Ann-Marie Hanlon

Ann-Marie Hanlon (PhD, Newcastle) is a musicologist with specialisms in cultural theories of music, popular music and French modernism. Following undergraduate studies in Music and German at University College Cork, she completed an MA in Music and later a DPhil in Music at Newcastle University. At masters level she specialised in popular music theory and cultural theories of music. Her interdisciplinary doctoral research investigated the music and reception of the modernist French composer Erik Satie. This research, which was funded by an NUI Travelling Studentship Award. Her PhD research included a visiting scholarship with the International Group for InterArt Research at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Her research in popular music focuses on the area of music and social change, and explores the ways in which music is utilised in a political sense in discourses concerning women's rights and within queer culture in Ireland and in the U.S.. She was the project lead of Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry (University of Galway, 2023), the first national study on how gender impacts musicians day-to-day experiences on the island of Ireland. Her work can be found in a range of publications including in the books Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), Media Narratives in Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2021), Made in Ireland: Popular Music Studies (Routledge, 2020); and Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Cultural musicology; historiography in Western art music: specifically in relation to the life and works of Erik Satie and and his Parisian contemporaries (1888-1925); Popular Music; Social Change in Ireland and the United States: the intersection of popular music with social movements, including feminist movements and the LGBTQ+ rights movements since the early 1970s.The Irish Music Industry. Education: teaching and learning musicians the context of higher education. Music and wellbeing.

Teaching interests: Musicology, especially 20th century musics; Culture & Society; Popular Music; Music Performance; Musicianship; Music and Wellbeing; Musical Theatre; Philosophy and Sociology of Music; Cultural Theories of Music (including feminist, queer theory, canon theory); Research methodologies.