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What, Like It's Hard?
What, Like It’s Hard? is the digital initiative and podcast that celebrates and explores the academic study of popular music. Conferences can be expensive to attend, especially for students, so this platform allows for a digital space to be created for students to discuss and share their research topics and interests while building a digital network of like-minded people. The podcast opens with a keynote series from professors in different faculties, from different universities around the world. The podcast is available for streaming over Spotify, ApplePodcasts, Anchor, or wherever you listen to your podcasts!
Podcasting since 2019 • 29 episodes
What, Like It's Hard?
Latest Episodes
Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Pop Culture.
Emily McConkey is a graduate student in English at the University of Ottawa. Over the last two years, she has served as the student researcher for the Christina Rossetti in Music digital archive and runs the archive’s Twitter account @CGRossett...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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I've Got A Babe, but Shall I Keep Him: Rhiannon Giddens and Modernist Nightmares of History.
Kevin Farrell is Associate Professor of English at Radford University, where he teaches courses in both composition and literature. His research interests include popular music, modernism, postmodernism, and Irish literature, particularly the f...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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1:02:27
Get Up and Go: DC Music, Youth Culture, and Community Formation, 1980-1983.
Alan Parkes is a PhD student in US history at the University of Delaware. He studies the impact of neo-liberalization on late-twentieth-century youth cultures. He is a member of California’s hardcore punk band Empty Eyes. In the early 1...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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59:13
Después de mis Nueve Noches: Bullerengue Song as Historical Evidence of the 1940s Maroon Caribbean in Colombia.
Manuel Garcia Orozco is a GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY®-award winner who has dedicated his career to producing musical documents that preserve cultures in resistance under his label Chaco World Music. As a composer/performer, he has been featured i...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:20:39
This One Tape Had All These Memories: Pop Music, Mixtapes and Young-Adult Fiction.
Dr Ben Screech is a Lecturer in English and Education at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, UK. His research specializes primarily on YA fiction, as well as pop culture for young people more generally. Prior to his current role, B...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:08:19