Full Member of Research Centre: Popular Music
From January 2010 to present.
Dr Timothy Wise
 | School of Media, Music and Performance, Adelphi Building, Peru Street, Salford, Greater Manchester, M3 6EQ. |
 | T.E.Wise@salford.ac.uk |
 | 0161-295-6075 |
Key Memberships
Profile Summary
Key interests: Musicology, Popular Music, Yodelling, Jimmie Rodgers, Music semiotics, Popular Music History, Music in Mass Media, Tin Pan Alley, Blackface Minstrelsy, Blues, Music in American football
Key Qualifications
2005
PhD Music (from University of Liverpool).
Thesis title: Yodelling in American Popular Music
2000
MA Popular Music Studies (from University of Liverpool).
1991
HND Musical Instrument Technology - Piano (from City of London Polytechnic).
1983
MA Teaching English as a Foreign Language (from University of North Texas).
1981
MA English Literature (from University of North Texas).
1977
BA English (from University of North Texas).
Key Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2013
Jan
Encyclopedia Entries
Exhibitions
Key Presence
Conference Organisation
2011
Jun
Making Things Whole Again: the Take That Reunion (University of Salford, United Kingdom, June 2011).
2009
Oct
Television and Popular Culture Behind the Wall: Consumption, adaption and transformation of patterns of western popular culture in East Germany (University of Salford, United Kingdom, October 2009).
Conference Presentations
2010
Sep
Jimmie Rodgers and the Semiosis of the Hillbilly Yodel (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, September 2010).
2009
Apr
Jimmie Rodgers and the Hillbilly Yodel (International Country Music Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, April 2009).
2007
Oct
Beguines in Outer Space: Dance Rhythms and Affect in Mass-Mediated Popular Music (Symposium on Popular Music and Dance, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, October 2007).
2006
Sep
Musemes, Masculinity and Myth: Popular Music in American Football Broadcasting (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 2006).
2004
Jul
American Football and Popular Music (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Limerick, Ireland, July 2004).
2003
Jun
Swississippi: the semiotic transformation of the yodel (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 2003).
Invited Papers and Lectures
2011
Jul
Mountains, Music and Mystique: Some Ways of Understanding the Popularity of the Sound of Music (University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, July 2011).
2011
Feb
The Vicissitudes of a Musical Sign: How the Yodel Became a Joke (John Bird Lecture, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom, February 2011).
2009
Dec
How the Yodel Became a Joke (Popular Music Research Series Seminar, University of Salford, United Kingdom, December 2009).