Untraditional Folk
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This project created an interactive model for analysing alternative-popular folk music with a research-based web community database.
As an MPhil student in Music, Rachel Sweeney explored use of the Web as site for conjunction of academic and popular fan discourse around new cultural/genre movements. Her action research case study focused on the genre then described as "nu-folk".
Products of the research included the Untraditional Folkmusics website (last access in July 2011), a prototype tangible authoring system for exploration and annotation of multimedia critical discourse, and a large-scale mixed media visualisation of perspectives in critical musicology.
http://www.untraditionalfolkmusics.co.uk/
Collaborators:
- Nicholas Cook (co-supervisor of dissertation)
- Alan Blackwell (co-supervisor of dissertation)
- Tim Regan (large scale visualisation)
- Alex Kuscher (tangible authoring system)
