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Professor Michael Denning from Yale will deliver this year's Said Memorial lecture -

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Said Lecture

The English Department presents the 14th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Thursday 1^st March – Social Sciences S0.21 – drinks reception from 6:30 – talk at 7:00. All welcome.

‘A noisy heaven and a syncopated earth’ – the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music.

This year’s Said Lecture explores the soundscape of ‘modern times’, the musical and cultural revolution triggered by the worldwide recording of vernacular musics between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the world, igniting the first great battle over popular music, becoming the soundtrack of decolonisation and remaking our musical era.

Michael Denning is William R Kenan, Jr, Professor in American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015) and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004).