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DAVE ROBB
Queen's University Belfast

Dave Robb is a Reader in Music at Queen’s University Belfast. His research has focussed generally on the role of musical forms of protest in German history going back to 1848. Completing his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1995 he was a post-doctoral tutor in Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt University in Berlin before being appointed to German Studies at Queen’s in 1999. His first book Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens. Das Liedertheater Wenzel and Mensching was published in Berlin in 1998. He was editor and main author of Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s (2007) and co-author of Songs for a Revolution. The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany with Eckhard John (2020). This book stemmed from a British Academy and AHRC/DFG-funded online research project with the University of Freiburg (2008-12). He is currently the holder of an AHRC Fellowship on ‘The Political Songs of Gerhard Gundermann in an East German and International Context’. 

As well as researching the unpublished work of Gundermann in East German archives, the project has involved the translation of this singer’s songs into English for a new CD. This will be a follow-up to the Gundermanns Lieder in Europa album Dave recorded with other European artists in 2019. As a songwriter and bouzouki player, he has released solo albums (see Spotify/Amazon), performed at international festivals, and toured with artists such as the Proclaimers. Dave was also an original member of the Scottish folk group Rua.

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Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis
IOANNIS TSIOULAKIS
Queen's University Belfast

Ioannis Tsioulakis is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, at Queen’s University Belfast. He has previously lectured in ethnomusicology at University College Cork and University College Dublin. Ioannis completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Following this, he specialised in ethnomusicology and social anthropology, completing his MA (2006) and PhD (2011) at Queen’s University Belfast. Ioannis’s first monograph, Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry was published by Routledge in 2020. The book looks at the diverse socio-cultural worlds of music-making in the Greek capital with an emphasis on precarity and economic austerity.

Ioannis's research has also focused on cosmopolitan aspirations among local music practitioners and the way that they affect social relations, markets of musical labour, and discourses of value and aesthetics in popular music. Ioannis is currently conducting research on the impact of Covid-19 on performing artists, with a number of publications and collaborative projects under development (see a recent open-access article here, a co-written piece with Dr Ali FitzGibbon can be found here and a piece for The Conversation here). Ioannis has also worked extensively as a professional musician (pianist, arranger and composer) and a music teacher. He is a founding member of the Greek band Checkmate in Two Flats with whom he often records and performs in Greece and abroad.

 

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For further information on the conference contact Dave (d.robb@qub.ac.uk) or Ioannis (i.tsioulakis@qub.ac.uk)

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