Registration is now open for Everyday Music Scenes: Pubs, Clubs and ‘Stutes

14th-15th April 2025

This Royal Musical Association (RMA) Study Day will take place at Newcastle University and surrounding venues, 14th-15th April 2025. The schedule runs from early afternoon on the 14th to 6pm on the 15th. A ‘keynote with a twist’ will be delivered by Pete Brown, award-winning author, social historian and cultural commentator.

Back in 1957, Richard Hoggart highlighted ‘sing-songs and concerts in the pubs and clubs’ as the most indicative of working-class music tastes. Yet the everyday music scenes of familiar songs and/or communal singalongs, particularly around working men’s clubs, have been conspicuously absent from the worlds of musicology, ethnomusicology and popular music studies. This study day, supported by the RMA (Royal Musical Association), intends to stimulate challenging conversations about this research gap and explore rich avenues for the study of music in pubs, clubs and similar spaces of everyday, communal music experiences.

Instead of a conference dinner, attendees are invited to come along to the oldest ‘still in its original venue’ folk club in the UK. Entry is funded by the study day(s).

Attendance at Everyday Music Scenes is free. Please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/iUhWDzWa2e

Organising Committee:

Isabel Thomas (Newcastle University)

Nuria Bonet (University of Plymouth)

Nyle Bevan-Clarke (University of Southampton)

Thanks to the RMA and Maureen Wolloshin for their support.