiroux]

Just arrived. Two of the books that started a long journey engaging education as central to politics.

[Paul Ashwin @paulashwin]

I am giving an online seminar on Tuesday 19th November on how transformational accounts of students' undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge. If you're interested then you can find more details and register here: https://t.co/Eok9zGkJgM

[Ewen Maclean @Algorhythmica1]

Bikes been nicked. This is the only recent pic I have. Old green Kona mahuna, slx brakes, DT dynamo hub, dt swiss and Mavic wheels. Built it all myself. Not worth much but massively so to me. Anyone happens to spot it please let me know

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

There were some beautiful things happening in the sky outside the kitchen window last night. I know the internet is saturated (pun intended!) with these at the moment but it’s the first time I’ve caught the aurora on camera and I find it mesmerising! #aurora #AuroraBorealis

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

@Kir_Anderson @watersidepress Congrats!!

[Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) @TeachinginHE]

Earlier this year, we published a Special Issue on precarity in #HigherEd

In March 2025, @SRHE73 will organise a symposium based on this SI: Responding to the challenges posed by precarity in higher education teaching

Read more and register ⬇️

https://t.co/LJYDQtkBWg

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

Chuffed to have my print The Temple of The Four Winds included in the Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Exhibition which runs until 16/11/24. See the print info here: https://t.co/o3L5jlrqB5

The building is on the @CastleHowardEst estate.
Printed on lovely @AwagamiFactory paper.

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx:

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

https://t.co/MsUUQ5JqYK

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

@i_am_vikkic @QMUniversity Brilliant! Congrats and good luck.

[Zack Moir @zackmoir]

Nice to see my prints on the wall in the Bridging Gaps exhibition at @artcraftcollect earlier this week. It’s open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5 until the 31st of August. There are some very beautiful pieces from some very talented artists - go and have a look if you can.

[Arts and Humanities_Journal @AHHEJournal]

I am stepping down as Editor of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Please read here about the call for a new Editor. Great opportunity. https://t.co/IJaoAUAIEb