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Roger Fagge is an Associate Professor in the Department of History/Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick's Faculty of Arts. His career has spanned decades, focusing on transatlantic cultural and social histories.
Education:
- B.A. (Hons) in Modern History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (1983-1986)
- Ph.D., St. John's College, University of Cambridge (1986-1991)
Roger's research bridges US social history, comparative labor studies, and jazz scholarship. His early work examined cultural/political dynamics in Welsh and West Virginian coalfields, later expanding to analyze American influence on British left-wing thought and intellectual figures like J.B. Priestley. Recent projects explore jazz's everyday aesthetics, hip-hop intersections, and Eric Hobsbawm's jazz methodologies.
His publications reveal sustained engagement with themes of cultural conflict, labor movements, transatlantic intellectual exchange, and music's societal role. Articles span from 1992 to 2020, reflecting evolving interests from coalfield struggles to jazz historiography.
Roger has supervised diverse postgraduate research topics including Woody Guthrie's social meanings, Harlem Renaissance culture, and jazz-hip-hop intersections, while co-organizing the 2014 'New Jazz Conceptions' conference and contributing to the AHRC-funded 'Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics' network (2017-2019).
