In the third podcast in the series, we focus on the work of the late Jan Fairley, a scholar, journalist, broadcaster, champion of World Music and a long-standing Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Popular Music. The podcast explores Jan’s passion for music and politics, her devotion to Latin American music, and her particular expertise in Chilean music.
We hear from some of Jan's friends and colleagues, and from Jan herself in an interview she gave just before being hoisted onto the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2009 as a participant in Antony Gormley's One & Other public art project.
Click here to listen to our Spotify playlist of music associated with this podcast episode.
Contributors to this episode were:
Professor Sara Cohen, James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and Director of the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool
David Horn, founding Director of the Institute of Popular Music and one of the founders of the international association for the study of popular music (IASPM),
Carlos Arredondo, musician and songwriter
Simon Frith OBE, sociomusicologist and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh
Helmi Järviluoma, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland
Original music composed, recorded and produced by Francisco Carrasco and Esteban Pérez
Jan's friend Galo Ceron played Danza de la Paloma Enamorada by Atahualpa Yupanqui
Podcast editing: Richard Smith, with many thanks to Richard Anderson
The next podcast in the series will focus on the experiences of Chilean exiles and their families in the North of England and the role music plays in their lives.
We are very grateful to the Wellcome Collection for permission to use extracts from Jan's 'One & Other' interview and to the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research for the initial funding that enabled the development of the podcast series.
