探花直播

• Popular music of black origin: jazz, soul and reggae
• Radio and the mediation of popular music
• Music Industries and production cultures

• PhD Cultural Studies (探花直播 University)
• MA Cultural Studies (探花直播 University)
• PGCE (North Staffordshire Polytechnic)
• BA (Hons) Economics with Philosophy (Lancaster University)

• IASPM
• MeCSSA
• Radio Studies Network

• PhD Media and Cultural Studies

Tim Wall researches into the production and consumption cultures around popular music, radio and other media. He has a particular focus on the white British response to popular music of black origin, including jazz, soul and reggae; how popular music is mediated, especially by radio; and how the tangible and intangible culture of popular music is archived.

His work is often collaborative, with other members of the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research, or in cross-university projects.

I supervise students working on projects in British and US music radio, community media, popular music industry and culture.

Current student projects include practice-based work in community radio documentary, British jazz history, reggae production cultures, Palestinian hip-hop.

Publications since 2000

• Jazz and BBC Radio 1922 to 1972 (forthcoming, Equinox 2025).
• Media studies: texts, production and context (fourth edition) [with Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Shana MacDonald, Schem Rogerson Bader] (forthcoming, Routledge, 2025).
• Rethinking Miles Davis [with Roger Fagge and Nic Pillai eds] (forthcoming, OUP 2024).
• 鈥楳iles on a Second Major: Miles Davis鈥� Career From Columbia to Warner Bros Records鈥� in Roger Fagge, Nic Pillai and Tim Wall Rethinking Miles Davis (forthcoming, OUP 2024).
• 鈥楲ocating Tutu鈥� in Roger Fagge, Nic Pillai and Tim Wall Rethinking Miles Davis (forthcoming, OUP 2024).
• 鈥極rchestrating Miles鈥� [with Bobbie-Jane Gardner] in Roger Fagge, Nic Pillai and Tim Wall Rethinking Miles Davis (forthcoming, OUP 2024).
• 鈥楳y One LP: a photo essay on the personal resonance of Miles Davis鈥� recorded music鈥� [with William Ellis] in Roger Fagge, Nic Pillai and Tim Wall Rethinking Miles Davis (forthcoming, OUP 2024).
• Re-imagining the music photographic portrait: Capturing the place of recorded music in our cultural identity. A collaboration between William Ellis and Tim Wall (2024).
• 鈥�(Re)Presenting British Reggae Culture on Film: Reggae Britannia, Babylon and Small Axe Lovers Rock鈥� [with Ben Torrens] in Conference Papers, 7th Global Reggae Conference. (forthcoming, UWI 2023).
• 鈥楻etelling the story of the early BBC through jazz broadcasting 1922 to 1932鈥� The Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2023)
• 鈥楻eframing Materiality in the Caribbean Diaspora Podcast鈥� [with Rachel-Ann Charles] in Iain Taylor and Oliver Carter (eds) Media Materialities (2023).
• 鈥樷�淪ince Tommy Atkins Taught the Chinese How to Charleston鈥�: what is jazz in Jack Payne's Hotel Cecil Dance Band鈥檚 1927 BBC Broadcasts鈥�. in Jazzforschung / Jazz Research: Jazz Journeys Vol. 50 (2022).
• 鈥楬idden in Plain Sight: Stories of gender, generation and political economy on the northern soul scene鈥� [with Sarah Raine] in Martin James and Chris Anderton Media Narratives in Popular Music (2021).
• Media studies: texts, production and context (third edition) [with Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Shana MacDonald, Schem Rogerson Bader] Routledge, 2021
• 鈥楻ock 鈥榥鈥� Roll: Cars, Convergence and Culture鈥� [with Nick Webber] in Mark Duffett and Beate Peter [eds] Music & Automobiles Bloomsbury, 2019.
• 鈥楥o-operative Inquiry between research student and their supervisor鈥� [with Sarah Raine] in Geof Hill [ed] 10 ways to Investigate Research Supervision Practice SEDA, 2019.
• 鈥樷�淥ut on the Floor鈥�: The Politics of Dancing on the Northern Soul Scene鈥� in Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman-Smith [eds] The Northern Soul Scene Equinox, 2019.
• 鈥楳yths on/of the Northern Soul Scene鈥� [with Sarah Raine] Scene鈥� in Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman-Smith [eds] The Northern Soul Scene Equinox, 2019.
• 鈥業nterviews with Tony Palmer, Elaine Constantine, and Liam Quinn鈥� in Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman-Smith [eds] The Northern Soul Scene Equinox, 2019.
• 鈥業ntroduction鈥� [with Sarah Raine and Nicola Watchman-Smith] in Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman-Smith [eds] The Northern Soul Scene Equinox, 2019.
• 鈥楥ritical Reflection鈥� in Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman-Smith [eds] The Northern Soul Scene Equinox, 2019.
• The Northern Soul Scene [with Sarah Raine and Nicola Watchman-Smith eds] Equinox, 2019.
• 鈥楽creening popular music鈥檚 past: Music documentary and biopics鈥� [with Nicolas Pillai] in Sarah Baker, Catherine Strong, Lauren Istvandity, Zelmarie Cantillon [eds] The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage, Routledge 2018.
• 鈥楯azz on radio鈥� in Nick Gebhardt, Nichole Rustin-Paschal Tony Whyton聽Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies Routledge, 2018.
• 'Radio Sound' in Michael Bull (ed) Routledge Companion to Sound聽Studies. Routledge, 2018.
• 鈥楲a Radio Musical Entra a Internet鈥� in post(s). Volumen 3. Agosto 2017. AKADEMOS
• 鈥楶articipation and role in the northern soul scene鈥� [with Sarah Raine] in Paula Guerra and Ta虃nia Moreira (eds.) Keep it Simple, Make it Fast!: an approach to underground music scenes (vol. 3) Porto, 2017.
• 鈥楧uke Ellington, the meaning of jazz and the BBC in the 1930s鈥� in Roger Fagge and Nicolas Pillai (eds) New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice Routledge, 2016.
• 鈥楳usic Radio Goes Online鈥� in Christina Baade et al Music and the broadcast experience: performance, production, and audience OUP, 2016.
• 鈥楽ight and Sound in Concert? The Interrelationship Between Music and Television鈥� [with Paul Long] in The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman (eds) Sage, 2015.
• 鈥楥ollective cultures and live jazz in 探花直播鈥� [with Simon Barber] in Nicholas Gebhardt and Tony Whyton (eds) The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives: This Is Our Music Routledge, 2015.
• 鈥楶ersonal Listening Pleasures鈥櫬燵with Nick Webber] in Martin Conboy and John Steel (eds)聽The Routledge Companion to British Media History Routledge, 2015.
• 鈥楢narcho-Punk webzines: transferring symbols of defiance from the print to the digital age?鈥� [with Matt Grimes] in Matthew Worley (ed) Fight Back: Punk, politics and resistance Manchester University Press, 2014.
• 鈥楥hanging cultural co-ordinates: the transistor radio and space / time / identity鈥� [with Nick Webber] in Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies OUP, 2014.
• 鈥楳obilising specialist music fans online鈥� in Helen Thornham and Simon Popple (ed) Content Cultures: Transformations of User Generated Content in Public Service Broadcasting IBTaurus, 2013.
• 鈥楾丑别 X Factor鈥� in Peter Bennett and Julian McDougall (eds) Barthes鈥� "Mythologies" Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture, Routledge, 2013
• 鈥楾ony Palmer鈥檚 All You Need Is Love: Television鈥檚 first pop history鈥� [with Paul Long] in Benjamin Halligan, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, and Robert Edgar (eds) The Music Documentary, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2013.
• Studying popular music culture (second edition) Sage, 2013.
• 鈥楧uke Ellington, radio remotes, and the mediation of big city nightlife, 1927 to 1933鈥� Jazz Perspectives 2013.
• 鈥楾丑别 collective organization of contemporary jazz musicians in the UK鈥� [with Simon Barber], Jazz Research Journal 5/1&2, 89-112, Equinox 2012.
• 鈥楳usica popular y radio en siglo XXI鈥� in J. Ignacio Gallego y Ma Trinidad Garcia Leiva Sintonizando el future: Radio y producci贸n sonora en el siglioXXI Madrid: Instituto rtve, 2012.
• Media studies: texts, production and context (second edition) [ed with Paul Long] Pearson, 2012.
• 鈥楤ienvenido a la nueva era de la radio: la comprensi贸n de la actualidad de radio del pasado de la radio鈥� (Welcome to the third age of radio: understanding radio's present from radio's past) in Itxaso Fernandez et al (eds) The Radio is dead. Long live the Radio! Proceedings of I Congreso Internacional de Comunicaci贸n Audiovisual y Publicidad 24 y 25 de Noviembre 2012.
• 鈥楥onstructing the histories of popular music: the Britannia series鈥� [with Paul Long] in Ian Inglis (ed) Popular Music on British Television Ashgate, 2010.
• 鈥楯azz Britannia: mediating the story of British jazz on television鈥� [with Paul Long] Jazz Research Journal 3/2, 145-170 2010.
• 鈥楨xperimenting with fandom, live music, and the internet: applying insights from music fan culture to new media production鈥� [with Andrew Dubber] Journal of New Music Research, 39/2, 159-169, 2010.
• Media studies: texts, production and context [ed with Paul Long] Pearson, 2009.
• Tony Levin: a life in jazz [with Simon Barber] online , 2009
• 鈥楽pecialist music, public service and the BBC in the internet age鈥� [with Andrew Dubber] the Radio Journal 7/1, 27-47, 2009.
• 'Rocking Around the Clock: dance fads from 1955 to 1965', in Julie Malnig (ed) Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader 2009.
• 鈥楩inding an alternative: music programming in US college radio鈥� in the Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 5/1, 35-54, 2007.
• 鈥楧avid Murray: The making of a progressive jazz musician鈥� Jazz Research Journal 1/2, 173-203, 2007.
• Making money out of music: the development of regional music economies Digital Central, 2007.
• New broadcast technologies [editor] UNESCO, 2006.
• 鈥楥alling the tune: resolving the tension between profit and regulation in commercial radio鈥� Southern Review 39/2, 77-95, 2006.
• 鈥極ut on the floor: the politics of dancing on the Northern Soul scene鈥� Popular Music 25/3, 431-445, 2006.
• Online music enterprise: new technologies of music distribution and consumption LSC, 2006.
• 鈥楾丑别 Specialist Radio Degree at UCE鈥� [with Peter Windows], The Radio Journal, 2/2, 101-122, 2005.
• 鈥楾丑别 political economy of internet music radio鈥� The Radio Journal 2/1, 27-44, 2004.
• Studying popular music culture, Arnold, 2003.
• 鈥楥ommercial radio and the construction of audiences鈥� Electronic Working Papers in Radio, 2002.
• 鈥楶olicy, pop, and the public: The discourse of regulation in British commercial radio鈥� Journal of Radio Studies, 7/1, 2000.

Conferences since 2000

• 鈥楾丑别 British Broadcasting Corporation and new British jazz 1960-75鈥� at Jazz in the European Media: Historical considerations and current trends. 47th Radio Jazz Research Meeting. Bad Ischl, Salzkammergut, Austria, April 2024.
• 鈥楪endering Jazz on BBC Radio鈥� Rhythm Changes Gratz, Austria, April 2024.
• 鈥榃hat is your One LP?鈥� [with William Ellis] 2023 Prolight + Sound Frankfurt, Austria, March 2024.
• 鈥楾丑别 One LP Project: re-imagining the music based photographic portrait鈥� [with William Ellis] Haarlem Vinyl Festival, Nederland September 2023.
• 鈥楾丑别 Global Reggae Research Project鈥� International Summer Institute for Reggae Studies, Minnesota, USA, May, 2023.
• 鈥楶ositionality in reggae culture research鈥� [with Ben Torrens] in absentia at Subcultures Network International Conference Bristol April 2023
• 鈥楲isteners-in and jazz: the emergence of 鈥榯he audience鈥� in early BBC radio jazz programming鈥� at BCMCR Seminar, February 2023.聽
• 鈥�100 years of music at the cutting edge on the BBC鈥� [with Roger Fagge, Chris Marshall] BBC at 100 Symposium, Bradford, September 2022.
• 鈥楾丑别 now-ness of Miles Davis鈥� Tutu鈥� Rhythm Changes: Jazz Then & Now, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2022
• 鈥楲isteners-in and jazz: the emergence of 鈥榯he audience鈥� in early BBC radio jazz programming鈥� at BCMCR Seminar, February 2023.聽
• 鈥楧iscourses of race in BBC jazz programming 1923 - 1933鈥� Documenting Jazz, Jazz Heritage Wales, Swansea, November 2022.
• 鈥�100 years of music at the cutting edge on the BBC鈥� [with Roger Fagge, Chris Marshall, ] BBC at 100 Symposium, Bradford, September 2022.
• 鈥楾丑别 now-ness of Miles Davis鈥� Tutu鈥� Rhythm Changes: Jazz Then & Now, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2022
• 鈥楤eat Street: 鈥渢he birthplace of reggae, ska and rocksteady鈥� as a site for economic and cultural sustainability鈥�, Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Sustainability and Artistic Eco-systems, Portugal July 2022.
• 鈥�(Re)Presenting British Reggae Culture on Film鈥� [with Ben Torrens], 7th Global Reggae Conference University of the West Indies, Mona, April 2022.
• 鈥楢 question for the BBC Jazz Committee in 1973鈥� Documenting Jazz Edinburgh / Virtual June 2021.
• Opening keynote Documenting Jazz, 探花直播, January 2020.
• 鈥楤ritish Radio Broadcasting and the idea of European Jazz 1962 to 1972鈥� Jazz and Cultural Identity 鈥� In and Out of Europe, University of Central Lancashire, June 2019.
• 鈥樷�淪ince Tommy Atkins Taught the Chinese How To Charleston鈥�: what is jazz in Jack Payne鈥檚 BBC Dance Orchestra 1928-32鈥� Sixth Rhythm Changes Conference: Jazz Journeys, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria April 2019.
• 鈥楻eggae on British Commercial Radio鈥� 6th Global Reggae Conference: Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture II University of West Indies, Jamaica February 2019.
• 鈥楨xploring the documents of the documenting of jazz: understanding the BBC鈥檚 role in making British jazz in the jazz age鈥� Documenting Jazz Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin January 2019.
• 鈥楾丑别 Past as a Legitimising Country: Mapping out the 鈥榟idden histories鈥� of multigenerational music scenes鈥� [with Sarah Raine] Writing the Noise: The Second International Conference of the Subcultures Network, University of Reading September 2018.
• 鈥楧uke Ellington, Radio Remotes, and the Mediation of Big City Nightlife, 1927 to 1933鈥� In the Beginning, Duke: The Three-Day Ellington Summit 探花直播 May 2018.
• 鈥楥o-Production as Research into UK Reggae Culture鈥�. Reggae Futures University Of London, November 2017.
• 鈥楯azz on the BBC in the interwar years鈥� The Impact of Jazz: Britain in the 20s and 30s London Jazz Festival, November 2017.
• 鈥楴egotiating Between Trads and Moderns: BBC jazz radio broadcasting 1947 to 1967鈥�. Rhythm Changes: Re/Sounding Jazz Amsterdam, September 2017.
• 鈥楯azz on BBC Radio 1923 to 1973鈥�. Continental Drift: A Century of Jazz on Record. Edinburgh Napier University / Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival July 2017.
• 鈥楻eggae on British Commercial Radio 1973 to 1996鈥� Reggae Research Network Expanding the Field Symposium Liverpool, May 2017.
• 鈥楳iles On A Second Major 鈥� Locating Late Miles And Warner Brothers Records鈥� Miles Davis and John Coltrane at 90: Retrospect and Prospect University of Surrey, Guildford October 2016.
• 鈥楥reation myths of / on the northern soul scene鈥� [with Sarah Raine] Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places Porto, Portugal July 2016.
• 鈥業maging a British Jazz 1945 to 1975: Jazz on the BBC and the pursuit of cultural nirvana鈥� Rhythm Changes: Jazz Utopia 探花直播, 探花直播 April 2016.
• 鈥楻adio One on the Road: creating that festival spirit for live radio broadcasts鈥� keynote address, Festival Cultures: Media, Place, Music University of East Anglia, Norwich, May 2015.
• 鈥楶opular Music and the BBC: three moments in the history of the BBC鈥檚 relationship with popular music鈥� Salford Music Seminar Salford University June 2015.
• 鈥極n Screen Off Record: Media Discourses of War, Political Filmmaking and Ethical Practice鈥� [with Dima Saber] Artistic practice as an alternative to news media CARISM 鈥� IFP 鈥� University of Panth茅on-Assas, Paris II, Paris June 2015.
• 鈥楾丑别 line between jazz and not-jazz: music broadcasting and the BBC 1923 to 1953鈥� The Jazz Beyond Borders Conference, Conservatory of Amsterdam, September 2014.
• 鈥楾丑别 X Factor vs the Cobweb Collective鈥� keynote address, PopLife: The Value of Popular Music in the Twenty First Century, The University of Northampton, June 2014.
• 鈥楥ity culture and cultural identity and its role in economic success鈥� 探花直播 Made Me 探花直播, 探花直播 June 2013.
• 鈥楻ethinking 鈥楨uropean jazz鈥� through the work of Steven Feld鈥� Rhythm Changes II Conference, Salford University, April 2013.
• 鈥楯azz Britannia鈥� Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, January 2013.
• 鈥楽tomping Ground: how northern soul built a dance community鈥� keynote address, Northern Soul: Community, Memory and Place Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2012.
• 鈥楻ock 鈥榥鈥� Roll: cars, convergence and culture鈥� [with Nick Webber] Popular Music and Automobile Culture, University of Chester, June 2012.
• 鈥楲ive Jazz in 探花直播鈥� [with Simon Barber] Interesting Times for Local Live Music Live Music Exchange, Leeds College of Music, May 2012.
• 鈥楬ow could (and should we) we study music consumption?鈥� [with Nick Webber] Music, Methods and the Social Open University / Curve Theatre, Leicester, May 2012.
• 鈥榃elcome to the third age of radio: understanding radio's present from radio's past鈥� EL I Congreso Internacional 鈥淭he Radio is Dead. Long Live the Radio! University of Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain, November 2011.
• 鈥楲ocating British Jazz Under Milk Wood鈥� Rhythm Changes: Jazz and National Identities Conference, Amsterdam, September 2011.
• 鈥楥ontemporary live jazz scenes in the UK regions鈥� The Business of Live Music Conference Edinburgh, June 2011.
• 鈥楿sing social media in music promotion鈥� Jazz World Meeting Amsterdam December 2010.
• 鈥楴orthern Soul: there鈥檚 nothing northern about it (and while we鈥檙e at it, it isn鈥檛 soul and the dancers aren鈥檛 break dancers)鈥� Rare Records and Raucous Nights conference, November 2010.
• 鈥楧iscursive repertoires of blackness and transatlantic exchange: three moments in the making of British Jazz鈥� Jazz and Race, Past and Present Conference, OU Milton Keynes UK, November 2010.
• 鈥楶ublic Service broadcasting, archives, and cultural television鈥� On, Archives! Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, July 2010.
• 鈥楻adio remotes and the nightlife of the big city鈥� Broadcasting in the 1930s; radio, television and the Depression University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, July 2010.
• 鈥楥reating British jazz archives: experimenting with online media鈥� [with Simon Barber] MeCCSA Conference LSE, January 2010.
• 鈥楯azz and new media鈥� Mediating Jazz Conference Salford University, November 2009.
• 鈥楰en Burns鈥� 鈥楯azz鈥�: popular intellectuals and the vox populi鈥� Leeds International Jazz Conference, March 2009.
• 鈥楳ediating popular music heritage: British television鈥檚 narratives of popular music鈥檚 past鈥� [with Paul Long] IASPM, 2009.
• 鈥楽pecialist music, public service broadcasting and the challenge of new social media鈥� The Radio Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 2009.
• 鈥楯azz Britannia: mediating the story of British jazz鈥檚 past on television鈥� [with Paul Long] Salford New Jazz Histories Seminar, November 2008.
• 鈥楤BC jazz radio listeners online鈥� Leeds International Jazz Conference, March 2008.
• 鈥楤BC specialist music radio listeners online鈥� MeCCSA, January 2008.
• 鈥楳usic programming on college radio in the USA鈥� The Radio Conference, Lincoln University July 2007.
• 鈥楽tudying popular music culture鈥� inaugural professorial lecture UCE, April 2007.
• 鈥楧avid Murray: inside and outside jazz鈥� Leeds International Jazz Conference, March 2007.
• 鈥楥ollege radio in the USA鈥� MeCCSA Conference, January 2007.
• 鈥楥onsuming online music鈥�, MeCCSA Conference, Leeds, 13-15 January 2006.
• 鈥楯azz on UK radio: a historiography鈥�, Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds, March 2006
• 鈥極fcom鈥檚 radio consultation and the future of over-the-air radio in the UK鈥� Radio Studies Conference, UCE in 探花直播, March 2005.
• 鈥楴ational regulation in an age of global radio鈥� Public and Alternative Broadcasting Conference, Seville, February 2005.
• 鈥楾丑别 internet and changes in the structure of the international radio industry鈥� Radio Studies Network Conference, University of Luton, January 2004,
• 鈥楾丑别 political economy of internet radio鈥� the Radio Conference, Madison-Wisconsin, July 2003.
• 鈥楻ethinking audience research through the Radio Research Project鈥� MeCCSA Conference, Sheffield University, January 2000.聽

• I have worked with the BBC and a variety of independent record companies.