Kieran Mcgee
Biographic Data
| ID | 188728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kieran Mcgee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kieran |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgee |
| SIGNATURE | MCGEE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3897-1024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hacking Viral Jazz’s Gendered Hierarchies
Despite insights gained from studies of algorithmic cultures, the extent to which online platforms impact artistic practice and career potential in jazz music has been little examined. This study expands recent knowledge in relation to the affordances of online platforms for jazz musicians, drawing attention to jazz’s gendered dimensions within networked music sites. It examines how jazz musicians adapt to online ecosystems, variably retaining es…
Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland
The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry situated in the Channel Country region of Western Queensland. Our results indicate three pit abandonments at ∼97…
Disassembling the gendered archetype of the male jazz impresario in the United States
In the United States, jazz impresarios historically inhabited the quintessential cosmopolitan role of (white) male jazz critic and intrepid discoverer of Black musical creativity. This article explores the once entrenched and yet recently challenged gendered and cultural dynamics surrounding the powerful jazz impresario role in an era transitioning from a local individualized coterie of fans and critics with liberal socio-cultural politics to a m…
Breaking boundaries in festival programming
In Germany, the modern jazz festival programmer descended from earlier multifaceted roles established during the interwar and war periods as cultivated by both German and international jazz critics, record collectors, and impresarios. While impresarios historically occupied multiple roles as fans, critics, and producers; they often inhabited the quintessential cosmopolitan role of (white) male jazz critic and discoverer of Black musical creativit…
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia
This article reviews ethnographic descriptions of Australia's First Nations people's grain threshing to inform future grain research and revival of practice in south-eastern Australia. The processing of grain requires many steps, and while harvesting, winnowing and grinding are comparatively well-documented, the threshing stage, which involves the removal of the husk and other nonedible parts of the seed head before the seed is winnowed and groun…
Patches of Survival in the Anthropocene
This article examines the Ukrainian electro-folk band Go_A and their multimedial performances of “SHUM” created for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. We highlight how Go_A’s performances feature an aesthetics of ecstasy and melancholia despite ongoing damage within Anthropogenic late capitalism. We compare two versions of the song, exposing critical contexts for the group’s local, transmedial, and international reception. Informed by musicologica…
Biopolitics and Media Power in the Online Dance Remake
This article examines the dance sequences from Beyoncé's 2013 video "***Flawless" to highlight the centrality of popular black dance within contemporary culture. Further, it looks beyond Beyoncé's corpus to critically examine the dance remake, a forum in which dancers harness "media power" (Carroll) within the YouTube archive to re-signify Beyoncé's work through collective choreographed dance. In this environment, dancers construct alternative bi…
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
Staging jazz pasts within commercial European jazz festivals
This article examines the North Sea Jazz Festival in order to highlight the growing influence of both ‘convergence culture’ (Jenkins) and prevailing jazz mythologies upon the reception and organization of contemporary European jazz festivals. In particular, the European jazz festival is examined within the context of increasing commercialization and digital mediation of the live music field. To stake my claim, I first sketch the context within wh…
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on the musical and cultural impact of Beyonce.The 2016 launch of Lemonade and the Formation World Tour–along with Beyonce’s
The Girls in the Band
Promoting Affect and Desire in the International Industrial World of Smooth Jazz
In this article, I suggest that the feminized and sexualized associations of smooth jazz as fashioned by the industry during the 1990s have since contributed to its vitriolic and sometimes hysterical denouncement by jazz performers and scholars. In particular, I uncover the affective, sexual, and gendered significance surrounding smooth jazz's reception to highlight the industrial complex precipitating its commercial ascent. Finally, I concretely…
The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All‐Girl Bands
The internationally acclaimed all-girl jazz band of the 1920s and 1930s, the Ingenues, became one of the most popular featured attractions of the multi-faceted stage-show performances showcased in combination with the new sound-films. The Ingenues, like other mass-mediated white all-girl jazz performances, remained intimately connected to the mediums of film, vaudeville, and variety revue as well as the controversial chorus-girl spectacles. Durin…
The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All‐Girl Bands
The internationally acclaimed all-girl jazz band of the 1920s and 1930s, the Ingenues, became one of the most popular featured attractions of the multi-faceted stage-show performances showcased in combination with the new sound-films. The Ingenues, like other mass-mediated white all-girl jazz performances, remained intimately connected to the mediums of film, vaudeville, and variety revue as well as the controversial chorus-girl spectacles. Durin…
Biopolitics and Media Power in the Online Dance Remake
This article examines the dance sequences from Beyoncé's 2013 video "***Flawless" to highlight the centrality of popular black dance within contemporary culture. Further, it looks beyond Beyoncé's corpus to critically examine the dance remake, a forum in which dancers harness "media power" (Carroll) within the YouTube archive to re-signify Beyoncé's work through collective choreographed dance. In this environment, dancers construct alternative bi…
Staging jazz pasts within commercial European jazz festivals
This article examines the North Sea Jazz Festival in order to highlight the growing influence of both ‘convergence culture’ (Jenkins) and prevailing jazz mythologies upon the reception and organization of contemporary European jazz festivals. In particular, the European jazz festival is examined within the context of increasing commercialization and digital mediation of the live music field. To stake my claim, I first sketch the context within wh…
The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All‐Girl Bands
The internationally acclaimed all-girl jazz band of the 1920s and 1930s, the Ingenues, became one of the most popular featured attractions of the multi-faceted stage-show performances showcased in combination with the new sound-films. The Ingenues, like other mass-mediated white all-girl jazz performances, remained intimately connected to the mediums of film, vaudeville, and variety revue as well as the controversial chorus-girl spectacles. Durin…
Promoting Affect and Desire in the International Industrial World of Smooth Jazz
In this article, I suggest that the feminized and sexualized associations of smooth jazz as fashioned by the industry during the 1990s have since contributed to its vitriolic and sometimes hysterical denouncement by jazz performers and scholars. In particular, I uncover the affective, sexual, and gendered significance surrounding smooth jazz's reception to highlight the industrial complex precipitating its commercial ascent. Finally, I concretely…
The Girls in the Band
Staging jazz pasts within commercial European jazz festivals
This article examines the North Sea Jazz Festival in order to highlight the growing influence of both ‘convergence culture’ (Jenkins) and prevailing jazz mythologies upon the reception and organization of contemporary European jazz festivals. In particular, the European jazz festival is examined within the context of increasing commercialization and digital mediation of the live music field. To stake my claim, I first sketch the context within wh…
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on the musical and cultural impact of Beyonce.The 2016 launch of Lemonade and the Formation World Tour–along with Beyonce’s
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
Biopolitics and Media Power in the Online Dance Remake
This article examines the dance sequences from Beyoncé's 2013 video "***Flawless" to highlight the centrality of popular black dance within contemporary culture. Further, it looks beyond Beyoncé's corpus to critically examine the dance remake, a forum in which dancers harness "media power" (Carroll) within the YouTube archive to re-signify Beyoncé's work through collective choreographed dance. In this environment, dancers construct alternative bi…
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia
This article reviews ethnographic descriptions of Australia's First Nations people's grain threshing to inform future grain research and revival of practice in south-eastern Australia. The processing of grain requires many steps, and while harvesting, winnowing and grinding are comparatively well-documented, the threshing stage, which involves the removal of the husk and other nonedible parts of the seed head before the seed is winnowed and groun…
Patches of Survival in the Anthropocene
This article examines the Ukrainian electro-folk band Go_A and their multimedial performances of “SHUM” created for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. We highlight how Go_A’s performances feature an aesthetics of ecstasy and melancholia despite ongoing damage within Anthropogenic late capitalism. We compare two versions of the song, exposing critical contexts for the group’s local, transmedial, and international reception. Informed by musicologica…
Disassembling the gendered archetype of the male jazz impresario in the United States
In the United States, jazz impresarios historically inhabited the quintessential cosmopolitan role of (white) male jazz critic and intrepid discoverer of Black musical creativity. This article explores the once entrenched and yet recently challenged gendered and cultural dynamics surrounding the powerful jazz impresario role in an era transitioning from a local individualized coterie of fans and critics with liberal socio-cultural politics to a m…
Breaking boundaries in festival programming
In Germany, the modern jazz festival programmer descended from earlier multifaceted roles established during the interwar and war periods as cultivated by both German and international jazz critics, record collectors, and impresarios. While impresarios historically occupied multiple roles as fans, critics, and producers; they often inhabited the quintessential cosmopolitan role of (white) male jazz critic and discoverer of Black musical creativit…
Hacking Viral Jazz’s Gendered Hierarchies
Despite insights gained from studies of algorithmic cultures, the extent to which online platforms impact artistic practice and career potential in jazz music has been little examined. This study expands recent knowledge in relation to the affordances of online platforms for jazz musicians, drawing attention to jazz’s gendered dimensions within networked music sites. It examines how jazz musicians adapt to online ecosystems, variably retaining es…
Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland
The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry situated in the Channel Country region of Western Queensland. Our results indicate three pit abandonments at ∼97…
Art (10 works) · Music History and Culture (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Jazz (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works)