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Dr Peter Mills
Senior Lecturer
Peter's main areas of research and teaching are Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, Music and Dissent, Adaptation, Hungarian Musical Culture, Australian Musical Culture. Books on Van Morrison, Samuel Beckett and The Monkees.
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Peter's main areas of research and teaching are Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, Music and Dissent, Adaptation, Hungarian Musical Culture, Australian Musical Culture. Books on Van Morrison, Samuel Beckett and The Monkees.
Peter's main areas of research and teaching are Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, Music and Dissent, Adaptation, Hungarian Musical Culture, Australian Musical Culture. Books on Van Morrison, Samuel Beckett and The Monkees.
Peter's main area research is Popular Music Studies, and this informs his teaching. He run courses entitled Popular Music and the Moving Image and Popular Music and Dissenting Cultures. He also teach interdisciplinary modules on the Media and English degree and this interaction of disciplines is close to his heart.
Peter's degrees (BA(Hons) and PhD) were both in the field of English Literature and his research is characterised by the intersection of Media and Literary Studies, as he says ideas and creativity flow naturally from one field to another.
Peter is currently working on a series of short books on individual songs, a book chapter on the history of live music in Roundhay park in Leeds, and an ambitious project looking to catalogue the history of live concerts at Leeds Beckett University since 1970.
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Peter has published books on Van Morrison, Samuel Beckett and The Monkees. He is involved in the launch of a series of short books which offer 'biographies' of individual songs. He is writing about 'Moon River' for example.
Peter is currently researching the history of live concerts at Leeds Beckett University a project related to the institution's 50th Anniversary and is about to publish a chapter on the story of live music in Leeds's Roundhay Park.
Publications (17)
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Fallen From The Garden: XTC and Thomas Hardy
Park Life: When Roundhay Went Pop
December 2023
Popular Music in Leeds Histories, Heritage, People and Places Intellect (UK)
Authors: Mills P, Editors: Thompson P, Lashua BA groundbreaking study of music and musical history in Leeds. This is the first scholarly volume to focus on popular music in Leeds.
The Beatles in Perspective A Carnival of Light
2023
0 Equinox Publishing (UK)
McGrath J, Mills P"This collection brings together leading scholars of The Beatles to examine their origins, output and legacy.
The whole of the moon: 'Brain Damage', 'Eclipse', and the mythic narrative of the Pink Floyd
03 October 2017
'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Routledge
'Brain Damage' and 'Eclipse' are the last two tracks on The Dark Side of the Moon. Since Revolver established the principle of the 'final cut', as it were, as the signpost position on an album, pointing to possibilities beyond the world we currently inhabit, the final track on a rock album has borne or been expected to bear the added burden of an expectation of significance. This chapter traces how the search for corrective images of the kind, seeking harmony and empathy, have been both goal and driving force in the work of Pink Floyd. It explores how this urge to go forward and the compulsion to look back, drawing in both cases upon a mythologized past, both unified and fragmented the group. One of the virtues and difficulties in writing about individual cuts from The Dark Side of the Moon is that it is such a powerful and coherent whole that to isolate elements might be said to reduce them.
"Hit The Road , Jack: Van Morrison and 'On The Road' "
08 March 2018
Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack Bloomsbury
Authors: Mills P, Editors: Warner S, Sampras JThe Richest Songs In The World
28 December 2012
RDF media/ BBC Four television
Interviewed for this BBC Four programme, discussing Van Morrison and 'Brown Eyed Girl'. The show tells the stories behind the biggest earning songs of the 20th century. Presented by Mark Radcliffe.
Blues Run The Game: the story of Jackson C. Frank
When Rock Chicks Ruled
North Country Boy: Jake Thackray and Englishness in Music
Van Morrison and Irish Cinematic Lyricism
01 January 2008
Irelands of the mind Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Authors: Mills P, Editors: Allen RC, Regan SThe Money's In, We're Made of Tin: The Monkees, Head, And the Limits of Pop.
Stone Fox Chase: The Rise of High Pop Television in the United Kingdom
30 December 2010
Popular Music And Television In Britain Ashgate Publishing Company
Authors: Mills P, Editors: Inglis IThe Monkees, Head, and the 60s
September 2016
356 London/ New York Jawbone Press
The Monkees invented a new kind of TV, gave a new model to the music industry, and left behind one of the most enigmatic movies of the modern era, Head. This book is about all that and more.
Stone Fox Chase: The Old Grey Whistle Test and the rise of high-pop television
Media and Popular Music
30 July 2012
168 Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press
This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator.
Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Work of Van Morrison
08 April 2010
448 New York Continuum
Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison Peter Mills. what high- end pop-ro ck production sounded like in 1978. It was recorded away from his usual haunts, at the Manor in Oxfordshire, which was Virgin Records 'in-house' studio; this also ...
Current teaching
- Popular Music and the Moving Image
- Popular Music, Dissenting Cultures
- Music and Mediation
- Theory Text Performance
- Intertextuality and Adaptation
- Cinematic identities
- Understanding Social Media
- The Art Of Investigation
