London College of Fashion Working as part of London College of Fashion's Undergraduate Foundation Degree programme, the Foundation Tailoring Degree and in conjunction with Union Black, University of Westminster and Festival Jamaica 2012, guest lectures will be delivered to students on the FdA Tailoring course as part of the ‘Jamaica Rude Boys Project'.
Students will examine the socio-political and fashion history of 1950s and 1960s Britain in order to identify how and why subcultures were spawned and how these subcultures responded to the social, political and racial tensions of the time socially, musically and sartorially.
By semester's end, FdA Tailoring students will create suits representative of their understanding of the period for presentation in the year in which the 50th anniversary of Jamaican Independence and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be celebrated.
BBC World Service To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of ‘Thriller' – the biggest-selling album of all time – the BBC World Service will examine the global legacy of this groundbreaking recording and the idolatry it inspired.
During a 1992 tour of the African continent Michael Jackson was crowned Prince Michael Jackson Amalaman Anoh after his bloodline was traced to the Sanwi kingdom, rulers of the Krindjabo village in west Africa's Ivory Coast .
The Thrill of Thriller radio documentary will explore how the success of Jackson's career-shaping recording led to this coronation and cemented his relationship with Africa. TX:Nov 2012
Race, Gender & the Media* Syracuse University, London Program Incorporating the footage-rich format of Jacqueline's Contemporary Black Music Culture presentations and lectures, RG&M was re-launched for undergraduate study at Syracuse University in London in January 2010.
Students were guided through the working practices and demands of the modern British media, its roots in the class system and its entrenched cultural and gender divisions of the country in order to ascertain how and why the print and broadcast behemoths reflect society, racial and ethnic minorities and the sexes in the way they do.
Students also explored the British music that accompanied the media's evolution - music that has been critical, concessionary, rebellious and reflective of media events and the country itself.
In the four semester's since its launch, students of Race, Gender & the Media witnessed the momentous political leaders' debate that preceded the 2010 UK General Election; the press furore and virulent speculation that greeted news of the re-imprisonment of one of James Bulger's killers; the release of Aung San Suu Kyi; the Papal visit; a teenage lesbian storyline featuring in the UK's longest-running soap opera; Wales pioneering the country's 'Digital Switchover'; the acceleration of the Digital Economy Bill through Parliament; the WikiLeaks furore; the Sky Sports presenters' sexism row; pro-democracy demonstrations in the Middle East and North Africa; the launch of 'The Daily'; The Japanese earthquake; The Queen's visit to Ireland; the royal wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton; the rise of the Super Injunction; News International's 'phone hacking scandal; the 2011 England riots; the Leveson Inquiry; the 10th anniversary of 9/11; the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito; the Old Bailey Stephen Lawrence murder trial; racism in football and the deaths of Osama Bin Laden and Col Gaddafi.
RG&M returns to SULP in January 2012.* Awarded The Michael O'Leary Prize for Excellence in Teaching in April 2010.
Musical Mapping - Syracuse University, London Program Musical Mapping - an addition to SU London's Study Abroad course listings and Syracuse University's esteemed Bandier Program - will guide students through the semiotic relationship forged between music and its surroundings and what that material says about democracy, national identity, political and social history and creativity.
What has the music that's emerged from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and mainland Britain said about the identity, cultural traditions and the politics of the time? What does the evolution of musical sub-genres say about techonology and multi-culturalism? How has the UK, the musical 'gateway to Europe,' continued to assert its national musical identity and diversity in the post-Internet age? From January 2012
British Music & the Media - Syracuse University, London Program The role of musicians as social reflectors and narrators is something the British media have resented since the explosion of rock n' roll in the 1950s. This struggle has endured over the decades – resulting in a cultural and power-based tug of war over the minds of the young, the rights of the artisans and the laws of the land.
How and why the print and broadcast media, successive Conservative and Labour governments, the police and the legal system have responded to six, key, cases involving notable popular music-makers forms the basis of British Music & the Media. From May 2012
'Staying Power'- The Victoria & Albert Museum & Black Cultural Archives A member of the Advisory Panel for 'Staying Power,' a project devoted to exploring black British identity between 1950 and 1990.
Among the project's objecctives: the acquisition of photographs for the V&A's national collection, creating a oral history strand via the procurement of testimonies, exploring issues reflecting new and existing V&A photographic collections and the launch of an exhibition celebrating the newly acquired works of the BCA. Ongoing
