Ann-Marie Hanlon

Ordinary Committee Member

Ann-Marie Hanlon (PhD, Newcastle) is a musicologist with specialisms in cultural theories of music, popular music, French modernism and music as medicine. She is a lecturer in music at the University of Galway. 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).