PIRENNE Christophe
Professeur ordinaire
Faculté de Philosophie et lettres
Département médias, culture et communication
Politiques de la culture et production culturelle
Faculté de Philosophie et lettres
Département des sciences historiques
Musicologie
Musique en Wallonie asbl
Traverses
- ULiège address
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Bât. A1 Politiques de la culture et production culturelle
place du 20-Août 7
4000 Liège
Belgique
- ULiège phone number
- +32 4 3665445
- ULiège Fax
- +32 4 3665736
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences humaines
Biography
Christophe Pirenne, doctor of musicology from the University of Liège, has specialized in the study of 20thcentury ¿popular¿ music. His main field of research is what is called ¿progressive¿ rock, which he approached in his doctoral thesis thatgave birth to the book English ¿progressive¿ rock (from 1966 to 1977)/Le rock « progressif » anglais (1966 à 1977) (Honoré Champion, 2005). He also studied what is called ¿cosmic¿ rock at the Forschungszentrum Populäre Musik of the Von Humboldt University (Berlin) thanks to a grant from the Von Humboldt Foundation. He has just published a vast synthesis of the history of rock music (Fayard, 2011).
Christophe Pirenne teaches music history and cultural policies at the University of Liège and at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve.