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Ioannis Tsioulakis
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# Ioannis Tsioulakis

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# Ioannis Tsioulakis

Dr

- Reader, [School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/school-of-history-anthropology-philosophy-and-politics/)
- [Anthropology and Ethnomusicology](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/anthropology-and-ethnomusicology/)

[https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3733-9385](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3733-9385 "Orcid")

- Email[i.tsioulakis@qub.ac.uk](#)

- Room 03.002 - 13 University Square

  United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

- Popular/folk music and politics\
- Creative industries, production and labour\
- Performance and identity\
- Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and social/political movements\
- Aesthetics, genre and improvisation

2011Research output 2011: 2Research output 2012: 1Research output 2013: 1Research output 2016: 4Research output 2018: 3Research output 2019: 1Projects 2020: 1Research output 2020: 3Research output 2021: 3Research output 2022: 6Research output 2024: 1Research output 2025: 12025

Research activity per year

## Personal profile

### Research Interests

Ioannis Tsioulakis is Reader in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, having joined the School in 2013. He has previously lectured in ethnomusicology at University College Cork and University College Dublin. Ioannis completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Following this, he specialised in ethnomusicology and social anthropology, completing his MA (2006) and PhD (2011) at Queen’s University Belfast. Ioannis’s first monograph, [*Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry*](https://www.routledge.com/Musicians-in-Crisis-Working-and-Playing-in-the-Greek-Popular-Music-Industry/Tsioulakis/p/book/9781138615441) was published by Routledge in 2020. The book looks at the diverse socio-cultural worlds of music-making in the Greek capital with an emphasis on precarity and economic austerity. Ioannis's research has also focused on cosmopolitan aspirations among local music practitioners and the way that they affect social relations, markets of musical labour, and discourses of value and aesthetics in popular music. \

     Ioannis is currently conducting research on the impact of Covid-19 on performing artists, with a number of publications and collaborative projects under development (a preliminary co-written piece with Dr Ali FitzGibbon can be found [here](http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/performing-artists-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) and a piece for *The Conversation* [here](https://theconversation.com/how-greek-musicians-weathered-an-economic-crisis-could-help-uk-performers-handle-covid-fall-out-152125)).\

     Ioannis has also worked extensively as a professional musician (pianist, arranger and composer) and a music teacher (piano and music theory). He is a founding member of the Greek band [*Checkmate in Two Flats*](http://www.matse2ifesis.net/) with whom he often records and performs in Greece and abroad

     Ioannis’s main research has focused on music professionalism and the impact of globalisationon Greek subcultures and their conceptions of musical creativity. His current research is concentrating on musical labour and precarity and the way that it shapes understandings of musical competence, aesthetics, and the social dynamics of local ‘scenes’. \

 

Further research interests include:

- The concept of the ‘social imaginary’ and its relevance to processes of music eclecticism
- The ethnographic study of modalities of discursive resistance among music practitioners
- The relationship between economic/political crisis and ideas of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and eclecticism within popular music-making in Greece and the wider Mediterranean
- Covid-19 and its impact on performing artists in Greece and Ireland

### Teaching

**Undergraduate**

*Being Creative: Music, Media and the Arts* (Level 1, Sem 2 - ESA1001)

*Radical Musics: Understanding Sounds of Defiance across Disciplines* (Level 2, Sem 1 - HAP2000)

*Music and Identity in the Mediterranean* (Level 3, Sem 2 – ESA3012)

*Popular Music Cultures: From Billie Holiday to the Eurovision* (Level 2, Sem 1 – ETH 2009)

 

**Postgraduate**

*Anthropology of Music* (MA Level, Sem 2 - ANT 7013)

*Advanced Anthropological Perspectives* (MA Level, Sem 1 - ANT 7008)

*Advanced Anthropological Methods* (MA Level, Sem 2 - ANT 7009)

 

**Ensembles**

*Experimental World-Fusion Ensemble*

*Greek Music Ensemble*

 

**Topics of MA/PhD Supervision**

- Popular/folk music and politics

- Creative industries, production and labour

- Performance and identity

- Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and social/political movements

- Aesthetics, genre and improvisation

### Particulars

Programme Convenor for Undergraduate Programmes in Anthropology*\*

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## Projects

- [1](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/projects/?status=FINISHED)
  Finished

- ### [R1386HAP: Interdisciplinary study: Social anthropology/Management & business studies](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/interdisciplinary-study-social-anthropologymanagement-business-st/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (PI) & [FitzGibbon, A.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ali-fitzgibbon/) (CoI)

  22/06/2020 → 31/12/2020

  Project: Research

  - Research
  - COVID-19
  - UK
  - Practitioners
  - Freelancer

## Research output

- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Farticle&type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontoperiodical%2Farticle)
  Article
- [4](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fpeerreviewedchapter)
  Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- [2](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fchapter)
  Chapter
- [1](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fbookanthology%2Fbook)
  Book
- 2
  More

  - [**1** Book/Film/Article review](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Fbook)
  - [**1** Special issue](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontoperiodical%2Fspecial)
  - [**1** Other contribution](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fothercontribution%2Fother)

- ### [Sounding imaginaries: the diverse musical aesthetics of the Greek Left’s youth festivals](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/sounding-imaginaries-the-diverse-musical-aesthetics-of-the-greek-/)

  Varelopoulos, D. & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/), 13 Aug 2025, *Essays on Music, Politics and Resistance: Sounding Empowerment.* Lawlor, H. & Scahill, A. (eds.). [Cambridge Scholars](#)

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
- ### [Music work and solidarity politics in the age of Covid-19: from trade unions to grassroots movements](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/music-work-and-solidarity-politics-in-the-age-of-covid-19-from-tr/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/), 01 Oct 2024, *Popular music of the Greek world.* Kallimopoulou, E. & Poulos, P. C. (eds.). Athens: [National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Press](#), p. 71-93

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  181
  Downloads
  (Pure)
- ### [Economic Austerity, Covid-19, and the Music Precariat in Athens, Greece](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/economic-austerity-covid-19-and-the-music-precariat-in-athens-gre/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/), 21 Sept 2022, *The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology .* Morcom, A. & Taylor, T. D. (eds.). [Oxford University Press](#), p. C34.S1-C34.N10 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  - Austerity
  - Work
  - Music
  - Economics
  - Greece
- ### [Improvisation: For 'Invocations of the Tragic, A Glossary of Critical Theory'](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/improvisation-for-invocations-of-the-tragic-a-glossary-of-critica/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/), 22 Dec 2022, Antigones Online Journal.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Special issue

  Open Access
- ### [Making it up: adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/making-it-up-adaptive-approaches-to-bringing-freelance-cultural-w/)

  [FitzGibbon, A.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ali-fitzgibbon/) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/), Oct 2022, In: [European Urban and Regional Studies.](#) 29, 4, p. 461-478 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  - Work
  - Cultural Ecology
  - Transdisciplinary
  - Research
  - Vulnerabilities

  [6](https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85130919062#tab=citedBy)
  Citations
  (Scopus)

  200
  Downloads
  (Pure)

[View all 26 research outputs](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/publications/)

## Prizes

- ### [Faculty Research Initiatives Fund/ Creativity in Crisis: arts in the age of austerity (£2,000)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/faculty-research-initiatives-fund-creativity-in-crisis-arts-in-th/)

  [Chatzipanagiotidou, E.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/evi-chatzipanagiotidou/) (Recipient), [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Recipient) & Murphy, F. (Recipient), 2018

  Prize: Other distinction
- ### [Interdisciplinary Module Initiative Fund, AHSS Faculty](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/interdisciplinary-module-initiative-fund-ahss-faculty/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Recipient), 26 Oct 2018

  Prize: Other distinction

  - Comprehension
- ### [International Council for Traditional Music](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/international-council-for-traditional-music/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Recipient), 2022

  Prize: Election to learned society

  - Nomination

## Activities

- [14](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fconferenceparticipation)
  Participation in conference
- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fconsultancy%2Fcontribution_to_the_work_of_national_or_international_committees_and_working_groups)
  Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
- [3](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fparticipation_in_festival_exhibition)
  Participation in Festival/Exhibition
- [3](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Feditorial)
  Editorial activity
- 11
  More

  - [**5** Publication peer-review](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Fpublicationpeerreview)
  - [**4** Hosting an academic visitor](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fhostvisitor%2Fhostvisitor)
  - [**3** Participation in workshop, seminar, course](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fworkshopseminarcourseparticipation)
  - [**2** PhD external examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fexamination)
  - [**2** Invited talk](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_talk)
  - [**2** Oral presentation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Foral_presentation)
  - [**1** Membership of peer review panel or committee](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcommittee)
  - [**1** Public lecture/debate/seminar](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Fpublic_lecture_debate_seminar)
  - [**1** Research and Teaching at External Organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fresearch_and_teaching_at_external_organisation)
  - [**1** Visiting an external academic institution](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fvisitother)

- ### [Introduction to the Centre for Creative Ethnography at the CFCE's launch](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/introduction-to-the-centre-for-creative-ethnography-at-the-cfces-/)

  [Svasek, M.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/maruska-svasek/) (Speaker) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Speaker)

  28 Sept 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
- ### [Conference on Politics in Music and Song](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/conference-on-politics-in-music-and-song/)

  [Robb, D.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/david-robb/) (Organiser) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Organiser)

  08 Sept 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [BFE-RMA-SMI Study Day ‘Music, Hope and Reimagining Society: the role of music in thinking around Utopia.’](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/bfe-rma-smi-study-day-music-hope-and-reimagining-society-the-role/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Member of scientific committee)

  16 Jun 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [MA Course Music and Power](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/ma-course-music-and-power-2/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Invited speaker)

  23 Feb 2023

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [Popular Music (Journal)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/popular-music-journal-2/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/) (Peer reviewer)

  Dec 2022

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review

[View all 69 activities](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/activities/)

## Press/Media

- ### [How can our culture sector ever recover from COVID-19?](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/how-can-our-culture-sector-ever-recover-from-covid-19/)

  [FitzGibbon, A.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ali-fitzgibbon/) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/)

  29/05/2020

  1 item of Media coverage

  Press/Media: Other
- ### [The rush to streaming - a bad omen for artists](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/the-rush-to-streaming-a-bad-omen-for-artists/)

  [FitzGibbon, A.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ali-fitzgibbon/) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/)

  15/04/2020

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Other
- ### [Performing Artists in the age of COVID-19: A moment of urgent action and potential change](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/performing-artists-in-the-age-of-covid-19-a-moment-of-urgent-acti/)

  [FitzGibbon, A.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ali-fitzgibbon/) & [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/)

  09/04/2020

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [Northern Ireland's Greeks tell of horror at wildfire toll](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/northern-irelands-greeks-tell-of-horror-at-wildfire-toll/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/)

  26/07/2018

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [The Impact of the UK National Elections on Northern Ireland (in Greek)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/the-impact-of-the-uk-national-elections-on-northern-ireland-in-gr/)

  [Tsioulakis, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/)

  09/06/2017

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment

[View all 13 press/media](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ioannis-tsioulakis/clippings/)