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Cameron Hughes

Postgraduate researcher

Leeds School of Arts

Cameron is a PhD student researching how genre hybridisation can be used in Popular Music composition. Cameron's approach encompasses culture, composition, performance, and production practices within various Popular Music genres. This approach has led to a synthesised definition of genre and genre hybridisation, and a synthesised method of genre analysis.

Cameron Hughes holding guitar performing

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About

Cameron is a South African-born, Irish-raised, full-time PhD student at Leeds Beckett researching Genre Hybridisation as a Compositional Tool in Popular Music. This research project combines culture, composition, performance, and production in multiple Popular Music genres to synthesise definitions of both genre and genre hybridisation. This produces a new method of analysis that focuses on identifying and describing genre signifiers to be used for creating hybrid works.

Cameron's background in performance has allowed him to tour with artists around the UK and has developed an interest in live music production from the perspective of the performer. This has translated into how Cameron approaches Popular Music composition with his various projects, and how these hybrid works translate to a live performance setting.

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Project Description

Genre Hybridisation as a Compositional Tool in Popular Music

Genre hybridisation, the cumulative interrelation and recontextualisation of indistinguishable idiomatic genre elements, or genre signifiers, is a trend that is growing in popularity in Popular Music, and although this is not a new topic, neither is it a new trend, Cameron's PhD project views the concept of genre hybridity in a new light that aims to utilise these genre signifiers to create new hybrid music. Genre hybridity requires an analysis of the genres one wishes to hybridise to avoid drifting into the realm of parody and pastiche, often associated with polystylism. Therefore, a method of analysis that focuses on the identification of sonic characteristics and the timbral presence of sound sources must be identified. The results from this synthesised method of analysis are to be used to create hybrid works, where signifiers from one genre will be interrelated and recontextualised through composition, production, and performance techniques associated with another. Cameron's contribution to knowledge will therefore be synthesised definitions of genre and genre hybridisation, a synthesised method of genre analysis identifying and describing idiomatic genre elements, and the creation of new hybrid compositions.