Dr Liz Pipe
Previously, Liz had a successful portfolio career in the areas of performance, business and education, working as a musical director, performer, teacher, examiner and business owner. As an Associate Professor at UWL, Liz teaches across a variety of popular music-, music management-, and music education-based courses, and she is the Course Leader for the MA Music and Performing Arts Education programme. Liz is also the Partnerships Lead for LCM, where she oversees the quality of the academic provision at all thirteen of LCM’s national and international partnerships.
Her research interests centre on communication in popular music performance, notably through the use of persona, interaction and gesture. Liz's specialisms also include popular music pedagogy and music education. The findings of her doctoral thesis, The Role of Gesture and Non-Verbal Communication in Popular Music Performance and its Application to Curriculum and Pedagogy, have been integrated into the undergraduate popular music performance curriculum at LCM, allowing students the opportunity to develop their performance skills whilst obtaining a thorough academic understanding of this area of study.
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Qualifications
- PhD (University of West London)
- MMus Performance (University of West London)
- PgCert (Research) (University of West London)
- FLCM
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Memberships
International Society for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)Association for Popular Music Education (APME)Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Teaching
Teaching
As an Associate Professor, Liz lectures on many of LCM’s popular music and music management degree courses, using her vast musical, educational and entrepreneurial skills and experience to teach students at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral level.
Courses Liz teaches on include:
- MA Music and Performing Arts Education
- PhD Music
- BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance
- BMus (Hons) Performance and Recording
- BMus (Hons) Performance and Music Management
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Research and publications
Publications
Pipe, L. (2018) The Role of Gesture and Non-Verbal Communication in Popular Music Performance, and it’s Application to Curriculum and Pedagogy. PhD Thesis. University of West London.
Pipe, L. (2019) 'I See You Baby…' Expressive Gesture in Popular Music Performance. in Moir, Z., Powell, B., and Smith, G. D. (ends) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Bloomsbury Academic).
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Research degree supervision
First Supervisor
They Like it Like That: An Analysis of the Musical Attributes of Repertoire and Music-Making Activities that are Identified as Engaging by Primary School Music Teachers. (Rosalind Cardenas)
Second Supervisor
How can a music talent contest business model support artist development, while remaining a viable investment for music entrepreneurs? (Stefan Lalchev)
Performance in the Grime Studio: How it’s done in the ‘Endz’. Creative interactions in the collaborative composition of contemporary UK hip hop in London. (Caroline Russell)
