Welcome to Songs and Objects, a space for exploring connections between music and materiality.
I write about the ways that songs connect to the object world: how songs bring evocative objects to life; how songs become evocative objects that accompany lifetimes; how songs survive by attaching themselves to other objects.
You can get a sense of what I’m aiming to cover here by looking at my first post, ‘Fascinations’. Another good place to start is ‘A Song for Every Season’, from January 2024.
Please dive in and explore and, if this looks like something you’d like to help build, please consider subscribing to get regular updates and full access to the newsletter and website. And please let me know what you think via the comments on each post.
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Writer, teacher and music researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Author of books including Fado and the Place of Longing, The Late Voice, Nina Simone, The Sound of Nonsense and DJs do Guetto.