Graduate Student, Gender and Cultural Studies
Postgraduate Research Fellow & Casual Lecturer
Thesis Title: Ecstasy and Hypnosis: culture, morality and popular music after post-structuralism
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Associate Professor Catherine Driscoll
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About
Tim Laurie's PhD thesis examines relationships between musical genres, media industries, and the cultural politics of race and genre, focusing on the US and the UK. Laurie draws on communications studies, sociology, political economy, philosophy and critical race theory in his study of three genres, 1960s Motown (& uptown soul), the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (~1978-1984 in the UK) and Bay Area Thrash (~1983-1990 in the US). In addition to this popular music focus, he has also written on anthropology, post-colonialism and the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. He has presented papers on Motown, Bill Condon's "Dreamgirls", Aerosmith, and Claude Levi-Strauss' structural anthropology. He is currently looking at the relationship between Kantian aesthetics and historical materialism.
