Philip Long

Biographic Data

ID278144
NAMEPhilip Long
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMELong
SIGNATURELONG P
AFFILIATIONSBirmingham City University
ORCID0000-0001-6410-5803
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS69
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop

    Open AccessA Watson, Suzanne Grasso et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2025Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article was written collectively in the spirit of the commons and homemade, do-it-yourself (HADIY) creativity. It is animated by the observation that the once-radical suggestion of Raymond Williams that culture is ordinary forms the ‘commonsense’ of cultural studies. However, it argues that this remains a blind spot in the landscape of cultural policy and the creative ecology, especially as it pertains to the everyday creativity of ordinary …

  • Conceptualizing heritaging in the representation of the revival of the record store and vinyl

    Open AccessPhilip LongARTICLEContinuum2025References: 10

    This paper examines representation of the conjoined ‘revival’ of record stores and vinyl through the lens of cultural heritage. It employs David Crouch’s concept of ‘heritaging’, which describes an active process in which heritage is constituted. Analysis derives from a case study of Vinyl Nation, a documentary depiction of the record store as a site of discovery and rediscovery of vinyl and its cultures of consumption and community. Depictions i…

  • Internment, immersive technology and historical empathy: Natal’s Fort Napier Camp (1914–1919) as a virtual reality experience

    Open AccessStefan Manz, Philip Long et al.ARTICLEImmigrants & Minorities2025References: 30

    The article presents a new way of reconstructing and representing the history of internment. It provides a critical academic framework for the authors’ virtual reality experience (VRE) Interned. Fort Napier Camp in South Africa held 2,500 civilians, mostly German ‘enemy aliens’, during the First World War. The VRE gives users an immersive experience of the camp and was produced through rigorous cross-sector collaboration between academia and indu…

  • Australia’s hidden musicians: Education and training in rural and regional areas

    Paul Watts, Ben Green et al.ARTICLEMusic Education Research2024

    This article examines the fortunes of music education programs in rural and regional Australia. It argues that the two key national reports on music education across the nation undertaken in 2005 and 2019 have tended to focus on metropolitan and urban settings and formalised school education at the pre-tertiary level at the expense of music education programs in rural and regional areas. In this article, we argue that a more complete picture of m…

  • Creative futures for cultural heritage: A typology of creative practice in the GLAM sector - towards a creative heritage approach

    Open AccessLauren Istvandity, Baker et al.ARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2024Cited by: 1References: 35

    This article seeks to develop a non-prescriptive typology of creative practice and its role in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions through an examination of published research. Highlighting key issues and perspectives on integration and intent in each approach it examines practice through five categories: (1) demonstration; (2) programmed performance; (3) historically informed creativity and performance; (4) institution…

  • Research into practice in the affective information comic

    Philip LongARTICLELaw and Humanities2023

    The ‘archival turn’ describes the way in which political, memorial, legal, and social issues have been explored by archive professionals and amateurs, as well as theorists across the humanities, including legal scholars and indeed, creative artists. Together, their work has sought to explore the archive reflexively, attending to the interests that come to bear upon its formation and role determining what counts as knowledge and how that plays a p…

  • A economia cultural do patrimônio da música popular

    Open AccessPhilip LongARTICLENovos Olhares2021

    Quais são o significado, a significância e a função da herança da música popular, um campo de práticas que passou por considerável expansão desde a virada do século? Este artigo situa tal eflorescência no contexto de uma maior democratização do patrimônio, memória, arquivo e da história ao examinar a singularidade desse campo por meio das lentes da economia da cultura. A partir de evidências oriundas de uma variedade de exemplos contemporâneos, d…

  • The values and value of community heritage: Visitor evaluation of do-it-yourself museums and archives of popular music in Europe, Australasia and the United States of America

    Baker, Z Cantillon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Heritage Tourism2021References: 10

    Do-it-yourself (DIY) and community-based efforts to preserve popular music heritage often take place in tangible sites open to the public. These places contrast with authorised sites of heritage in their form, but not their function, and are often judged equally by visitors in terms of cultural value. This article analyses Tripadvisor user reviews of 11 DIY institutions of popular music heritage to highlight the tension between the production of …

  • Listening again to popular music as history

    Philip Long, Paul Leslie Long et al.ARTICLEPopular Music History2020

    This guest editorial introduces four articles in the first of two special editions reflecting on the nature of our thinking and methods as scholars of popular music history. While many of us draw on an inter-disciplinary range of skills and repertories, what is it we think we are doing in producing our accounts of the past in and through music? What is at stake in our discussions and wider claims for the value of what we do

  • The meaning of the music venue: Historicizing the Click Club

    Philip Long, Sarah RaineARTICLEPopular Music History2020

    This article focuses on a venue/music night in 1980s Birmingham called the ‘Click Club’. The history of the club is documented via a critical account of a 2016 exhibition entitled ‘Is There Any One Out There’, which celebrated the venue and the many bands that performed there. It is noted that since the club’s demise, Birmingham has gone through a process of physical and cultural regeneration, celebrating some of its local icons such as Black Sab…

  • The poetics of recorded time: Listening again to popular music history

    Philip LongARTICLEPopular Music History2020

    This article explores how the possibilities of historical thinking are particularly unimpeded across a wealth of practices circulated around and in popular music. These possibilities are expressed in and about the creative form, mediation, reception and preservation of popular music to the degree that one might speak of a rhetorical imaginary or poetics of history. Extending beyond disciplinary horizons and expectations, this poetics is productiv…

  • Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham

    Philip LongARTICLEMidland History2020

  • Hybridity and Soft Power Statecraft: The ‘GREAT’ Campaign

    Paweł Surowiec, Philip Long et al.ARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2020Cited by: 1References: 8

    This examination analyses transformations to statecraft accelerated by digital media technologies. This theory-building study moves beyond digitalisation of diplomacy as a means of adapting statecraft to evolving media landscapes, and extends to the governance of soft power capabilities. It challenges static approaches to digital diplomacy and argues for conceptualisations of soft power that account for changes to statecraft. To theorise this dyn…

  • The university as intermediary for the creative economy: Pedagogues, policy-makers and creative workers in the curriculum

    Open AccessDavid Harte, Philip Long et al.ARTICLEArts and Humanities in Higher…2019References: 9

    This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector. The article takes a case study approach, engaging with university policy, student research, reflections from graduates and staff who have participated in a suite of integrated MA awards at a UK univ…

  • Counter-memorial aesthetics: Refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art

    Philip LongARTICLEVisual Studies2019

    Counter-memorial aesthetics: refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art." Visual Studies, 34(4), pp. 395–396

  • And then there was one’ Cultural Representations of the Last British Veteran of the Great War

    Philip Long, Nick WebberARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2018References: 14

    This article reflects on the cultural representations of the last British veterans of the Great War, who passed away several years before the centenary commemorations. Focussing on Harry Patch (1898–2009) — celebrated as the last veteran to have fought on the Western Front — the article examines the ways in which Patch has served as a signal figure. The authors pay particular attention to the rhetorical motifs and narrative tropes of the popular …

  • International Students' Perceptions and Experiences of British Drinking Cultures

    Open AccessThomas Thurnell‐read, Thomas Thurnell-Read et al.ARTICLESociological Research Online2018Cited by: 2References: 43

    While the increased scale and importance of international students to the UK Higher Education sector is now well established, little is known about the ways in which students from non-UK countries experience and interact with the heavy drinking culture that predominates on and near many British universities. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this article analyses the perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of British drinking cultures held by in…

  • The parallel worlds of tourism destination management and the creative industries: Exchanging knowledge, theory and practice

    Philip Long, Philip E LongARTICLEJournal of Policy Research in…2017

    This paper suggests that there may be insufficient recognition of critical ideas, professional and cultural practices associated with the ‘creative industries’ among tourism destination management researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in England. The paper considers the relationships between academic and practitioner knowledge and practice that potentially connect tourism destination management with creativity and the arts. The paper argue…

  • Conceptualizing Creativity and Strategy in the Work of Professional Songwriters

    Philip Long, Simon BarberARTICLEPopular Music & Society2017Cited by: 3References: 7

    Drawing upon interviews conducted as part of the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast this paper explores professional songwriting as musical labor. It explores how songwriters conceptualize creativity and what strategies they employ for the delivery of original songs. It argues that individuals evince a faith in their own autonomy in the face of the demands of form and industry, expressing intuitive concepts of inspiration and practical insights in…

  • The Rise and Fall of the UK Film Council

    Philip Long, Paul LongARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2017

    The UK Film Council (UKFC) was established in 2000 under the New Labour Government and closed in 2011 by the Conservative-Liberal coalition in the so-called ‘bonfire of the quangos’. The strategic

  • Tourism and the Creative Industries: Theories, policies and practice

    Corinna Budnarowski, Ruth Marciniak et al.BOOKTourism and the Creative Industries2016

    This chapter explores the relationship between fashion and tourism. In doing so, it re-examines current thinking regarding fashion tourism and the extent to which this may be classified as part of the creative industries. The outline of the chapter is, first, to define fashion tourism. For the purposes of the chapter, fashion design is defined in the UK context, this being the category of specialised design activities. It is evident from the abov…

  • Migrating heritage: Experiences of cultural networks and cultural dialogue in Europe

    Philip Long, Philip E LongARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2016

    "Migrating heritage: experiences of cultural networks and cultural dialogue in Europe." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22(7), pp. 582–583

  • “Really Saying Something?” What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Popular Music Heritage, Memory, Archives and the Digital?

    Philip Long, Paul LongCHAPTERPreserving Popular Music Heritage2015

    This chapter examines the efflorescence of popular work devoted to music history, on and offline, with respect to the archival turn. Across platforms, online practice generally emulates the conventions of popular music in terms of its organisation and understanding. There are sites dedicated to specific artists and groups, for instance, those whose activities are long past, perhaps due to the death of key individuals. The chapter also explores th…

  • Earogenous zones: Sound, sexuality and cinema

    Philip LongARTICLEPorn Studies2015

    This splendidly titled collection is an addition to Equinox's titles on cinematic genre, music and sound, a series that encompasses studies of horror, animation, fantasy and comedy alongside this e

  • The last post: British press representations of veterans of the Great War

    Open AccessNick Webber, Philip LongARTICLEMedia War & Conflict2014References: 5

    Harry Patch (1898–2009) was the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the Western Front, entering the media spotlight in 1998 when he was approached to contribute to the BBC documentary Veterans. Media coverage of Patch and the cultivation of his totemic status were particularly prodigious in anticipating and marking his death, producing a range of reflections on its historical, social and cultural significance. Focusing on the…