Catherine Jane Tackley (born Catherine Jane Parsonage) is a musicologist and academic. She holds a

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from City, University London (awarded in 2002) and then worked at

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. She was appointed to a

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in music at the

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in 2008; promotions to senior lecturer and

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followed in 2011 and April 2016, before she was appointed professor of music at the

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in August 2016. She is interested in historical and critical musicology with a focus on

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and

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. She has also worked on

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in Britain and the

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."The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880''–''1927 : antecedents, processes and developments"
''EThOS'' (British Library). Retrieved 29 December 2018.

Selected publications

* ''The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880–1935'' ( Ashgate, 2005). *
Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
' (

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, 2012). * (Edited with Jason Toynbee and Mark Doffman)
Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance
', Ashgate Popular and Folk Music series (

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, 2016).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tackley, Catherine Living people British musicologists British women musicologists Alumni of City, University of London Academics of the Open University Academics of the University of Liverpool Year of birth missing (living people)