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Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon

BA., MA., M.Phil. PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer in Music

Lecturer in Music
Tower 1
Arts Concourse
University of Galway
E: ann-marie.hanlon@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Ann-Marie Hanlon (PhD, Newcastle) is a musicologist with specialisms in cultural theories of music, popular music and French modernism.

Following undergraduate studies in music and German at University College Cork, she completed an MA in Music and later a DPhil in Music at Newcastle University. At master's level she specialised in popular music theory and cultural theories of music. Her interdisciplinary doctoral research investigated the music and reception of the modernist French composer Erik Satie. This research, which was funded by an NUI Travelling Studentship award. Her PhD research included a visiting scholarship with the International Group for InterArt Research at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Her research in popular music focuses on the area of music and social change, and explores the ways in which music is utilised in a political sense in discourses concerning women's rights and within queer culture in Ireland and in the U.S.. She was the project lead of Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry (University of Galway, 2023), the first national study on how gender impacts musicians' day-to-day experiences on the island of Ireland. Her work can be found in a range of publications including in the books Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), Media Narratives in Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2021), Made in Ireland: Popular Music Studies (Routledge, 2020); and Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Research Interests

Cultural musicology & historiography in Western art music: specifically in relation to the life and works of Erik Satie and and his Parisian contemporaries (1888-1925)
Popular Music & Social Change in Ireland and the United States: the intersection of popular music with social movements, including feminist movements and the LGBTQ+ rights movements since the early 1970s.
The Irish Music Industry.
Education: teaching and learning music in the context of higher education.
Music and wellbeing.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	'Clubbing Criminals: The Hirschfeld Centre and the Emergence of Queer Club Culture in Dublin' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2022) 'Clubbing Criminals: The Hirschfeld Centre and the Emergence of Queer Club Culture in Dublin'. Irish Communications Review, 18 (1):26-42 [Details]
	(2021)	'Tes Slominski, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2021) 'Tes Slominski, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music'. Society for Musicology in Ireland. Journal, 16 (1):55-61 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'The Visual Toolbox of Feminist Musicians' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2023) 'The Visual Toolbox of Feminist Musicians' In: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Music and Art. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details]
	(2024)	'Music Festivals, Feminism and the Environment' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2024) 'Music Festivals, Feminism and the Environment' In: Sounding Empowerment: Essays on Music, Politics and Resistance. Edinburgh: Cambridge Scholars. [Details]
	(2021)	'Paid My Dues: Key Debates in the 1970¿s Feminist Music Press' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2021) 'Paid My Dues: Key Debates in the 1970¿s Feminist Music Press' In: Media Narratives in Popular Music. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details]
	(2015)	'Der Humor in der kunstlerischen Arbeit Erik Saties' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2015) 'Der Humor in der kunstlerischen Arbeit Erik Saties' In: Witty Art. Der Witz und seine Beziehung zu den Künsten. :155-178 Munich: Fink Verlag. [Details]
	(2020)	'Missing From the Record: Zrazy and Women's Music in Ireland' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2020) 'Missing From the Record: Zrazy and Women's Music in Ireland' In: Made in Ireland: Popular Music Studies. :67-78 London: Routledge. [Details]
	(2018)	'Erik Satie and the Interart Genre' Ann-Marie Hanlon (2018) 'Erik Satie and the Interart Genre' In: Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalisation of Art. :85-102 New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details]

Published Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	Gendered experiences of the Irish music industry report. Ann-Marie Hanlon (2023) Gendered experiences of the Irish music industry report. University of Galway, Galway. [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2014	RMA Grant	Royal Musical Association
2009	Travelling Doctoral Studentship	National University of Ireland
2009	SMI Grant	Society of Musicology in Ireland

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Society for Musicology in Ireland	Ordinary Member	01-SEP-09 / 31-DEC-22
	International Association for the Association of Popular Music	Ordinary Member	01-JAN-18 / 01-MAR-24

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Chairperson - International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (Ireland Branch)	Chair	03-MAR-23 / 03-MAR-25
	Secretary for ICTMD Irish Branch	Secretary	27-FEB-21 / 25-FEB-23

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2004	University College Cork	Bachelor of Music	Music
2013	Newcastle University	DPhil in Music	Music
2006	Newcastle University	MA in Music	Music
2003	University College Cork	Bachelor of Arts	Music & German
2021	Dundalk Institute of Technology	MA in Learning & Teaching	Teaching & learning in higher education

Languages

	Language
	French
	German

Reviews

	Journal	Role
	Journal Of Homosexuality	Reviewer
	Irish Communications Review	Editor
	Ethnomusicology Ireland	Reviewer

Teaching Interests

Teaching interests:
Musicology, especially 20th century musics
Culture, Society & Popular Music
Music Performance & musicianship
Music & Wellbeing
Musical Theatre
Writing about music, including music journalism
Music & Philosophy
Sociology of Music
Cultural Theories of Music, including feminist, queer theory, canon theory...
Research methodologies

Recent Postgraduate Students

	Graduation	Name	Degree	Primary Supervisor
	2023	Lauren Farquharson	PhD	Y
	2023	Grainne Duffy	PhD	Y

Modules Taught

Term/Year	Module Title	Module Code
Semester 1 & 2/ 2022	Music Extended Essay	MU40100
Semester 1/ 2022	Music Practice 2	MU2013
Semester 2/ 2022	Musical Theatre	MU2105
Semester 1 & 2/ 2022	Music Theory & Critical Listening	MU1103
Semester 1/ 2022	Writing About Music: Performance Analysis	MU4102
Semester 2/ 2022	Music Practice 3	MU4106

External Collaborators

Name	Organisation / Institute	Country	Description of Collaboration
Ann Werner	Uppsala University	SWEDEN	We collaborated on an ENLIGHT project to internationalise the curriculum, designing a new module on Popular Music and Power to be taught as part of the MA in Musicology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Melanie Schiller	Radboud University	NETHERLANDS	We collaborated on an ENLIGHT project to internationalise the curriculum, designing a new module on Popular Music and Power to be taught as part of the MA in Musicology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Dr Caroline O'Sullivan	Technial University Dublin	IRELAND	Co-edited a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Irish Communications Review (2022) on DIY musical cultures in Ireland.
Dr Georgina Hughes	Dundalk Institute of Technology	IRELAND	Dr Hughes was co-analyst for the project 'Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry'.