Adam Behr

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary and Popular Music, Newcastle University

Adam Behr is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary and Popular Music at Newcastle University. His research covers the connections between music, politics, the music industries, and cultural policy. This has included live music censuses and mapping, examinations of the cultural value of live music, music in the contexts of Covid-19 and Brexit, work on the relationships between music and political campaigns, investigations of digitisation, copyright and musical practice, and the use of music in election campaigns. As well as academic publications on the policy, social and historical contexts of music making, he was written extensively for public facing and web outlets, including The Conversation and The New European.