NEWS: Back Together – 'A Refreshed Foundations of House'
We are back! One might even suggest, like King Bee circa 1990 that we’re ‘back by dope demand’.
There has been a substantial delay in updating this project page. It bears repeating that this project is currently self-funded, although hopefully soon there will be some exciting developments to report in that arena. The delay was caused primarily by need to refocus my efforts on completing my PhD, which was approved in early January. However, as you’ll have seen, in the interim there were a few updates of note, particularly the in memoriam mini series, a wonderful piece by guest author Hadley Stewart celebrating (and questioning) the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and some more public-facing research published through Norient Space.
Recently, I have been able to pour renewed energy into this project. There are a few worthwhile developments and upcoming items that I would draw your attention to:
The project Research Aims have been expanded, and 5 distinct research strands have been identified. Whilst not exhaustive, the new overall aim and research strands cover the majority of the research that the project has drifted into after identifying a satisfactory answer to the original ‘question’ of religious iconography in house (see ‘…And House Music Was Born’).
A new Authors page has been created including short bio’s and links to contributing authors.
As a consequence of the ‘Supporting Research’ strand identified during this project overhaul, a new series of freely available bibtex resources are available. These resources are currently in beta, but demonstrate the concept well. It is planned that the first official release of these resources will be available by the end of April.
In collaboration with Prof John Schofield, a new co-edited collection will be released on April 14th. A post about this will go live when the text is available, including access to a preprint of the relevant chapters.
A general redesign of the site has happened, making the visual identity more consistent with the various live and online outputs.
Until the 14th of April, and the release of the new edited collection, why not have an explore of the redesign and the new resources available.
