As its fifth and final season launches on Netflix, we dissect Top Boy’s impact as a media phenomenon and the elements that super-charged its vision of Black inner-city London onto a global stage.
The lineup features a Yasujiro Ozu season and on-stage guests including actors Brian Cox and Danny Dyer, directors Ken Loach and Shane Meadows, and more.
Jenny McMahon was a fine, creative, productive scholar, and a diligent, innovative teacher who made a substantial and enduring global contribution to the discipline of philosophy, particularly in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of art and meta-ethics.
The Musicology Colloquium presents a talk by Georgina Born Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music of University College London, will discuss The Dynamics of Pluralism in Contemporary Digital Art Music. Abstract: Academic electroacoustic music, and specifically acousmatic music, the modernist lineage that came to prominence from the 1970s in universities in the UK, Canada and Europe, has been both hegemonic and waning for around twenty years. In this presentation, based on a chapter from the book Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology, Georgina explores this state of affairs through an ethnography of innovative British university trainings in computer music, digital art music, sound art and related scenes –– trainings she gathers under the term ‘music technology degrees’. The aim is to probe the burgeoning pluralism of digital art music in the UK as this presses on contemporary music writ large. Georgina’s fieldwork focused on three leading British a