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Leslie Gillon

Research and Innovation Lead School iof Journalism Media and Performance

School of Arts and Media

Music Performance, Aesthetics, Music Composition, Turner Prize, Music Improvisation, Music History and Contexts

Les Gillon is a musician, writer and academic based at UCLan. He’s worked as a guitarist, bassist, vocalist, composer and songwriter since the 1970s and has taught performance and composition to young musicians for over twenty years. He records and performs regularly in a variety of ensembles, playing types of music that range from experimental improvisation to traditional British folk music. This site features his current projects Fez, Fire Tower 4 and Ghost School. Together with Professor Ewa Mazierska and Music Industry Consultant Tony Rigg he is a Co-Director of the Music Research @UCLan, which has published a series of edited collections on the future of the music industry and been involved in organising conferences featuring international panels of academics and industry profemore...

PhD. The Uses of Reason in Artistic Evaluation 2016 MA (Dist.) Literature and the History of Ideas 2002 BA Hons (1st Class) Art / Philosophy 1994 Post Graduate Certificate in Education (FE)1995 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2012

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  1. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866, Barker, Jerry, Waite, Damon and Norman, Ron (2004) Fez: Planet Stupid. [Audio]
  2. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 (2017) The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks: Commentaries on the Turner Prize. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-3-319-56365-7
  3. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 and Mazierska, Ewa Hanna orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4385-8264 (2018) The Missing Star of MC Tunes. In: Sounds Northern - Popular Music, Culture and Place in England’s North. Equinox eBooks Publishing, London, pp. 174-189. ISBN 9781781795712
  4. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 (2018) Varieties of Freedom in Music Improvisation. Open Cultural Studies, 2 (1). pp. 781-789. ISSN 2451-3474
  5. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 (2020) Live Music Playbour: a Piece of the Puzzle. In: The Future of Live Music. Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISBN 9781501355882
  6. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866, Partridge, Simon Benjamin orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7712-9940, Duncan, Andrew, Hoyle, Ady, Hodgson, Liz and Cook, Ken (2020) Fire Tower Four 'Day One'. [Audio]
  7. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 (2020) Nostalgia and Simulacra: Blackpool in Song. In: Blackpool in Film and Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 83-99. ISBN 978-3-030-49934-1
  8. O'Riordan, Jules and Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866 (2021) The Artist Manager Relationship. In: The Present and Future of Music Law. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781501367779
  9. Gillon, Leslie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2428-1866, Aveyard, Jon orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0063-6848 and Partridge, Simon Benjamin orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7712-9940 (2021) Balconi. [Performance]