Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Most of my published work has engaged with the study of hip-hop music and culture, but have also written on jazz, crowdfunding and the figure of the singer-songwriter. I am currently writing on a book on UK hip-hop in the 21st century.
Other research interests include:
- Popular music studies (especially hip-hop)
- Musical borrowing
- Film music and other forms of audio-visual intermediality (e.g. YouTube)
- Jazz (history, arranging, analysis and composition)
- The singer-songwriter
- Intersections between progressive rock and jazz 'fusion' in the 1970s
- Digital patronage
- Music and geography
- Mobility and sound studies
- The analysis of record production
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Research output
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Analysing the Progressive in Progressive Metal
Williams, J. A. & Gamble, S., 2025, (In preparation) The Oxford Handbook of Progressive Rock . Hill, S. & Moore, A. (eds.). Oxford University Press, New YorkResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life
Williams, J. A., 2025, (In preparation) Oxford University Press, New York. (Keynotes)Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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‘Strategies of Intertextuality and uses of Zilizopendwa in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular Music’
Williams, J. A. & Omari, S., 2025, (In preparation) In: East African Literary and Cultural Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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British Gospel Choirs: Representing Race and Resounding Religion in Twenty-first Century Britain
Williams, J. A. (Principal Investigator) & Ingalls, M. M. (Principal Investigator)
Project: Research
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MCSA Pump Priming: Workshops and Grant Preperation
Williams, J. A. (Principal Investigator)
16/06/25 → 19/09/25
Project: Research
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MSCA PF Travel Fund (research visit from Blaithin Duggan)
Williams, J. A. (Principal Investigator)
10/06/24 → 14/06/24
Project: Research
Prizes
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Winner, Outstanding Multi-Author Collection, Society for Music Theory
Williams, J. A. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
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Beyond the Bassline: In Conversation with DJ Krust
Williams, J. A. (Organiser), Seymour, K. (Organiser), Higgins, M. R. (Contributor) & Bowes, L. (Contributor)
30 Oct 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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Mario Dunkel
Williams, J. A. (Host)
20 Mar 2024 → 25 Mar 2024Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Performance, Conversation, and Workshop with The Last Poets
Williams, J. (Organiser) & Kosick, R. (Organiser)
25 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Festival, exhibition, performance