Fewer students, more words
Tomorrow is the first teaching day of the academic year, and for the first time ever, I only have postgraduate students. It’ll be the first time since I started teaching at universities (about this...
View ArticleNew book – The 360 Deal
A collection of genuinely helpful advice to people starting out in the music industry. After several months of sending emails to friends and colleagues across the music industries, gathering articles...
View ArticleHigh praise with high stress
I finally received feedback on my book Radio in the Digital Age from the external reviewers. The publisher has sent me the comments and suggestions from anonymous peers, whose advice can range from...
View ArticleKindling
Apparently, the Japanese have a word for buying books and leaving them to pile up unread. It’s ‘tsondoku‘. I’m certainly guilty of that. This week, I finally bought a Kindle. I’ve wanted one for a...
View ArticleFinishing touches on the radio book
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with a copy editor by the name of Manuela on preparing my Radio in the Digital Age book for print. She’s been brilliant – making suggestions, corrections and...
View ArticleRadio in the Digital Age is out!
Finally, my book Radio in the Digital Age has been published and it’s available in shops and online retailers. I thought it would make sense to post about that here and let you know. Buy it here or get...
View ArticleThankfully…
Despite being pretty much in a permanent state of overwhelming gratitude for all the incredible people and experiences in my life, I thought I’d stop and commemorate the whole Thanksgiving thing that...
View ArticleThe right next song
For the past few months, on and off – more off than on, but with at least some degree of consistency – I’ve been working on my next book. So far, it’s pretty much just a collection of notes, thoughts,...
View ArticleKeeping it Reel
So I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about the media formats on which we compile and listen to music – tapes, CDs, iTunes playlists and so on – and how the various affordances of each of those...
View ArticleClaybourne in print
An academic working in the UK was in touch several years back because she was planning to include an analysis of a sci-fi / thriller / soap opera radio series I made in the late 90s in her PhD. She...
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