Royal Musical Association ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Round Table Panel at the Royal Musical Association. (from left to right, Dr Michelle Philips (RNCM), Dr Matthew Sergeant (Bath Spa University), Dr Lauren Redhead (Goldsmiths University, London), Dr Luke Jones (DNEP, UoM), Abigail Conner (Philosophy, UoM).

                                                                                                                                                              Dr Luke Jones was an invited member on a round table panel at the 55th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association. The conference was held at the Royal Northern College of Music, 11-13th September 2019. The theme of the session was Music and Time Psychology: Philosophy and Practise.


The panel was chaired by Dr Michelle Phillips (RNCM), and the other panel members were Abigail Conner (Philosophy, University of Manchester), Dr Lauren Redhead (Musicology, Goldsmiths University, London), Dr Matthew Sergeant (Composer and Lecturer, Bath Spa University, UK), Dr Joel Smith (Philosophy, University of Manchester).


Each panel member was asked to reflect on the topics of memory, duration, the present, subjective and objective, before opening to questions from the audience. The members of the panel are currently working on a book titled Music and Time: Psychology, Philosophy and Practice, to be published by Boydell & Brewer.

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