Previous Projects - Institute of Popular Music

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.

Fan standing next to cardboard cutout of Taylor Swift

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 to the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre.

Hidden Music Histories – an immersive course for young people in the Liverpool City Region Hidden Music Histories poster

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 through tours, expert talks, and recorded sessions, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Stage and the Ring: Music and Boxing in London The Stage and the Ring poster depicting a boxer

The Stage and the Ring

The Stage and the Ring is an interrogation into the relationships between music and boxing in London.

Stylised photo of a statue of the Beatles

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 Detail of map of Liverpool

Digitally Mapping a Music Sector

IPM Researchers Dr Mathew Flynn and Dr Richard Anderson have since the 2020 pandemic conducted research on the impact of COVID-19 induced measures on the Liverpool City Region’s musicians and businesses.

Magical Music Trails Magical Music Trails graphic

Magical Music Trails

The ‘Magical Music Trails’ initiative asks you to follow one of the specially developed musical walking trails (see below) 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 helping to profile and sell the city on the world stage.

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, in nursing home and health care settings and as part of activities organized for those living independently.

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