Nicole VickersPhD student
About me
PhD student in Musicology focusing on popular music. Master of Arts in musicology from Uppsala University with the thesis: "Feel it in Your Body: Hybridization of Musical Habitus in Swedish Cultural-Educational Tourism to Ghana". Bachelor of Music with Distinction with a major in World Music from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Primary instrument: euphonium.
At the University of Alberta I worked on several projects at folkwaysAlive! (now the Sound Studies Institute) including the Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music and Look of the Listen: The Cover Art of Folkways Records.
I also translate for and work as the editor of translations for the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's project Swedish Musical Heritage.
Research
I'm interested in rhythm and in particular how we find the beat in music. My dissertation research examines the metric characteristics of Billboard's year-end top 100 lists over the last decade and previously to show how meter is expressed and what aspects of metric consonance & dissonance may contribute to our perception of beat. I am also interested in the physical processes which play a roll in this perception and how we, in movement, express an understanding of the beat, or even add to the rhythmic dimension of music with movement.