Previous projects
Explore a range of research projects we've carried out over the past few years.
ReMap
The ReMap report provides a detailed overview of how Black individuals contribute to and participate in the region’s music sector, along with the challenges they encounter.
IPM Greatest Hits
The IPM has co-curated an online exhibition of 'greatest hits' from its extensive archive collection of audiovisual, print and manuscript material spanning many time periods.
IPM Tay Day
The IPM organised and hosted Tay Day, a free event celebrating Taylor Swift with discussions, critical karaoke, and fan activities, attracting Swifties worldwide.
Hidden Histories
Liverpool Sound City and IMP researcher Paul Gallagher delivered a 14-week 'Hidden Music Histories' course in early 2023, exploring Liverpool's musical heritage.
The Stage and the Ring
The Stage and the Ring is an interrogation into the relationships between music and boxing in London.
Transforming Music Policy in Liverpool (REF2021)
IPM Research has driven policy innovations in Liverpool, fostering lasting collaboration across previously disconnected sectors of music heritage, tourism, and industry.
Digitally Mapping a Music Sector
IPM Researchers Dr Mathew Flynn and Dr Richard Anderson have conducted research on the impact of COVID-19 measures on the Liverpool City Region’s musicians and businesses.
Magical Music Trails
The ‘Magical Music Trails’ initiative asks you to follow one of the specially developed musical walking trails and take photos of what you see along the way.
The Legacy of the Beatles
Research on the legacy of the Beatles and its economic and cultural value for Liverpool.
The Beat Goes On
Popular music has always had great social and political significance in modern societies, and for cities like Liverpool, its musical heritage has become a valuable asset.
Musical Film, Memory and Wellbeing
This project uses music and film to improve the wellbeing of older people in the UK and Brazil, including those living with a dementia-related cognitive impairment.
POPID
A project exploring popular music's contribution to narratives of cultural identity as well as representations of cultural heritage and memory in a pan-European context.
Where Light Falls: Songs about Joni Mitchell
A collaborative project between IPM researcher Mike Jones, Argentinean-born guitarist Alejandro Sancho, and singer Rosie Brown, resulting in a biographical body of songs.
Pop Nostalgia, Pop Canonization and Korean Music Reality Shows
This project explores how Korean and Chinese TV music reality shows revive late 20th-century Korean pop through nostalgia, performance, and media production.
Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories
An eighteen-month project exploring practical and theoretical issues involved with preserving and representing popular music in a museum.
Popular Musicscapes
A two-year project examining popular music and urban landscape in order to address topical debates concerning culture, creativity and urban regeneration.
Music, Repertoire and Value
A three-month project exploring the Manchester Hallé Archives, a significant and comprehensive but under-utilised collection of documents relating to the Hallé’s history and operation.
Music, Photographs and Stories from the Archive
An experimental, four-month project based on collaboration between the IPM, the Open Eye Gallery, and Liverpooljazz, an organisation working to raise the profile of jazz performance.
Twilight City
Twilight City involved a series of four high profile audiovisual performances paying tribute to Liverpool's potentially overlooked spaces.
Pop, Passion and Politics
This project explored the relationship between music and politics using IPM Collections materials and culminated in a 34-panel exhibition.
Electric Blanket
Electric Blanket was an interactive digital audiovisual project exploring the memories of sheltered housing residents aged 55 to 80.