Jim Hickson

Area of proposed thesis

“The One-Stringed Fiddle Recontextualised: Performing and Translating an African Musical Instrument in the West.” Examining the way the African musical instruments are represented in the West, through the lens of museums and the world music sphere.

Research interests

The musics of Africa and the Islamic world, musical circulation and diffusion, music and identity formation, the "world music" industry, sound archives, organology, ethnomusicology.

Degrees

BA (Hons) Music, SOAS University of London

MMus Ethnomusicology, SOAS University of London.

Publications

“Examining the Success of Malian Music As World Music”. 2022. African Music 11(3): 55-70. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v12i1.2430.

““There’s a Great Human Story to be Told”: The Music and Practices of Ostinato Records.” 2024. Yearbook of Traditional Music. 55 (2): 281-286. https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2023.22.