[ANPPOM-L] Ph D Studentship in the study of recordings

[Carlos Palombini]

Second posting: deadline for applications in two weeks' time.

Sheffield University and British Library Concordat / CHARM Studentship 
in the study of recordings

The Music Department of Sheffield University and the British Library 
invite applications for a full-time research studentship for three 
years, leading to a PhD, beginning in October 2006. The area of research 
will be the study classical music recordings made between 1925 and 1932, 
with a view to understanding the relationship between performance style 
and commercial priorities at a time of significant technological change 
and competition.

The period 1925 to 1932 is currently one of the research areas of CHARM 
(the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music) at Sheffield 
University, with particular reference to the study of the 
inter-relationship of commercial and cultural activities, as expressed 
by the sound recording industry at this time.

CHARM (the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research Centre for 
the History and Analysis of Recorded Music) was established on 1st April 
2004, supported by a substantial five-year grant from the United 
Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. A partnership between 
the University of Sheffield, King’s College, London, and Royal Holloway, 
London, CHARM’s aim is to promote the study of music as performance 
through a focus on recordings. Its activities include discographical 
projects, seminars and research projects such as this.



The research student will be jointly supervised by Eric Clarke at the 
University of Sheffield, and by Timothy Day at the British Library Sound 
Archive (BLSA), and will work alongside David Patmore, a CHARM research 
fellow based at Sheffield University. At both institutions he /she will 
receive appropriate training and support, and at the BLSA s/he will work 
in the office area of the Curator, Classical Music, having access to 
materials not available to readers.

The successful student will receive a UK/EU tuition fee waiver, a 
maintenance stipend (£12,000 in 2005-06), and a Research Training 
Support Grant of £500 per annum.

Applications, made to Sheffield University on the Sheffield University 
Postgraduate Research  application form (link here), should be received 
no later than Friday 31st March 2006. Applicants should meet the same 
qualification criteria as for any other research studentship, or should 
be able to demonstrate equivalent experience. Please include a statement 
explaining your suitability for this project, together with samples of 
your recent writing on music. In addition please indicate clearly that 
you are applying to study as part of the CHARM research group (section, 
C, question 13).

Further Enquiries

Specific questions may be addressed to Eric Clarke and/or Timothy Day: 
e.f.clarke em sheffield.ac.uk, Tim.Day em bl.uk.

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>