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Joanne Cormac

@jcormac.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Specialisms: 19th-century music, the symphony, global history, imperialism, travel, transnationalism, cultural exchange.

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Joanne Cormac@jcormac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lovely to end a very stressful term by signing to contract for my next book, provisionally entitled A New History of the Symphony: Music, Mobility, and Modernity in the North Atlantic World, 1800-1914. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2027!

Joanne Cormac@jcormac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last night at 19:00, three students - Mo Zhou, Nicholas Huaman, and Ella Townsend - had compositions broadcast as part of a special programme of BBC Radio 3's Friday Night is Music Night in collab with the BBC concert orchestra, NTU and @nottmusichub.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecf3v2

Friday Night is Music Night with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

At the heart of the programme is Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Nottingham’s own rising star pianist, performing Ravel’s dazzling Piano Concerto in G.

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Joanne Cormac@jcormac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Job alert! 12-week paid research placement supervised by me & colleagues at NTU and Nottingham Castle. The researcher will investigate the provenance, cultural meanings, and history of display of African instruments in Nottingham Castle's collection. collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/echoes-of-em...

Echoes of Empire: Engaging communities with diverse cultural histories through the Histories of African Instruments at Nottingham Castle - Collaboratory Research Hub

Collaboratory 2026 Research Placement Project Download PDF Key Details Project Title: Echoes of Empire: Engaging communities with diverse cultural histories through the Histories of African Instrument...

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Joanne Cormac@jcormac.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A lovely end to another crazy week: I’ve been offered a contract by Cambridge University Press for my new book: The Symphony in the North Atlantic World: A Transnational History (1800-1914). Woohoo!

Dr David Osborne@daosborne.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In Birmingham for tonight’s concert of Schumann & Stravinsky by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle and picked up this flyer about UoN’s dreadful Music Dept plans. Spread the word.

Photo of a flyer deploring UoN’s plan to stop taking music students, taken in Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Joanne Cormac@jcormac.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended. Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.

Hannah O’Regan@palaeohan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Music, along with Theology and all modern languages now under threat at Nottingham Uni. More details in Hannah’s message below.

Hannah Robbins (they/them)@drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.

On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges.
Dr Karen McAulay@karenmca.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just doing my bit to share the petitions for the University of #Nottingham's music and modern language degree courses. So distressingly shortsighted. karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...

University of Nottingham, you cannot drop Music and Modern Languages!

The screenshot below, is of the University of Nottingham Music Department homepage. A flourishing department, which sadly hit the news for all the wrong reasons a couple of days ago. BBC News:- Uni…

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Dr Karen McAulay@karenmca.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I've got a voice - might as well use it! Standing up for music and modern language departments everywhere ... #Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...

University of Nottingham, you cannot drop Music and Modern Languages!

The above screenshot is of the University of Nottingham Music Department homepage. A flourishing department, which sadly hit the news for all the wrong reasons a couple of days ago. BBC News:- Univ…

karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog

Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm lucky to have worked with one of the many brilliant people in these departments. Henry Parkes in Music is one of the cleverest, most insightful and inspirational historians I know - and one of the finest teachers too. Don't waste such talent @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.

Dan Elphick@danelphick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

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