Olivia Hamilton

Area of proposed thesis

My research explores the relationship between music, landscape, folklore, and the cultural production of regional identity, with a particular focus on Gothic heritage and performance cultures in Whitby and the North Yorkshire coast. Combining ethnographic and archival research with interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural studies, social geography, folklore, and heritage studies, I examine how historical narratives, physical environments, and contemporary musical and subcultural practices shape regional identity in the present.

Research interests

Ethnomusicology; Music and Place; Cultural Geography; Regional Identity and Regionalism; Folklore and Folk Traditions; Gothic Studies; Cultural Heritage; Subcultural Studies.

Funding

Christ Church Scholarship

Degrees

BA Music, Durham University

MPhil Music (Musicology), University of Oxford.