Lecturer in Music
📍The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Fixed-term lectureship in Music with teaching across #Ethnomusicology, #MusicAnalysis, and interdisciplinary arts curricula. The role includes distance-learning teaching and curriculum development, with interests in ethnographic and analytical approaches to music especially welcome.
Deadline: 16/06/2026
There are albums that survive because they altered the trajectory of music history. Others endure because they captured a fleeting cultural moment better than anyone else. But a rare few stay alive for a simpler, far more potent reason: decades later, they still feel unmistakably human. Neil Young’s Harvest belongs to that rare, sacred category.
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