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Introducing Who I am   Qualifications, Career History  and What I Do Now! Journalism: Print and broadcast; work for visiting arts and British Council Broadcast Journalism Writing, editing; academic productions Exhibition curating; TV research, production and script work; conference organisation Academic work: lecturing; teaching;teaching; national and international conference papers CD compilations, tour management, Djing;AND things I like to do when not working SPIRITUAL LIFE MUSICIANS I HAVE INTERVIEWED SINCE 1973 REFEREES & LINKS
MY FIRST WRITING MACHINE – an Olivetti
[not so much a hat just the first machine I wrote on – a classic Olivetti portable which I still keep in a cupboard, bought in Oxford 1974 to replace my first one which I left behind in Temuco, Chile following 1973 coup d'état]

Writing, Editing; Academic Work

1997-99 Editor, Ethnomusicology Team, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan 2000)

Popular Music Journal (Cambridge University Press):
Since 1988 I have been a member of the Editorial Board - first women to be invited onto the board.
I was Book Reviews Editor between 2003 and 2010. As well as co-editing General Issues like other members of the board I have worked on General Issues and ten Special Issues which I initiated with the Music of Latin America issue in 1987.

Popular Music (CUP): as well as general issues, I initiated the ‘special issues’ and have edited a number notably

2012 Music And Age forthcoming
2011 Music of Latin America, Spain and Portugal
2009 General Issue
2006 25/3 Music and Dance
2000 19/1 Music and Place
1996 15/3 Music of the Middle East
1994 13/3 Music of Australia and New Zealand
1991 10/2 Issue for John Blacking
1990 9/1 Radio
1989 8/3 Music of Africa
1987 6/2 Music of Latin America

Academic Publications

2010 Ports of Call: an ethnographic analysis of music programmes on the migration of people, musicians, genres and instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995, forthcoming in Migrating Music eds Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, Routledge
2010 Recording the Revolution: Music Studios in Cuba, Jan Fairley and Alexandrine Fournier, forthcoming in The Art of Record Production, eds Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski Thomas
2009 The Rejuvenating Power of the Buena Vista Social Club in SAMPLES, Online-Publikationen des Arbeitskreis Studium Popularer Musik e. V. (ASPM) ed. Von Appen et al, Jargang 8 (2009) www.aspm-samples.de/Samples8/fairley/pdf
2007 ‘Como hacer el amor con ropa’ (How To Make Love With Your Clothes On): dancing regeton and gender in Cuba, in Reading Reggaeton, Ed. Rivera, Pacini-Hernández and Marshall, Duke University Press, pp 280-294
2006 Dancing back to front: regeton sexuality, gender and transnationalism in Cuba, Popular Music 25/3, 2006 (Special Issue Music and Dance), pp 471-488
2005 Revised chapters on Flamenco, Music of Spain, Cuban Music, Chilean Music, Andean Music, Latin American 'New Song', for The Rough Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin, Vols I and II.
2004 “‘Ay Díos, Ampárame’ (O God, Protect Me): Music in Cuba during the 1990s, the
‘Special Period,
” in Island Musics, ed. Kevin Dawe, Berg 2004, pp. 77-99
2001 'World Music', The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Pop and Rock, ed. S. Frith & J. Street, CUP 2001, pp 272-289
2001 "Qué vista da la Buena Vista?" For Casa de las Americas journal: Globalization and Music, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba (forthcoming…)
2000 New and revised chapters on Flamenco, The Music of Spain, The Music of Cuba, Andean Music, Chilean Music, Latin American 'New Song', for The Rough Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin, vols. I and II and for individual guides
2001 'Chilean New Song' in Censorship: An International Encyclopaedia, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Ed. D Jones (forthcoming 2001)
1994 Chapters on Flamenco, Cuban Music, Andean Music, Latin American 'New Song' for The Rough Guide to World Music. Rough Guides/Penguin
1994 Essay Review 'Rockin'the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements', Ed Reebee Garofolo. Boston, in Popular Music 1994 Vol.13/1.
1992 Silvio Rodríguez: Music and Revolution in Cuba - en gira por la patria - el reparador de sueños. Vol.1. 1789-1989 Musique, Histoire, Democracie, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, pp 249-263, Paris.
1992 Essay review: The Power and Poetry of Song by R. Pring-Mill, Popular Music 11/3 October 1992, pp 365-371.
1991 Member International Editorial Board, World Beat, House Journal IASPM, Berlin.
1991 Essay review: Brazil, Popular Music 10/2, May 1991, pp 231-237.
1990 'The Blind Leading the Blind, Changing Perceptions of Traditional Music: The Case of the Peruvian Ayllu Sulca', Proceedings of the International Symposium Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and Cultural Policy, The World of Music Journal, UNESCO/IICMSD. Ed, International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation in co-operation with the Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung Preussischert Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
1989 'New Song: Music and Politics in Latin America', in Rhythms of the World, BBC Books, Ed. F. Hanly & T. May pp 88-97.
1989 Selected discography of popular music from Africa, Popular Music 8/3, CUP, pp 311-317.
1989 'Out of the Archive and Into the World of Music', Popular Music 8/1, CUP, pp 101-106.
1989 'Analysing Performance: Narrative and Ideology in Concerts by Karaxú! (Chile)', Popular Music 8/1, CUP, pp 1-30.
1988 'Alive and Performing in Latin America', Popular Music 7/1, pp 105-111.
1986 'Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Popular Music with particular reference to Chile and to nueva canción', in Popular Music 5, pp 305-356.
1984 La Nueva Canción Latinoamericana in Bulletin of Latin American Research 3/2. pp 103-15.
1983 Karaxú! and Incantation: when does 'folk' music become 'popular'? in Popular Music Perspectives 2; paper from 2nd Conference on Popular Music Studies, Reggio Emilia, pp 278-286.
1983 Towards a semiological analysis of musical performance, in Studies in Traditional Music and Dance 11, ed. N.Webber, Edinburgh. International Council for Traditional Music, pp 44-54.
1977 Chilean Song 1960-76, Latin American Studies, Oxford Microform Publications.


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