I am a second-year PhD student in the School of Media at BCU. My research project is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of popular music cultures, drawing from the fields of media studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and history, as well as over a decade’s experience as a professional musician in the UK reggae scene.

Through a framework of five commericial recordings significant to reggae’s development, I interrrogate the myths surrounding the ‘golden age’ period of the genre through conventional historical analysis, and through a novel methodology that combines ethnomusicology and discourse analysis as a way of understanding the past.