Catastrophe : Opportunity

Patrick Henderson surveys Jamaican pop music from the 1950s to the present day, playing and discussing examples of mento, ska, reggae and dancehall and considering their cultural significance. Patrick Henderson is a doctoral student in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the Univer…

Philip Hoare will speak on the subject of his new book The Sea Inside, a personal memoir and travelogue that reflects his rediscovery of the vast wilderness of the sea, its myths, and its creatures - from Southampton to the Azores Archipelago. Philip Hoare is a writer, cultural historian, broadcas…

The world's foremost exponent of the pianola, and University of Nottingham alumnus, plays a concert inside Gallery 2 using the pianola which is part of Simon Starling's work "Red, Green, Blue, Loom Music". The concert will include Stravinsky's Rites of Spring. Rex Lawson was born in Bromley, Kent…

Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Lecturer in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham Nick Heffernan introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multi…