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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
 
researcher
 

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 Subject / Desc
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'.