Graduate Research Colloquia: Dr Rebekah Okpoti (Liverpool Hope University)

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Abstract

Interventions into Domesticity through The Girly Organist Project. This book project considers spirituality and Domesticity through creative practice interventions. Anne Lister, John Ruskin, Adelaide Watt & Finding Home present new insights into Domesticity. 

Biography

Rebekah Okpoti's research focuses on Musicology, Creative Practice, Culture and Librarianship and how they work through History and with other fields.  It includes Sonic Installation Art, Domesticity, Composition and the Pipe Organ within a variety of communities. Much of her work is interdisciplinary and looks at the relationships between culture and practice across time through platforms such as The Girly Organist  which explores hyper-femininity, feminine identity and ritual in church music.