Rafael Mendes-Browne
- Email: gyramb@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: "Feelin' The Dissonance": The Production of Racially Mixed Identities in the British Music Industry
- Supervisors: Dr Nichola Wood, Professor David Bell
Profile
I am a Cultural Geographer with an interest in British ethnomusicology. Funded by the Leeds Doctoral Scholarship (LDS), my project is titled “Feelin’ The Dissonance”: The Production of Racially Mixed Identities in the British Music Industry. The main aim of my research is to capture experiential knowledge of Mixed professionals’ experiences within the British music industry, to increase discourse surrounding Mixed cultural expression. Alongside this, I will be investigating how music culture contributes to the formation of Mixed identities, and how Mixed musicians navigate their identities in the British music industry.
Research interests
- Geographies of Music
- Geographies of Identity
- 21st Century British Music Culture
- Racially Mixed Cultures
- The British Music Industry
- Group Creativity and Flow
- Authenticity
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology, University of Hull
- MMus in Ethnomusicology, University of Hull
- PhD, University of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Social Justice, Cities, Citizenship