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Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University

Richard Elliott is a cultural musicologist with a particular interest in popular musics of the world. He is the author of the books Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City (2010), Nina Simone (2013), The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music (2015), The Sound of Nonsense (2018) and DJs do Guetto (2022). He has also published articles and reviews on popular music, literature, consciousness, memory, nostalgia, place and space, affect, language and technology. Richard is Senior Lecturer in Music at the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University, where he specialises in courses related to popular music.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Senior lecturer, Newcastle University
  • 2012–2016
    Lecturer, University of Sussex

Education

  • 2008 
    Newcastle University, PhD in Music
  • 2002 
    Open University, MA in Popular Culture
  • 1997 
    University of Warwick, BA (Hons) in Comparative American Studies

Publications

  • 2022
    DJs do Guetto, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2018
    The Sound of Nonsense, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2015
    The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2013
    Nina Simone, Equinox
  • 2010
    Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City, Ashgate