Dr Noel Lobley
Dr Noel Lobley
Stipendiary Lecturer in Music
Email: Dr Noel Lobley
Teaching Interests
Noel teaches the social and cultural study of music, music ethnography and ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music. He also teaches the anthropology of music and sound in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.
Research Interests
My research interests embrace social and cultural theory, musicology and ethnomusicology in order to consider the changing processes of local and global musical transmissions and circulations. Much of my work to date has focused on some of the many different traditions of sub-Saharan Africa (including both rural and urban forms). I have conducted extensive fieldwork in South Africa, and am currently researching a major collection of music from the rainforests of the Central African Republic. My current focus considers ways to develop and implement practical and pro-active methods of sound curation, in order to broaden audiences for, and uses of, ethnographic sound.
Other Information
I currently work as a researcher on ‘Reel to Real’, a project designed to research and develop the unique fieldwork recordings in the sound archive at the Pitt Rivers Museum. I also work as a DJ and broadcaster, musician, music promoter and sound curator.
