The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

How Do I Look? The Importance of Visual Analysis for Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education

The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

Helen Elizabeth Davies [+-]
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Helen Elizabeth Davies is Subject Leader of Popular Music Studies at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK. Her key research interests are popular music and gender, popular music visuals, music education, music in everyday life, and ethnographic research. She has published research into musicians in vocational popular music higher education and graduates working in the music industry, focusing on gender-related experiences and issues. Since 2019, she has carried out research with the organization UK Music on diversity in the UK music industry workforce for their biennial diversity report. She is currently writing a book on popular music visuals.

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Helen Davies writes about visual imagery, a relatively under-researched area of popular music and the creative industries. Central to the music business, visual content in promotional materials, packaging, live events, social media, and technology connect artists with their audience. Davies delves into visual analysis and its relationship to Popular Music Higher Education (PMHE). Using an “analytical toolkit” that considers musician persona, images, costuming, performance, and music video, Davies describes how students create visual content to accompany their musical practice and how such efforts promote multisensory pedagogy in vocationally focused coursework.

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Davies, Helen Elizabeth. How Do I Look? The Importance of Visual Analysis for Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education. The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 91-108 Sep 2024. ISBN 9781800505223. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=45320. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.45320. Sep 2024

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