• The Silent Film Shortage: The Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association and the Coming of Sound, 1928-29 

  Sibanda, Nyasha (Article)
• When Britannia Ruled the Sound Waves: Britain’s Transition to Sound in its European Context 

  Brown, Geoff (Article)
• ‘Have You a Happy Voice?’ Women’s voices and the talkie revolution in Britain 1929-1932 

  Porter, Laraine (Article)
• Music, gender and the feminisation of British silent cinema 1909-1929 

  Porter, Laraine (Book chapter)
• Value transformation in the lets play gaming sub-culture 

  Harwood, Tracy ; Boomer, Jason ; Garry, Tony (Article)

  Let’s play is a globally significant phenomenon in creative online content generation that has evolved from gaming culture. Little is understood about the behavior and motivations of community participants to generate ...
• Sexual violence and free speech in popular music 

  Hill, R.L. ; Savigny, Heather (Article)

  This article re-examines the use of arguments in favour of free speech when faced with difficult subjects in music, such as sexual violence against women. We present a new perspective on the 1985 US Senate Hearing on ...
• Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture in Comedy and the Politics of Representation 

  Lee, J. (Book chapter)

  This piece examines the relationship between Nazism and comedy in popular culture, from film and television, to fashion and YouTube. Does comedy in this context serve a useful political purpose, or does it just reassert ...
• Are You Kidding? Reassessing morality, sexuality and desire in 'Kids' 

  Lee, J. (Article)

  Following the 25th anniversary of the making of this controversial film, this article for Film International examines the legacy of the 1995 film 'Kids', especially in relation to its young screenwriter Harmony Korine. ...
• Reconstructing Computer Music Works Ethos and Praxis 

  Dahan, Kevin (Conference / Other)

  Computer Music is now 60 years old. During the last six decades, many systems – hardware and software – have been developed, used and abused to create musical works. Most of the older hardware is now decommissioned or in ...
• (Re)discovering Sounds of CCRMA - Towards Computer Music Preservation 

  Dahan, Kevin (Conference)

  Sixty years after the initial experiments on digital sound synthesis, we are now facing several problems regarding the preservation of computer music artefacts. The usual practice has been to safeguard the end product - ...
• Dance Performance and Virtual Reality - an investigation of current practice and a suggested tool for analysis. 

  Smith, Sophy (Article)

  The relationship between performance and VR technologies has been ongoing since the initial development of VR in the 1980s. Much has been written about the flurry of experimentation in VR and performance during the 1990s, ...
• Hearing triangles: perceptual clarity, opacity, and symmetry of spectrotemporal sound shapes 

  Lembke, Sven-Amin (Article)

  In electroacoustic music, the spectromorphological approach commonly employs analogies to non-sonic phenomena like shapes, gestures, or textures. In acoustical terms, sound shapes can concern simple geometries on the ...
• Fifty Years of British Music video: Introduction 

  Caston, Emily ; Smith, Justin (Article)
• Gendered Patterns of Discrimination in the Creative Industries 

  Ball, Vicky ; Porter, Laraine (Article)
• The Ghetto Bastard: A Portable Noise Instrument. 

  Spowage, Neal (Conference)

  Due to the accelerating development of ‘rapidly to become redundant’ technologies, there is a growing mountain of perfectly serviceable discarded electronic devices hiding quietly at the bottom of almost every domestic ...
• Community Media and Digital Inclusion 

  Watson, Rob (Conference)

  This civic engagement model is comprehensibly embedded in the ethos of the community media move-ment, but the role of community media, however, tends not to be recognised within state and govern-ment-led community development ...
• High Street: a virtual community supporting scenario-based teaching and learning in Nursing and Midwifery 

  Weale, Robert (Presentation)

  Demonstration of an online resource created to enhance the use of scenario-based learning appropaches and resources in the undergraduate programme for Nursing and Midwifery at De Montfort University
• Exploring the Further Education (FE) to Higher Education (HE) transition in Creative Music Technology through the expectations and experiences of students and staff 

  Weale, Robert (Presentation)

  A presentation of the raison d'être and findings of a research project which sought to reveal the key problematic areas with respect to academic study, as identified by both students and academic staff in the transition ...
• Community Media Association UK Government Consultation on Civic Engagement 

  Watson, Rob (Working Paper)

  The civic engagement model is embedded in the ethos of the community media movement, but the role of community media tends not to be recognised within government-led community development policies and practices, at a local, ...
• Improving Stability of Electronically Controlled Pressure 1 Reducing Valves 

  Tomasz Janus ; Bogumil Ulanicki (Article)

  9 This paper explains the root cause of instabilities which tend to arise in pressure reducing 10 valves (PRVs) under low flow conditions. It was found that the loss of stability in PRVs is a direct 11 result of an increase ...

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