
Dr Jo Haynes
B.A.(Qld.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Associate Professor
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
Jo’s research interests are in the fields of race/racialisation, music, cosmopolitanism and cultural work. She broadly explores entanglements between race and music by asking ontological and political questions about the ways in which race is invoked within cultural production and consumption. Her book Music, Difference and Residue of Race (2013; New York: Routledge) explored these themes as do several of her journal publications (see below). She explores questions of cosmopolitanism, racism, diversity and representation in popular culture, including music festivals and television, and is also interested in the working lives of musicians and other aspects of cultural work in the creative & cultural industries. Another emergent focus within the study of popular music is methodological where she enjoys exploring theoretical and practical questions about researchers’ negotiations of the music field and how to conceptualise music as an object of sociological investigation. Other methodological interests focus on working with archived qualitative data and the use of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) in research.
She is currently a Principal Investigator on a large European research project studying European Music Festivals, Public Spaces, and Cultural Diversity (FestiVersities) funded by the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) network as part of their Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe joint research programme. The research will take place within five European countries between 2019-2022. Other academic partners include Project Lead - Professor Ian Woodward (Syddansk Universitet, Denmark), and (PI) Dr Pauwke Berkers (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), (PI) Dr Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick, Ireland) and (PI) Karolina Golemo (Jagiellonian University, Poland). This project is a comparative study of music festivals as potential public spaces affording encounters with diversities. The project takes a qualitative, comparative approach to investigate across multiple research sites the meaning of the festival for organisers, festival workers, performers, audiences and the community more broadly. Jo will be particularly focused on festival workers and musicians’ encounters with diversity. Methods of data collection include participant observation, surveys, research interviews, and visual-sonic methodologies.
Prior to this she was Co-Principal Investigator (with Lee Marshall) on a British Academy funded project (Digital Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Commerce and Creativity in the ‘New’ Music Industry) that explored the entrepreneurial activities of musicians and the tensions between their commercial and creative experiences particularly in the context of social media. Articles from this research are published in British Journal of Sociology and New Media & Society.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
European Music Festivals, Public Spaces and Cultural Diversity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2019 to 25/11/2022
Digital entrepreneurs: negotiating commerce and creativity in the 'new' music industry.
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The proposed project is a pilot study on musicians’ digital commercial practices
and how musicians’ perceptions of recent changes to the music industry shape
their creative music subjectivity. Within the context of…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/08/2013 to 01/12/2014
EXTENSION-EVALUATION OF AIMING HIGH : AFRICAN CARRIBEAN ACHIEVMENT
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
Performance of Aiming High schools: pupil attainment, progress and inclusion
• There is some evidence to show that results have improved for African Caribbean students attending Aiming High schools. For example between…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/03/2004 to 01/07/2006
UNDERSTANDING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF MIXED RACE PUPILS AT RISK OF UNDERACHIEVING
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
➢The attainment of White/Black Caribbean pupils is below average, the attainment of White/Black African pupils is similar to average in primary schools and slightly below average in secondary schools and…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/09/2003 to 01/09/2004
Publications
Recent publications
05/03/2021Glastonbury and its Vivid Presence
Taking Care of Business: The routines and rationales of early career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries
International Journal of Cultural Studies