Tony Whyton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3065653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Whyton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Whyton |
| SIGNATURE | WHYTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6745-9911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Encountering the Plague
This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors focus on the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life, drawing also on insights from different historical experiences of plague as a way of exploring human responses to epidemics, past and present. Each chapter opens with a different illustration that serves as a source for subseque…
Space is the place
The JPI-Heritage Plus supported Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME) project was established to examine the workings of jazz festivals and their relationship to cultural heritage as discursive practice. Jazz festivals occupy a significant – if undervalued – place in the ecologies of Europe’s cultural heritage, with their dynamic and synergetic relationship to spaces and cultural sites. Drawing on a number of case s…
Cultural heritage and jazz festivals' special issue editors' introduction
Moving to Higher Ground
The 2014 conference ‘Growing Up: Jazz between 1960 and 1980' in Lucerne provided a stimulating environment for the examination of European identity in jazz, and offered several fascinating insights into the musical landscape and changing cultural discourses of jazz during this period in history. This article builds on the overarching theme of the Conference by examining what the concept of ‘growing up' means for jazz within this time period. I ex…
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Four for Trane
This article comments on the paradoxical nature of new art and its relationship to technology, and discusses the impact of iconic recordings on contemporary performance habits. Using four examples of iconic media associated with John Coltrane, I construct a model from which to examine current trends in jazz performance that are influenced both directly and indirectly by recordings. I open \nwith a discussion of how the jazz icon-audience relation…
Space is the place
The JPI-Heritage Plus supported Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME) project was established to examine the workings of jazz festivals and their relationship to cultural heritage as discursive practice. Jazz festivals occupy a significant – if undervalued – place in the ecologies of Europe’s cultural heritage, with their dynamic and synergetic relationship to spaces and cultural sites. Drawing on a number of case s…
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Four for Trane
This article comments on the paradoxical nature of new art and its relationship to technology, and discusses the impact of iconic recordings on contemporary performance habits. Using four examples of iconic media associated with John Coltrane, I construct a model from which to examine current trends in jazz performance that are influenced both directly and indirectly by recordings. I open \nwith a discussion of how the jazz icon-audience relation…
Musical genre and gender as factors in higher education learning in music
Educational and psychological research suggests that gender and musical genre can influence musical learning and the development of musical identities, particularly during adolescence. However, there is a relative paucity of educational studies in higher education (HE) concerning the possible impact on musical learning of gender and musical genre, either individually or collectively. As part of a two‐year comparative study funded under the Econom…
Moving to Higher Ground
The 2014 conference ‘Growing Up: Jazz between 1960 and 1980' in Lucerne provided a stimulating environment for the examination of European identity in jazz, and offered several fascinating insights into the musical landscape and changing cultural discourses of jazz during this period in history. This article builds on the overarching theme of the Conference by examining what the concept of ‘growing up' means for jazz within this time period. I ex…
Space is the place
The JPI-Heritage Plus supported Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME) project was established to examine the workings of jazz festivals and their relationship to cultural heritage as discursive practice. Jazz festivals occupy a significant – if undervalued – place in the ecologies of Europe’s cultural heritage, with their dynamic and synergetic relationship to spaces and cultural sites. Drawing on a number of case s…
Cultural heritage and jazz festivals' special issue editors' introduction
Encountering the Plague
This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors focus on the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life, drawing also on insights from different historical experiences of plague as a way of exploring human responses to epidemics, past and present. Each chapter opens with a different illustration that serves as a source for subseque…
Art (4 works) · Jazz (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works)