Steve Potter

Steve Potter, FHEA

PhD

Accepting PhD Students

20112020

Research activity per year

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Research interests

Music composition & politics. Rap, hip-hop, Dada, punk, activism, anti-art. Tristan Tzara, Laibach, Eric B. & Rakim, Tierra Whack. Critical theory; composition informed by theory; naive music. M.I.A., Deerhoof, Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Opera, spoken word, music with textual and/or theatrical components. René Pollesch. Free jazz, improvisers orchestras, conduction, cross-cultural collaboration, protest music, outsider music. The avant-garde (African, Asian, American, European) and ideology. Gamelan. Noise musics. Nietzsche, Adorno, Gilroy, Marx, Foucault. Alternative institutions, aesthetic strategies of resistance, wabi-sabi. Popular culture. Science fiction, utopias, heterotopias.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Portfolio of Compositions and Commentary, King's College London

1 Oct 20061 Oct 2010

Award Date: 1 Apr 2011

Supervised by
  • Benjamin, George

External positions

Cornell University

1 Aug 201531 Jul 2016

Goldsmiths, University of London

1 Sept 201331 Jul 2015

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