Dr Laura Watson
@lauracwatson
Musicologist/Associate Professor, Maynooth University | author Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (2019); coeditor Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019); coeditor Women and Music in Ireland (2022) | Sounding the Feminists | Memoirs | she/her
I enjoyed speaking about Sinéad O'Connor at Queen's University, Belfast as part of the SMI-RMA-EADH conference yesterday.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... Happy to have a chapter in this new edited collection on #IrishComposer Elizabeth #Maconchy! ELIZABETH MACONCHY IN CONTEXT ed. Justin Vickers & Lucy Walker, Cambridge University Press, is out now. #spéirghorm #spéirgorm @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social
A friend just spotted our book, Women and Music in Ireland, next to Sinéad O'Connor's memoir in Charlie Byrne's bookshop in Galway!
Two good things in one day! Just been alerted to another very recent and generous review of Women and Music in Ireland, this time by Denise Neary, published in Music and Letters. academic-oup-com.may.idm.oclc.org/.../4/672/82... #musicology #womeninmusic #speirghorm @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Another nice review of Women and Music in Ireland. Review by Anne-Marie O'Farrell just published in the JSMI, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. jsmi.musicologyireland.ie/index.php/jo... #womeninmusic #musicology #speirghorm #rhodacoghill
From my experience over the last couple of weeks, Australia, especially Melbourne, seems much more affordable and liveable than Ireland. The supermarket and eating out cost way less than at home and the quality of food is superb. Public transport is excellent too. Can see why people stay here.
Currently jetlagged in Melbourne, Australia but loving the culture, Christmas sun, friendly people, and some of the tastiest food and coffee I've ever had. And thrilled to see my youngest sister again 💗
All welcome to my talk on feminism and music in Ireland, at the Marxism Festival in UCD tomorrow afternoon. It'll be way less stressful than watching Ireland play Hungary!
A glimpse of the stunning scenery in North Wales: we stayed in Nant Gwrtheyrn first and then Port Meirion, the Italian-style village where The Prisoner was filmed in the 1960s. Surreal to stay in #PortMeirion after having watched #ThePrisoner!
Say it loud, say it clear: refugees are welcome here. #Dublin #speirgorm
Minister for Higher Education has laudable goals, but disappointing to read a statement that plays down research for its own sake: 'To be clear, this is not about funding science for its own sake...research also drives massive economic growth.' No mention of the humanities either.
#Kylie book arrived at last! Happy to have contributed a chapter on her music and pop persona in the 1980s. #locomotion #lovers #ishouldbesolucky #musicology
Heartened by praise for our book Women and Music in Ireland, discussed by Prof. Susan Wollenberg in her recent review-article for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. DOI:10.1017/rma.2024.16 @royalmusical.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social #musicology #speirgorm
Launching this Thursday! KYLIE MINOGUE: CRITICAL INSIGHTS INTO POP MUSIC AND MEDIA CELEBRITY has just been published. I contributed a chapter about Kylie's construction of girlhood in her 1980s pop. Join us in Maynooth or on Zoom. @muahi.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kylie-min... #kylieminogue
I really enjoyed giving a guest lecture at TCD today, discussing protest music and the #Repeal #prochoice movement in Ireland. Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting.
This Tuesday 3 December at 12.00, I'm giving a guest lecture at the Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social @sminews1.bsky.social. I'll discuss an aspect of my research on music and #Repeal #prochoice abortion activism. All welcome. #Musicology @muahi.bsky.social