Dr. Steve Sweeney-Turner

Musicologist, Freelance

R e s e a r c h  I n t e r e s t s :

Critical Musicology (especially Post-Structuralist philosophy and music); Scottish Studies/Celtic Studies; The aesthetics & analysis of Popular Music; Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Theory; The Avant-Garde and its relation to theories of Modernism and Postmodernism.

W e b  A c t i v i t i e s :

General Editor of Celtic Cultural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal.

Co-Editor, Ogmios Press.

Webmaster, CyberStudia.

Personal sites: CyberScotia.

S e l e c t e d  P o p u l a r  P u b l i c a t i o n s

"The Political Parlour: Identity and Ideology in C19th Scottish National Song" - in Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945, ed. Michael Murphy & Harry White, (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001).

"The Pastoral Celt: Images of the Gael in Lowland Scots Song" - Celtic Cultural Studies, 1999.

"Pagan Airts: Reading Critical Perspectives on the Songs of Burns and Tannahill" - in Critical Essays on Burns, ed. Carol McGuirk (New York: G.K. Hall, 1998).

"Borderlines: Bilingual Terrain in Scottish Song" - in The Place of Music: Music, Space, and the Production of Place, ed. Leyshon, Matless, Revill (New York: Guildford Press, 1998).

"Pulp Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of the Popular" - in Critical Musicology Journal, March 1997.

"Dictated by Tradition? - Queen's Innuendo and the Mercurial Case of Farookh Bulsara" - in Popular Musicology Quarterly, 2, Spring 1995.

"Trivial Pursuits? - Taking Popular Music Seriously" - The Musical Times, April 1994.

O t h e r  A c a d e m i c  P o s t s :

2001: Part-Time IT Tutor, EUS Microbeacon.

2000-2001: Lectureship in Popular Music at the University of the Highlands & Islands.

1998-2000: Lectureship at Leeds University.

1995-98: Research Fellowship at Leeds University, initially for two years, extended for a third.

1996: Open University Course Tutor - A210: Approaching Literature (Region 02).

1995: Part-time lecturing at Portsmouth University: (a) Cultural Studies; (b) Historical & Theoretical Studies.

1995: Open University Course Tutor - A214: Understanding Music: Elements, Techniques and Styles (Region 02).

1992-93: Lecturer in Popular Music at Salford University.