Shifting Ground

Shifting Ground seeks to bring together musicians, journalists, industry representatives and academics to explore relationships between music and publishing in all its forms. Our study days and symposia offer exciting opportunities to tap into current concerns about the effects of the internet on the dissemination of music, to explore how our experience of music is shaped by publications relating to it, and to explore more broadly the important issue of the relationship between music and commerce, both in a historical context and in the present. The first two Shifting Ground study days divided into studies of contemporary music publishing and music journalism, while the third was a study of issues in copyright attendant upon the film Anyone Can Play Guitar (Canal Cat Films, 2011). Keynote speakers and key participants in the days have included: Barney Hoskyns, Fiona Maddocks, Alyn Shipton, Jon Spira, Hank Starrs, Barbara Zamoyska, and Stephen Navin, Chief Executive of the Music Publishers’ Association.