
Dr Stephen Millar
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- millars3@cardiff.ac.uk
- Room 0.17, 33-37 Heol Corbett, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EB
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I am currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based in the School of Music. My academic work concentrates on the interconnection between music and politics, the aesthetics of ideology, and how this is transmitted through popular culture. I am interested in community music-making and engagement; music, health, and wellbeing; debates around cultural appropriation; state censorship; and the use of music in conflict, particularly in Northern Ireland.
I have written articles on topics ranging from music and post-colonial struggle, to the censorship of football chants, and politicians’ appropriation of popular culture, which have been published in a broad range of academic journals, including the British Journal of Music Education, Health and Social Care in the Community, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Music & Politics, Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, and Scottish Affairs.
Bywgraffiad
Education
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
British Forum for Ethnomusicology
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Council for Traditional Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
2018–Present: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cardiff University.
2017–2018: Postdoctoral Fellow and Lead Researcher on COOL Music, Glasgow Caledonian University.
2017: Associate Lecturer, University College Dublin.
2016–2017: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Limerick.
2015–2017: Associate Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast.
2014–2015: Research Assistant, University of Stirling.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
2020: 'Rebel Songs'. Drivetime, RTÉ Radio 1.
2019: ‘Rebel Songs: Music, Peace and Conflict Beyond the Troubles’. Mitchell Institute Speaker Series, Queen’s University Belfast.
2019: ‘From Belfast to the Somme (and back again): Legitimising Loyalist Paramilitaries through Political Song’. Music Department Seminar Series, University of Oxford.
2019: ‘The Role of Music Scholarship in a Post-Truth World’. International Council of Traditional Music, Ireland. University College Dublin.
2018: ‘“COOL Music”: A Bottom-Up Music Intervention for Hard-to-Reach Young People in Scotland’. Glasgow Science Festival. Glasgow Caledonian University.
2017: ‘Music, Sport, and Freedom of Expression’. Sectarianism and its Relation to Hate Crime. Northern Ireland Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition. Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast.
2015: ‘Let the People Sing? Irish Rebel Songs, Sectarianism, and Scotland’s Offensive Behaviour Act’. Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
2015: ‘Performing Protest’. Local Musicking in Cross-Cultural Perspective Research Group, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast.
2013: ‘Catholic Alterity? Music, Nationalism, and Sectarianism in Scotland’. AHRC/BBC Collaborative Workshop on Scottish Identity, BBC Broadcasting House, London.
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
2018–Present: Peer reviewer for the journals Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Popular Music, Managing Sport and Leisure, and Social Enterprise Journal.
2017: Conference co-organiser, Football and Popular Culture, University of Limerick.
2015: Conference co-organiser, Music and Mobilities, University of Oxford.
2014–16: Student committee member, Royal Musical Association.
Cyhoeddiadau
2021
- Millar, S. and Chatzipanagiotidou, E. 2021. From Belfast to the Somme (and back again): loyalist paramilitaries, political song, and reverberations of violence. Ethnomusicology Forum (10.1080/17411912.2020.1865178)
2020
- Millar, S. 2020. Popular music as a weapon: Irish rebel songs and the onset of the Northern Ireland troubles. In: Mangaoang, ?., O'Flynn, J. and Ó Briain, L. eds. Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music. New York: Routledge, pp. 130-141.
- Calo, F.et al. 2020. The impact of a community‐based music intervention on the health and well‐being of young people: A realist evaluation. Health and Social Care in the Community 28(3), pp. 988-997., article number: Volume28, Issue3 May 2020 Pages 988-997. (10.1111/hsc.12931)
- Millar, S. R. 2020. Sounding dissent: rebel songs, resistance, and Irish republicanism. Music and Social Justice. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (10.3998/mpub.11393212)
- Power, M. J.et al. 2020. Football and politics: the politics of football. Managing Sport and Leisure 25(1-2), pp. 1-5. (10.1080/23750472.2020.1723437)
2019
- Millar, S.et al. 2019. COOL Music: a ‘bottom-up’ music intervention for hard-to-reach young people in Scotland. British Journal of Music Education, pp. 1-12. (10.1017/S0265051719000226)
2018
- Millar, S. R. 2018. 'Music is my AK-47': performing resistance in Belfast's rebel music scene. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(2), pp. 348-365. (10.1111/1467-9655.12814)
2017
- Carr, J., Power, M. and Millar, S. 2017. More than a game: football, politics and popular culture. Brainstorm
2016
- Millar, S. R. 2016. Let the people sing? Irish rebel songs, sectarianism, and Scotland's Offensive Behaviour Act. Popular Music 35(3), pp. 297-319. (10.1017/S0261143016000519)
- Millar, S. R. 2016. Irish Republican music and (post)colonial schizophrenia. Popular Music and Society 40(1), pp. 75-88. (10.1080/03007766.2016.1229098)
- Millar, S. 2016. Kate Horgan.The Politics of Songs in Eighteen-Century Britain, 1723-1795. Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution Number 4 [Book Review]. Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 50(1)
2015
- Millar, S. R. 2015. Musically consonant, socially dissonant: orange walks and Catholic interpretation in West-Central Scotland. Music and Politics 9(1) (10.3998/mp.9460447.0009.102)
- Goodall, K.et al. 2015. Sectarianism in Scotland: A 'West of Scotland' problem, a patchwork or a cobweb?. Scottish Affairs 24(3), pp. 288-307. (10.3366/scot.2015.0079)
- Millar, S. R. 2015. 'I Forbid You To Like It:' The Smiths, David Cameron, and the politics of (mis)appropriating popular culture. Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 13(1)
- Goodall, K.et al. 2015. Community experiences of sectarianism. Project Report. [Online]. London: Scottish Government Social Research. Available at: https://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00470344.pdf