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&ldquo;This thesis explores the electronic music and sound created by Delia Derbyshire in the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop between 1962 and 1973. After her resignation from the BBC in the early 1970s, the scope and breadth of her musical work there became obscured, and so this research is primarily presented as an open-ended enquiry into that work. During the course of my enquiries, I found a much wider variety of music than the popular perception of Derbyshire suggests: it ranged from theme tunes to children’s television programmes to concrete poetry to intricate experimental soundscapes of synthesis. While her most famous work, the theme to the science fiction television programme Doctor Who (1963) has been discussed many times, because of the popularity of the show, most of the pieces here have not previously received detailed attention. Some are not widely available at all and so are practically unknown and unexplored. Despite being the first institutional electronic music studio in Britain, the Workshop’s role in broadcasting, rather than autonomous music, has resulted in it being overlooked in historical accounts of electronic music, and very little research has been undertaken to discover more about the contents of its extensive archived back catalogue. Conversely, largely because of her role in the creation of its most recognised work, the previously mentioned Doctor Who theme tune, Derbyshire is often positioned as a pioneer in the medium for bringing electronic music to a large audience. Both perceptions of the workshop and Derbyshire are problematised here, because while they seem to contrast, they are both posited upon the same underlying method of attributing positive value to autonomous music, rather than viewing them on their own specific terms within broadcast media. While it is shown that Derbyshire certainly aspired towards the role of composing contemporary classical music and had an interest in integrating its aesthetics and ideas into her work, she also had an ambiguous relation to it and was not fully able to explore her interest because of her socio-cultural circumstances. Further, the mass of difficult-to-access archived material precludes particularly firm conclusions about Derbyshire’s role in any history of electronic music in Britain — which is itself still very much under construction — with much further research suggested. Thus, the selection of material here is patched together into three different themes raised by her in interview, within contextual frames of relevant aesthetics and techniques, rather than into a coherent chronological, biographical or historical narrative.&rdquo;<ref name=etheses/>
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While the thesis has more references per word than even the WikiDelia but it takes Teresa until note 83 on page 26 to include a terse footnote "Guy, ''Wikidelia''" and it is not until note 710 on page 164 that I become "Guy, Martin, ''[[A Game of Chess]]'', ''wikidelia''". That's it.
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It is inconcievable that anyone would write a PhD thesis about Delia without leaning heavily on the WikiDelia as proved by the plethora of quotes lifted from it and most of the references.  Warned my Mark Ayres that I am "dangerous", and threatened by David Butler not to have anything to do with me, she never contacted me while researching her thesis, lifting the research quietly from here like a schoolgirl doing her homework by copying articles from Wikipedia.
  
 
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Revision as of 10:40, 16 July 2016

Teresa Winter's 2015 PhD thesis was entitled Delia Derbyshire: Sound and Music for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 1962-1973.[1]

Abstract

“This thesis explores the electronic music and sound created by Delia Derbyshire in the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop between 1962 and 1973.”[1]

Credits

While the thesis has more references per word than even the WikiDelia but it takes Teresa until note 83 on page 26 to include a terse footnote "Guy, Wikidelia" and it is not until note 710 on page 164 that I become "Guy, Martin, A Game of Chess, wikidelia". That's it.

It is inconcievable that anyone would write a PhD thesis about Delia without leaning heavily on the WikiDelia as proved by the plethora of quotes lifted from it and most of the references. Warned my Mark Ayres that I am "dangerous", and threatened by David Butler not to have anything to do with me, she never contacted me while researching her thesis, lifting the research quietly from here like a schoolgirl doing her homework by copying articles from Wikipedia.

Availability

  • Available under a Creative Commons licence for free dowload. Yay!

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Winter, Teresa (2015) Delia Derbyshire: Sound and Music for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 1962-1973, PhD thesis, University of York at etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
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