Tom Sykes
Biographic Data
| ID | 643565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Sykes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Sykes |
| SIGNATURE | SYKES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9636-7135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Great Woman Theory of Media History
Drawing on the insights of Bollmer and Guinness (2024), we define the “Ressa Brand” as a conflation of an individual human subject with the logics of marketing, individual libertarianism, and “soci
We will fight them on the centre ground, we will never remember
This article argues that a form of what Sigmund Freud termed ‘abnormal repression’ [(2014). Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Read & Co. (Originally published in 1910] writ large onto British cultural memory is essential to understanding several phenomena: firstly, the UK’s popular amnesia about the Second World War, a process that echoes Michael Billig’s proposition that ‘Historians creatively remember ideologically convenient facts of the past,…
Whose story is it, anyway
In his study Storycraft, the veteran American journalist Jack Hart asks the following questions about reportage, memoir and other forms of nonfiction writing that proceed from the first-person perspective of their author: ‘Where’s the storyteller standing? What can he see and hear? Whose story is it, anyway?' (Hart, 2021, Storycraft: The complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction (p. 39). University of Chicago Press). The questions are sugges…
Learning Music for Fun, Not Credit
This article is a critical reflection of a small, practice-based project involving a university big band. Music was written specially for the project by the author, who is the band director, and this big band is an extra-curricular ensemble made up of both students and musicians from the local community. The project uses an Artistic Research approach, in which insights are gained through the practice and for which the artistic artefacts (in this …
Cacique clichés
The Making of a Supranational Stereotype
This essay critiques Orientalist constructions of Chinese-Filipinos in British and American fiction, travel writing and reportage over four centuries. The Chinese as skinflint entrepreneur is perhaps the oldest stereotype in this repertoire, reaching back to Daniel Defoe in 1725, and bearing common attributes with the anti-Semitic modelling of Jews in Europe. A century later, travel writers Charles Wilkes and William Henry Thomes conflate concern…
Imagining Manila
The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European po…
Grappling with Grappelli
The violin has been played in jazz from the beginning of the music's history, and yet it has, until relatively recently, been somewhat neglected as a significant jazz instrument in terms of both performance and education. One style of jazz in which the violin is significant is so-called 'gypsy jazz', which originated with the formation of Le Quintette du Hot-club de France in the early 1930s featuring gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinis…
Supernatural Cities
Far from being a static or eroding cultural inheritance from the past, the supernatural has continually been appropriated and updated to accommodate and express social, cultural, economic and environmental anxieties. Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour …
Language, gender and orientalist rhetoric in American fiction and travel writing on the US conquest and colonization of the Philippines (1898-1929)
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902) was arguably the foundational event in US imperialism, bearing chilling parallels with later US campaigns in Vietnam and Iraq. This article discusses American popular novels of the period by Edward Stratemeyer, Archibald Clavering Gunter, Charles King and others that, guided by a number of imperialist, colonialist and social Darwinist assumptions, textually produce the war in ways that omit, distort or excu…
Music Outside? Innovation and ‘Britishness' in British Jazz 1960-1980
The 1960s and 1970s are regarded by some historians as being particularly creative decades for jazz in Britain, when British jazz developed its own sound that was distinct from that of American jazz. While not denying that this was a creatively fruitful period in British jazz, in this paper I argue that a ‘British sound' in jazz is difficult, perhaps impossible, to define, even though some authors have referred to a sense of ‘Britishness', partic…
The Dasmariñases, early governors of the Spanish Philippines
Those of us engaged in research into Philippine history and historiography are often impeded by a relative paucity of primary sources on the early Spanish colonial period. One reason for the paucit
“British Jazz History” – from The Jazz Site
“British Jazz History” – from The Jazz Site, http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=41:british-jazz-history-home&Itemid=50 The Jazz Site is the website of Jazz Services
Imagining Manila
The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European po…
“British Jazz History” – from The Jazz Site
“British Jazz History” – from The Jazz Site, http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=41:british-jazz-history-home&Itemid=50 The Jazz Site is the website of Jazz Services
Music Outside? Innovation and ‘Britishness' in British Jazz 1960-1980
The 1960s and 1970s are regarded by some historians as being particularly creative decades for jazz in Britain, when British jazz developed its own sound that was distinct from that of American jazz. While not denying that this was a creatively fruitful period in British jazz, in this paper I argue that a ‘British sound' in jazz is difficult, perhaps impossible, to define, even though some authors have referred to a sense of ‘Britishness', partic…
The Dasmariñases, early governors of the Spanish Philippines
Those of us engaged in research into Philippine history and historiography are often impeded by a relative paucity of primary sources on the early Spanish colonial period. One reason for the paucit
Supernatural Cities
Far from being a static or eroding cultural inheritance from the past, the supernatural has continually been appropriated and updated to accommodate and express social, cultural, economic and environmental anxieties. Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour …
Language, gender and orientalist rhetoric in American fiction and travel writing on the US conquest and colonization of the Philippines (1898-1929)
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902) was arguably the foundational event in US imperialism, bearing chilling parallels with later US campaigns in Vietnam and Iraq. This article discusses American popular novels of the period by Edward Stratemeyer, Archibald Clavering Gunter, Charles King and others that, guided by a number of imperialist, colonialist and social Darwinist assumptions, textually produce the war in ways that omit, distort or excu…
Grappling with Grappelli
The violin has been played in jazz from the beginning of the music's history, and yet it has, until relatively recently, been somewhat neglected as a significant jazz instrument in terms of both performance and education. One style of jazz in which the violin is significant is so-called 'gypsy jazz', which originated with the formation of Le Quintette du Hot-club de France in the early 1930s featuring gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinis…
Imagining Manila
The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other events. This book examines British and American writing on the city, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European po…
The Making of a Supranational Stereotype
This essay critiques Orientalist constructions of Chinese-Filipinos in British and American fiction, travel writing and reportage over four centuries. The Chinese as skinflint entrepreneur is perhaps the oldest stereotype in this repertoire, reaching back to Daniel Defoe in 1725, and bearing common attributes with the anti-Semitic modelling of Jews in Europe. A century later, travel writers Charles Wilkes and William Henry Thomes conflate concern…
Learning Music for Fun, Not Credit
This article is a critical reflection of a small, practice-based project involving a university big band. Music was written specially for the project by the author, who is the band director, and this big band is an extra-curricular ensemble made up of both students and musicians from the local community. The project uses an Artistic Research approach, in which insights are gained through the practice and for which the artistic artefacts (in this …
Cacique clichés
We will fight them on the centre ground, we will never remember
This article argues that a form of what Sigmund Freud termed ‘abnormal repression’ [(2014). Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Read & Co. (Originally published in 1910] writ large onto British cultural memory is essential to understanding several phenomena: firstly, the UK’s popular amnesia about the Second World War, a process that echoes Michael Billig’s proposition that ‘Historians creatively remember ideologically convenient facts of the past,…
Whose story is it, anyway
In his study Storycraft, the veteran American journalist Jack Hart asks the following questions about reportage, memoir and other forms of nonfiction writing that proceed from the first-person perspective of their author: ‘Where’s the storyteller standing? What can he see and hear? Whose story is it, anyway?' (Hart, 2021, Storycraft: The complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction (p. 39). University of Chicago Press). The questions are sugges…
The Great Woman Theory of Media History
Drawing on the insights of Bollmer and Guinness (2024), we define the “Ressa Brand” as a conflation of an individual human subject with the logics of marketing, individual libertarianism, and “soci
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Jazz (4 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works)