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Staff profile / Dr Kevin Edge

Senior Lecturer
Telephone 02920 417204
Email kedge@uwic.ac.uk

A design historian with additional interests – popular musical cultures and the mass media.

After graduating in art history from the University of Leicester, 1981 he moved to London where he worked as a decorator, jazz critic and gallery guide. From 1987-94 he was a print curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum and curated the exhibition: "The Art of Selling Songs". In 1991 he co-curated the museum’s Twentieth Century Galleries. Following a period of teaching at Camberwell and Kingston he was appointed lecturer at UWIC. He was awarded his doctorate in 2009 after completing his research within the Philosophy Department, Cardiff University. The PhD thesis examines the subject of the BBC as a eutopian (sic) musical space of intersubjective communication. Supervisor: Dr Andrew Edgar.

Kevin Edge is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/), part of the Fine Art & Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Conference Papers/Presentations:

2006 “Dance to the Radio”: A socio-political reading of performative places & broadcast space using Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Manchester Institute of Popular Culture, ‘Music & Place’ Manchester Metropolitan University (Speaker)
2005 Adorno & The BBC: A work-in-progress paper for the Professor Christopher Norris Postgaduate Reading Group, Philosophy Section, Cardiff University (Speaker)
2002 “Mixing the barricade and the dance floor” Towards a new reading of popular musics & the thought of Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas. ‘The Intellectual Frontiers of Music' International conference, University of Aberdeen, Music Dept (Speaker)

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.