Professor and former Head of Music at @livuni. Arts Society Accredited Lecturer. Visiting Prof at @openuniversity. Director of @drjazzcheshcats Big Band. Mummy.
Joined September 2012
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14 Nov 2024
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14 Nov 2024
Shortly I'll be abandoning X - please follow me on @bluesky ctackley.bsky.social
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13 Nov 2024
En route to Chicago. It would be great to see you at 9am on Sunday at the 'Dance Scenes: Defining Self and Community through Dance' session - it's in the new-style format so anticipating plenty of lively discussion! #ams24
6 Nov 2024
2. American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago - Sunday 17th November 9am #ams24
'Tea for Two': Transatlanticism in the music of the British Dance Bands
I hope to see you there!
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6 Nov 2024
I've got two talks coming up on my British dance band project.
1. City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society on Tuesday 19th November, 7pm; if you're not a member and you'd like to come along please let me know.
The Music of the British Dance Bands
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6 Nov 2024
2. American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago - Sunday 17th November 9am #ams24
'Tea for Two': Transatlanticism in the music of the British Dance Bands
I hope to see you there!
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4 Nov 2024
Marvellous @TPExpressTrains @TPEassist train from ncl cancelled at 15 mins notice. I could have arranged to get an earlier one if I had known. Very frustrating.
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10 Sep 2024
Discounted copies of my Benny Goodman book - if you alresdy have it, buy the others!!
10 Sep 2024
Save on music titles for the @royalmusical’s annual conference.
Access a 30% discount on these books by @Ctackley, @jwilli7 and @jefftoddtiton with code EXRMA-24 now: oxford.ly/3AHRUqY
ALT The book covers for 'Brithop', 'Sounds, Ecologies, Musics' and 'Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert', all available with a 30% discount with code EXRMA-24
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6 Sep 2024
My wonderful Leverhulme Trust Fellowship has now ended but I am fortunate in having a further year of support from University of Liverpool to finish the book.
6 Dec 2021
Very happy and grateful to have been awarded a @LeverhulmeTrust Major Research Fellowship to write a book on British Dance Bands. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, especially my referees and colleagues in the @livuni @sotauol #Music Department.
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6 Sep 2024
I am looking forward to presenting my British dance band research at a few events this Autumn/Fall:
- @royalmusical Annual Conference - Wed 11th Sept 1630
- Research Seminar @LivUni Tues 1st Oct (if you are not a member of the Uni and would like to come along please let me know)
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6 Sep 2024
Research Seminar at University of Newcastle Wednesday 2nd October
- American Musicological Society Annual Meeting - Sunday 17th November 9am
I'd love to see you there!
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Catherine Tackley retweeted
6 Sep 2024
Learn more about the precedents for Benny Goodman’s 1938 concert – ‘the first concert of swing music in the history of Carnegie Hall’ – in this chapter by @Ctackley.
oxford.ly/3MfOUod
ALT Cover of 'Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert' by Catherine Tackley, and information about the Royal Music Association's conference taking place 11th-13th september.
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21 Jun 2024
Dear @AvantiWestCoast - why are there no advance fare tickets at all on Sunday 11th August, eus-man? Seems odd.
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19 Mar 2024
Why does this very busy @AvantiWestCoast service from Euston to Birmingham only have five carriages (four standard class)? Bonkers.
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16 Jan 2024
Please could you put some grit on the steps to the platforms at Whitefield, @BeeNetwork ? Accidents are waiting to happen.
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2 Jan 2024
Happy New Year! As part of my project on British dance bands, I would love to interview @_DaveArch and/or a producer from @bbcstrictly . Any help to contact the team would be v gratefully received.
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2 Jan 2024
I'm interested in the processes of selecting and arranging the music rather than celebrity gossip!
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9 Dec 2023
Credit to the violinist on 'Fit as a Fiddle' @SCDband - great banjo too.
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Catherine Tackley retweeted
7 Dec 2023
Just 219 students recruited to music PG ITT courses against a target of 790. 27% of target. Hope restoration of bursary will improve this dire situation this year.
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Catherine Tackley retweeted
7 Dec 2023
🚨 Deadline News! 🚨
We have extended the deadline for submissions for next year's annual conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the RMA, with a new date of Friday 12 January. Please share!
rma150.wordpress.com/callfor…
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